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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
Chisholm U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADAYOUR FUTURE HAS NO ZIP CODE.
A BIGGER LIFE IS CALLING.
U.S. visa support in Chisholm. YOURAMERICANDREAM.
Let’s make your move.
✦WORK.
BUILD.
BELONG.
BUILD.
BELONG.
Most people who write to us from Chisholm run something rather than simply work somewhere. A beef and hay operation, a custom baling or drainage outfit, a maple and woodlot business, a small equipment-repair shop, a herd-health practice. That changes the first question. It is not which U.S. visa sounds right; it is whether the work, the company and the money would hold up once they are written down and read by an officer who has never met you. This site is general information, not legal advice, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney handles any formal filing.
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CANADIAN ROOTSAMERICAN HORIZONS
Live the next chapter. Work. Build. Invest. Make your move.
THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY FORWARD.THE DREAM IS YOURS.
THE DREAM IS YOURS.
LET’S FIND THE WAY.
Six routes are covered here: TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the Gold Card. Each tests a different fact. TN tests citizenship and whether a job matches a listed profession. The L categories test a corporate relationship and a year of employment. E-2 tests ownership, control and capital at risk. EB-5 tests the source of money and ten jobs. The Gold Card sits outside all of that and rests on vetting and a gift.
YOUR CHISHOLM STARTING POINTMAKE THE FIRST
MAKE THE FIRST
CONVERSATION COUNT.
Choose what brings you here. Leave with a short list of things to discuss—not another long form to fill out.
0 OF 3 READY TO DISCUSS
Before the offer letter is signed
A listed profession is matched by duties and by the degree behind them, so read both together.
FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.YOU WEREN’T
YOU WEREN’T
MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
Farm and rural-trades enquiries tend to split two ways. Some people are employees with a credential — an animal scientist, a veterinarian, a data analyst — and their route turns on what the degree says and what the job description says. Others own the business and want to own something on the other side too, which turns on shares, control and where the funds came from. Reading both halves of this site is usually faster than guessing which half you belong to.
Meet the people in your cornerTHE BIG MOVE. BROKEN DOWN.FROM “ONE DAY”
FROM “ONE DAY”
TO YOUR NEXT STEP.
Personal support.
A practical plan.
No promises we can’t keep.
01
Write the ownership chart before the story
Draw who owns each company, in what percentage, and who signs. Farm businesses often sit across a holding company, an operating company and a personal name. That picture decides more routes than any narrative about the work does.
02
Pin every date to a record
Employment start and end dates, incorporation dates, the date a parcel was bought, the date money moved. If a date lives only in memory it will not survive a petition, so find the payroll slip, the registry entry or the bank line now.
03
Name the activity, not the job title
Describe what the person will do for most of an ordinary week in the United States. Titles travel badly. Officers compare duties with the category, and a title that flatters the role can hurt more than a plain description helps.
04
Bring the gaps to a remote consultation
The useful conversation is about the two or three facts you cannot yet prove. That produces a task list — a letter to request, a ledger to update, a licence to check — rather than a general briefing you already understood.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
Each page here is written around a different hypothetical situation, labelled as such. None of them describes a real client and none of them claims that people in this township have any particular link to any American state. They exist so you can see the same federal rules applied to a nutritionist, a farm manager, a data analyst, a baling contractor, a woodlot owner and a repair-shop owner, and then find the one nearest your own facts.
Find your pathway
YOUR NEXT CHAPTERCANWHERE IT STARTSUSAWHAT COMES NEXT
TRAVELLERA BIG THINKER
PURPOSEMORE POSSIBILITY
FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
THE FIELD GUIDEBIG QUESTIONS.
The complete field guide BIG QUESTIONS.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
VETERINARY CREDENTIALS
The two credentials a veterinarian needs are issued by different authorities
Read the guide MARGINALITY EVIDENCEAnswering marginality when the business would start with only the family in it
Read the guide NEW OFFICE YEAROne year to build something a manager can plausibly manage
Read the guide CHISHOLM IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
A BIGGER HORIZON.
Enquiries from Chisholm are handled remotely by Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton. There is no office in the township, no office anywhere in the surrounding area and no in-person meetings of any kind. Everything happens by remote consultation. Where a formal filing is involved, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes it on. Nothing on this site is legal advice about your own situation.
Let’s connect YOUR NORTH BAY CONNECTION
Let’s talk about your plans.
Arrange a remote consultation to discuss your next steps.
BEFORE THE BIG MOVELET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
Can I meet one of you in person somewhere in Chisholm?
No. There is no office here and no address you can visit, and we do not hold in-person meetings anywhere in the area. Consultations are remote. Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton handle enquiries, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney is brought in for any filing.
My farm is incorporated and I pay myself in dividends. Does that matter?
It can decide a route. L-1A requires one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad, and an owner who has never been on payroll may struggle to show employment rather than ownership. E-2 does not ask that question at all. Bring the T4 slips, or their absence, to the first conversation.
Is a custom-operating business too small to be an E-2 enterprise?
Size is not the test. The enterprise must be real, operating and non-marginal, meaning it should do more than support the investor and immediate family. A contracting business with employees, contracts and equipment can qualify; a one-person operation with no hiring plan is where the marginality objection bites.
Money from a family estate is funding our plan. Is that a problem?
Not in itself. Lawful source and path is the requirement, and inherited money simply moves the tracing exercise back a generation. You will need the will or grant, the executor's accounting, evidence of how the deceased acquired the asset, and the bank records showing the distribution reaching you.
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