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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.
Build a separate evidence account for an additional TN employer
A Nairn and Hyman professional considering another US engagement should identify what the existing authorization covers and what the additional proposal requires. The first employer’s letter is not a general work permit.
Obtain the actual employer, duties, remuneration and temporary period. TN requires Canadian or Mexican citizenship and qualifying work in a listed USMCA profession with its specific credentials. A technical sales assignment does not become engineering merely because the applicant’s first job is engineering. Resolve the substance before asking for a different title.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the second activity accurately
- Use credentials without assuming every profession has the same rule
- Plan the additional authorization
Give each prospective employer an accurate citizenship fact
A Nairn and Hyman resident may be discussing US work with several employers. All should receive the same accurate account of citizenship already held, even if one recruiter assumes Canadian residence is sufficient for TN.
TN principals must be Canadian or Mexican citizens. A Canadian PR card, Canadian degree or pending citizenship application does not satisfy that nationality condition. If the applicant holds Mexican citizenship, assess the corresponding procedure rather than adopting a Canadian process merely because the applicant lives in Ontario.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Separate residence from eligibility
- Avoid inconsistent assumptions between employers
- Update the record after real changes
Explain the difference between a larger payment and a controlling vote
Unequal contributions can coexist with equal governance rights. A Nairn and Hyman E-2 file should explain both instead of using the amount contributed as a substitute for evidence of development and direction.
Identify who approves budgets, hires staff and commits the enterprise. Establish the applicant’s qualifying treaty nationality and at least 50% enterprise ownership by nationals of the relevant treaty country. Then assess actual control; the biggest contribution does not automatically settle equal voting rights or retained partner authority.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read the rights in the entire agreement
- Reconcile the investment at the correct level
- Test the plan the partners have really agreed to operate
Use the founder’s customer handover to test a first-year management plan
For a Nairn and Hyman founder, important client relationships may continue after a US expansion. Explain which contacts are executive decisions and who handles routine fulfilment before treating the new role as primarily managerial or executive.
A new office means the US organization has been doing business for less than one year, not simply that its legal name changed. Show the qualifying corporate relationship and regular, systematic and continuous US and foreign business. Establish a continuous full-time foreign year within the relevant three years, excluding US days without automatically treating brief visits as a break.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the operation’s real chronology
- Apply the narrower foreign-role condition
- Track the actual support after approval
Compare the founder’s employer role with a separate partnership investment
A Nairn and Hyman founder may have both a company transfer proposal and an opportunity to invest with a partner. Do not combine partially established facts from the two arrangements into a supposedly complete immigration case.
L-1 requires a qualifying corporate relationship, continuing business in the United States and abroad, and a continuous full-time qualifying foreign year within the relevant three years. Exclude US days while not automatically interrupting continuity for brief trips. Assess the US managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge assignment. A personal acquisition is not automatically an affiliate of the foreign employer.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the actual transferring group
- Identify the actual investment rights
- Compare the authorized activity, not just the application route
Keep household work plans separate from the number of employers involved
A Nairn and Hyman household may plan around two professional jobs or a sponsored company transfer. More employment proposals for the principal do not change the dependent rules for a spouse or child.
Identify remote contracts, billing work, internships or business roles, not merely job titles. TD does not authorize employment, including work performed in the United States for a foreign payer. A qualifying spouse in appropriate E or L status may work incident to status with the required evidence, while dependent children do not receive that permission.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Write down the activity and physical location
- Record the family facts independently
- Connect immigration milestones to travel and costs
Compare an individual job allocation with an employer’s gift promise
A Nairn and Hyman investor may see a project job report while an employer proposes Gold Card funding. Identify the evidence required from each source and what it leaves unresolved for the applicant.
At least ten qualifying full-time jobs per investor must be supported under the applicable method without double counting. Trace lawful source and path, qualifying at-risk capital and management or policy-formulation participation. General capital is US$1.05 million or US$800,000 for qualifying targeted employment area or infrastructure cases, with statutory adjustment beginning January 1, 2027 and filing-date rules controlling. A project surplus is not approval or a repayment guarantee.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Test the EB-5 investor’s allocation and capital
- Itemize the corporate Gold proposal
- Keep residence and financial rights on different timelines