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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.
Separate the consulting recommendation from responsibility for operating the business
A Killarney applicant considering TN Management Consultant should ask the client to describe the engagement beyond its title. Identify the advice expected and any responsibility for carrying it out before assembling the qualification file.
Ask what problem will be analyzed, what recommendations are expected and who decides whether to adopt them. Include implementation and ongoing operating tasks that the applicant will actually perform. Do not turn a management job into a consulting proposal merely by describing routine decisions as recommendations.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the deliverable and the decision maker
- Connect the applicant to the listed qualification route
- Confirm the actual temporary professional arrangement
Correct a recruiter’s assumption about Canadian residence early
A Killarney permanent resident of Canada may be approached for a U.S. consulting role because the recruiter assumes residence establishes TN citizenship. Give a precise account of nationality before the employer builds a schedule around that premise.
TN principals must be Canadian or Mexican citizens. A Canadian PR card, business address or record of consulting in Canada cannot replace that condition. If citizenship is pending, label the process accurately and avoid describing a hoped-for decision as completed.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- State citizenship already held
- Ask what evidence supports a different proposal
- Keep recruitment assistance separate from family permission
Read the ownership position that the partner buyout will create
A Killarney buyer should document the enterprise before and after the proposed transaction. The immigration question concerns actual national ownership, operating authority and investment, not simply whether the purchase price has been agreed.
Identify shares or interests transferred, conditions still open and rights retained by the departing partner. Preserve the agreement and effective corporate records. A future closing should not be shown as completed, and an old chart should not continue to describe current ownership after the transaction takes effect.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Date the rights that change
- Test nationality separately from control
- Connect the purchase to a real business
Show how the manager will use the budget rather than merely receive it
A Killarney company planning a U.S. office should connect the proposed manager’s financial authority with the work of the operation. A budget can support the explanation without proving managerial capacity by itself.
Identify the organization or essential function managed, the matters reserved for higher approval and the staff or resources performing ordinary work. Explain the applicant’s discretion within genuine limits. Neither unlimited autonomy nor a particular headcount is a universal requirement; the actual role must be primarily managerial or executive.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the decisions delegated to the applicant
- Apply the new-office foreign-role and development conditions
- Complete the international and alternative-capacity evidence
Compare delegated management with control acquired in a buyout
A Killarney applicant may have authority as an employee in one organization and propose buying ownership in another. Determine which arrangement would support the actual U.S. work before comparing L-1 with E-2.
For L-1, establish qualifying foreign employment and a parent, subsidiary, affiliate or branch relationship, together with the actual managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge role. The group must continue the relevant U.S. and foreign business. A client relationship or permission to spend an unrelated company’s budget does not itself establish the corporate connection.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the source of the employment authority
- Identify the rights and capital behind the investment
- Describe the work under each actual proposal
Match each identity record with the person’s actual intended activity
A Killarney household should not rely on a single family summary when names, ages or intended work differ across documents. Identify each person accurately, then assess the relevant relationship and permission.
Compare the case correspondence with genuine identity and relationship records. Record what differs and seek the appropriate clarification or authentic correction. Eligible dependent family generally concerns a spouse and unmarried children under 21, with applicable immigrant child-age protection assessed on the actual facts. Similar names do not make two people interchangeable in an application. Immigrant child-age protection does not extend the ordinary TD, E or L dependent child age limit.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Resolve discrepancies without changing authentic documents
- Check work authorization independently
- Keep the payment and travel records person-specific
Compare evidence of project spending with evidence of a government payment
A Killarney applicant comparing EB-5 and Gold Card should identify what each financial record proves. Construction expenditure concerns a business project; a government charge or gift belongs to a different process and cannot replace the project’s employment evidence.
EB-5 requires at least ten qualifying full-time jobs per investor under the applicable method. Direct employment generally involves positions requiring at least 35 working hours weekly; independent contractors are not direct qualifying employees, nor are the investor, spouse, sons or daughters or nonimmigrants. A labour invoice alone does not establish the relationship. Current capital is US$1,050,000 generally or US$800,000 for qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure cases, with adjustments from January 1, 2027 based on petition filing date. Lawful at-risk capital and managerial or policy participation remain necessary.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Ask how expenditure becomes the claimed job evidence
- Read the Gold Card charge and gift separately
- Do not close the case when a receipt arrives