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Most enquiries that reach this Bonfield page arrive back to front. A category has already been chosen, often by somebody selling something, and the facts are bent afterwards to fit it. The order that works runs the other way: settle citizenship, then settle what the work or the ownership genuinely is, then find the document behind each of those facts, and only then argue about which route applies. Sawmill and forestry crews, log and long-haul operators, welders and fabricators, and farm families all start from that same sequence and end up in different places. This site is general information rather than legal advice, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney handles any formal filing.
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Six routes are set out here: TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the Gold Card. A hydraulic technician, a mill maintenance lead and someone buying a chip-hauling business are not competing for the same category. Each route tests its own narrow set of facts about credentials, corporate structure, capital or vetting, and reading them one after another shows which facts a route cares about and which it simply ignores.
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Before you accept a U.S. offer
For a Canadian citizen, the profession's own credential rule and the wording of the duties decide almost everything.
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Sequence matters most wherever money or share ownership is involved. A share transfer signed before anyone checked the nationality of the owners is slow and costly to unwind. Money moved out of an account that cannot be traced backwards is worse, because no later document repairs a missing origin. Draw the ownership chart and the funding path on paper first, then commit. Employment routes reward the same discipline: agree what the duties will be before a start date is promised to anybody.
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Settle the citizenship column before anything else
Write every traveller's citizenship down, and write permanent residence in a separate column, because the two are different facts with different consequences. Nationality opens or closes TN and E-2 outright, and no amount of good evidence later in the file will substitute for it.
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Describe the work or the ownership in plain words
Say what the person will do on an ordinary Tuesday, or say who will own what percentage and who signs cheques. Titles are unreliable. A description written before a category has been chosen is far more useful to an adviser than one drafted to match a category already picked.
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Attach a document to every fact
A degree parchment, a professional licence, a dated employment letter, a share register, a purchase agreement, a bank trail from origin to destination. Facts with no paper behind them are gaps to close now, not details to explain at a port of entry or inside a petition.
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Order the commitments, then take the gaps to an adviser
Decide which steps must happen before money moves and which can follow. A remote conversation about three specific gaps produces a task list; a general briefing produces nothing. Where a filing follows, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes it from there.
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The six route pages can be read in any order. Each is written around a separate hypothetical situation, so a forester weighing a professional designation, a maintenance lead whose knowledge is genuinely proprietary, a widow comparing two immigrant routes and a household splitting across statuses each appear once, with the same federal rules applied to very different facts. Find the situation closest to your own and compare the questions rather than the conclusions.
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Enquiries from Bonfield are answered remotely by Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton. There is no office in the township or anywhere in the area, and no in-person meetings are offered at any location. A first consultation is free and is used to put your facts and questions in order. Where a formal filing is required, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney handles it. Nothing here is legal advice about your own situation.
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Can I meet one of you in person somewhere in Bonfield?
No. There is no office in the township and no meeting location anywhere in the area, so every consultation is remote. Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton answer enquiries directly, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney is brought in when a filing is actually required.
I run a small contracting business here. Can I move myself to the United States and keep working the tools?
That depends entirely on the route. TN does not permit self-employment in the United States. L-1A expects duties that are primarily managerial or executive rather than hands-on production. E-2 expects the investor to develop and direct the enterprise. None of the three is designed for an owner who intends to spend the week doing the physical work personally.
Does a licence I hold in Ontario count for a U.S. profession?
Not automatically, and the answer differs by profession. Some USMCA Appendix 2 professions turn on a baccalaureate degree, others on a provincial or state licence, and a few accept a diploma plus documented years of experience. Read the rule for the specific profession rather than assuming that any credential in the field will satisfy it.
A broker told me one of these routes is guaranteed if I pay enough. Is that true?
No route is guaranteed by payment. Programs that involve money still test lawful source and path of funds, category eligibility, admissibility and, where relevant, visa availability. Published terms also change, so re-verify them on the official government page before any money moves, and treat pressure to transfer funds quickly as a reason to slow down.
PLANNING SOURCES
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
- Township of Bonfield: municipality reference
- U.S. Department of State: USMCA professional workers
- USCIS: TN NAFTA Professionals
- USCIS: L-1A Intracompany Transferee Executive or Manager
- USCIS: E-2 Treaty Investors
- USCIS: EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
- Official Gold Card program and FAQ
- USCIS: Form G-1055, Fee Schedule
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