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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
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Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Corman Park TN guide: separate the Canadian company from the U.S. services arrangement
Owning a foreign business should not automatically be treated as the prohibited U.S. arrangement. Identify the actual recipient, ownership and professional work before drawing a conclusion. A first review should identify the actual U.S. recipient, the applicant's control rights, the listed profession and the processing route before documents are assembled. The practical decision is whether the evidence describes a prearranged professional job for an employer or an impermissible plan to work for the applicant's own U.S. business.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Name the relevant entities and control
- Preserve the professional qualifications
- Use the genuine agreement and process
Corman Park guide: distinguish family business ownership from personal citizenship
A household may own a Canadian enterprise while its members have different nationalities. Identify each person’s actual citizenship and intended role before using the business history to select a U.S. category. The first decision is whether the proposed principal actually has the nationality and personal facts required by the chosen category, rather than whether the household has a Canadian business history. A useful review creates an individual passport-and-status file for each family member and a separate corporate or investment file for the business facts.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Record the individual nationality evidence
- Assess corporate and investor facts where relevant
- Do not borrow another person’s qualifying facts
Corman Park E-2 guide: connect an asset sale to money actually committed
A future sale can be part of a funding plan without being completed investment evidence. Identify the genuine stage and source before treating the asset’s estimated value as capital available to the enterprise. A first review should turn the funding story into a dated ledger from lawful source to the enterprise, alongside the business purchase or launch documents. The immediate decision is whether the investor can make a real, at-risk commitment now, often through a correctly structured transaction, or should wait until proceeds and evidence exist.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Distinguish valuation agreement and receipt
- Trace the actual funding arrangement
- Retain enterprise and role conditions
Corman Park L-1 guide: establish the group behind a family-funded launch
A U.S. opening supported by relatives still needs the actual qualifying corporate relationship and employee evidence. Financial cooperation should not be presented as affiliation without the necessary ownership and control. A first review should separate the qualifying relationship, the transferee's foreign employment, the physical premises and the first-year operating plan. The key decision is whether the new U.S. operation can support the particular managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge role within the initial period, rather than whether relatives are willing to fund an opening.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the real entities and individual history
- Apply the specific new-office requirements
- Preserve distinct capacity and owner evidence
Corman Park L-1 or E-2 guide: keep employment and family capital in separate columns
A proposal can combine an employee transfer with money supplied by a relative. Identify which actual person and entity satisfies each condition rather than treating a household as one applicant. The first decision is whether the proposed U.S. activity is a qualifying transfer within a related-company structure or an investor-led enterprise using treaty-national capital. Build two separate evidence maps before choosing: one for the worker and corporate relationship, and one for the investor, ownership, funds and business. A household's combined resources cannot substitute for an individual route condition.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Map the L evidence to the proposed transferee
- Map the E-2 evidence to the investor and enterprise
- Resolve the actual relationship rather than combining advantages
Corman Park family guide: distinguish financial contributors from eligible dependents
A relative can help pay for a move without qualifying to accompany through the same immigration case. Identify the actual relationship and intended category before treating a family budget as an applicant list. When the household includes an adult child who works in the family business, the first decision is whether that child has an independent basis to enter or is better placed keeping the Canadian entity operating, because a shared surname and a shared payroll do not create dependant status once a child has turned 21.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Name the real relationships and activities
- Preserve work and study rules
- Keep age and investor-family terms individual
- Respect the order of immigrant entry
- Identify who is not a dependant before the terminal opens
Corman Park investor guide: trace family support without confusing it with the government gift
A private contribution from a relative and an official Gold Card gift are different transactions. Identify the actual source, recipient and case role before treating a transfer receipt as proof of the complete pathway. Before committing to an auction date, decide the route, because EB-5 needs capital ready to commit at filing while Gold Card needs only the processing fee until vetting succeeds; the wrong order leaves proceeds idle or a gift sent before anyone asked for it. Re-check the official terms the week the sale closes.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- For EB-5, explain lawful source and path
- For Gold Card, preserve official sequence and family terms
- Keep financial expectations separate from status
- Distinguish capital, official gifts and residence stages
- Sequence the sale, the fee and the capital in the right order