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Enquiries from Powassan usually arrive with a conclusion already attached: a cousin crossed on TN, a supplier's manager transferred on L-1, a broker mentioned the Gold Card. Each of those categories is decided by evidence rather than by its label, and the evidence they want differs sharply. Four things are worth writing down before a route is chosen: the citizenship printed on each passport, the duties a job actually consists of, the ownership and control of any company involved, and where any money crossing the border came from.
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A supervisor in a meat-processing plant, a millwright at a building-products manufacturer and a pharmacist who owns her dispensary can each have a genuine U.S. option, and it is rarely the same one. Reading the six route pages against one another shows which facts a category examines closely and which it ignores entirely, so a first conversation with an adviser can be about documents that exist or do not exist rather than about which acronym sounds most promising.
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0 OF 4 READY TO DISCUSS
Before you sign a U.S. offer letter
For a Canadian citizen the credential and the description of duties do nearly all the work, and both must be right before travel.
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Two starting points dominate here. Someone employed by a food processor, a building-supply firm, a machine shop or a clinic whose employer already has a U.S. customer, plant or affiliate is asking an employment question, answered by citizenship, credentials and the last three years of duties. Someone who owns a bakery, a lumberyard or a service business on the highway corridor and would rather own something across the border is asking an ownership question, answered by capital, control and the origin of the funds.
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01
Put the raw facts on one page
List the citizenship shown on every traveller's passport, three years of employers with real duties rather than titles, the ownership chart of any company on either side of the border, and the origin of money that would be invested. Avoid naming a category while doing this; written down, the facts sort themselves.
02
Ask what each route would make you prove
TN wants citizenship, a listed profession and its credential. L-1 wants a corporate relationship and a qualifying year abroad. E-2 wants ownership, control and capital at risk. EB-5 wants a set amount, ten jobs and a lawful source. Mark every point where your page of facts cannot yet prove one of those.
03
Name the document behind each fact
A parchment and transcript, a professional licence, an employment letter carrying dates and reporting lines, a share register, a purchase agreement, a bank trail running from origin to destination. A fact with no document behind it is a gap to close now, not something to explain later at a port of entry.
04
Take the gaps to an adviser, not the whole story
A remote conversation about three unresolved points beats a general briefing on categories. It should finish as a task list: which letter to request, which record to reconcile, which corporate step must precede a filing, and whether anyone else in the household changes the order of events.
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Read the route pages in any order. Each is built on a different hypothetical situation — an engineer whose job title is disputed, a general manager whose organizational chart is thin, a lumberyard buyer whose purchase price is mostly inventory — so the same federal rules can be watched working on different facts. Find the situation closest to your own and note where it diverges, because the divergence is what deserves an adviser's time.
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THE FIELD GUIDEBIG QUESTIONS.
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
CONSULTING SCOPE
A consultant's TN survives a change of scope only if the paperwork changes with it
Read the guide E-2 BUSINESS PLANThe business plan is the document that answers non-marginality, or fails to
Read the guide L-1 NEW OFFICESecure the premises before you file, because identifying them is not securing them
Read the guide POWASSAN IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
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Enquiries from Powassan are answered remotely by Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton. There is no office in the municipality, none nearby and no in-person meeting anywhere in this area; every consultation happens remotely. An opening conversation is used to organize facts and find gaps. Where a filing is to be made, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes carriage of it. This site is general information about federal requirements, not legal advice.
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Our plant belongs to a family group that also owns a U.S. facility. Does that make me transferable?
Not on its own. L-1 needs a qualifying relationship between the two entities that corporate records can show, both entities actively doing business, and one continuous year of your own qualifying employment abroad within the preceding three years. Shared family ownership may or may not create that relationship, and your duties must then be managerial, executive, or built on specialized knowledge of the company's own processes.
I have twenty years as a butcher and no degree. Is TN available to me?
TN reaches only the professions listed in USMCA Appendix 2, and almost all of them require a baccalaureate degree or a particular licence, with a few accepting a diploma plus stated experience. Skilled trade experience, however deep, does not match a listed profession. People in that position more often examine ownership routes such as E-2, or an L-1 transfer where the employer has a qualifying U.S. entity.
I would fund a U.S. purchase by selling my share of a family business. Is that acceptable capital?
Lawful source and path of funds is central to EB-5 and is examined for E-2 as well. Proceeds from a documented sale of a lawfully held interest can be good capital, but the shareholders agreement, the valuation, the sale documents, any debt discharged on closing and the movement of proceeds through accounts must all be traceable. Undocumented transfers, not the type of asset, are the usual obstacle.
Can I meet someone in person in Powassan?
No. There is no office in the municipality or anywhere near it and no in-person appointment for this area, so consultations are remote. Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton handle enquiries, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney is brought in whenever a formal filing is involved.
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