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Focused guides for the questions that need more than a quick answer. Each includes a worksheet to prepare your next conversation.
Guides for your next decision.
Build a TN employer evidence brief before drafting the letter
Read & prepare Applicant planningKeep an L-1A new-office record from approval to extension
Read & prepare Applicant planningCompare the E-2 evidence for a startup and a business purchase
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for New York State
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for California
Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Saskatoon TN guide: test the profession using a real work product
Before assembling a TN file, ask what the employer actually expects the applicant to produce. The exercise should establish the real temporary professional proposal, not select a title and reshape the job around it. The practical decision is whether the employer can describe a real professional engagement without borrowing duties from a different occupation. Begin with a document map that connects nationality, listed profession, qualification, employer control and temporary work plan to their own primary records. TN cannot be used for self-directed services through a U.S. enterprise the applicant controls.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Choose one representative deliverable
- Match the precise qualification instead of buying a generic package
- Test the employer explanation against the contracts
Saskatoon guide: test a citizenship assumption before building the process
The relevant fact is the citizenship the applicant actually holds, not an expected future status or a shared household address. A Canadian permanent resident card establishes Canadian residence status; it is not proof of Canadian citizenship. Canadian permanent residence and U.S. eligibility should be analysed on separate tracks. The decision-maker needs a citizenship record for a TN question, and route-specific evidence for any alternative; neither a PR card nor a future citizenship expectation fills another category’s requirements.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Mark future events as future events
- Ask what supports each alternative proposal
- Plan the actual individual steps
Saskatoon E-2 guide: test the loan against its collateral schedule
The financing label should be checked against the security agreement before money is counted as qualifying E-2 investment. A loan can be important to the purchase while receiving different treatment under the immigration rules. Before funds leave the account, decide whether the transaction creates the right kind of risk. E-2 looks beyond the amount paid: the investor must show treaty nationality, qualifying ownership and direction, capital genuinely committed and exposed to loss, and a real enterprise that is not marginal.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Follow the collateral to its actual owner
- Test commitment and lawful source separately
- Complete the enterprise analysis
Saskatoon L-1 guide: test the launch forecast against the first operating year
A launch forecast describes what the company expects; later records show what actually happened. Keep those records distinct while applying the correct L-1A or L-1B new-office requirements to the actual transferee and organizations. A new-office plan must make a first-year decision visible: will the U.S. operation grow into the required role, or does the evidence show the transferee primarily doing the enterprise’s service work? The answer depends on actual premises, budget, staffing, foreign history and the qualifying relationship.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the qualifying starting facts
- Apply the role-specific new-office test
- Use deviations as evidence to explain
Saskatoon guide: test two business proposals with separate evidence chains
An affiliated transfer and an unrelated purchase can both be real opportunities without sharing the same eligibility basis. Give each proposal its own evidence chain so a fact from one is not silently used to support the other. The central decision is whether the applicant is moving as a qualifying employee within a related group or as a treaty-national investor directing a business. These are not interchangeable narratives. Use separate evidence folders before choosing either route, because control, employment history and capital risk answer different legal questions.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Start with the entity that would employ or engage the applicant
- Test the role and the capital independently
- Compare the actual consequences after the tests
Saskatoon family guide: test each promised activity against the person’s status
A relocation plan may say the family can work, study and arrive together without establishing any individual permission. Replace that broad promise with a record of the actual activity, relationship, citizenship, age and status for each person. A family move requires a separate decision for every person: relationship, age, intended activity, travel timing and the status or immigrant process that supports it. A principal’s business or job evidence is not a blanket work, study or residence permission for relatives.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the work hidden in the household summary
- Test a child’s plan separately
- Separate entry order and age rules from preferred dates
Saskatoon guide: test the financial label before comparing residence proposals
EB-5 capital and a Gold Card gift serve different legal purposes. Compare the requirements, payment sequence and individual eligibility rather than treating two headline amounts as prices for an identical residence outcome. Choose between EB-5 and Gold Card by comparing what the money legally does, not merely by comparing amounts. EB-5 capital is placed at risk in a qualifying enterprise and must support the required job outcome; Gold Card involves a payment by the applicant to the U.S. government after successful vetting and official instruction, not a conventional visa or commercial investment.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify capital and the evidence it must support
- Build the official gift budget person by person
- Keep the sequence and outcome conditions intact