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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.
Make a corrected employer letter traceable to the actual proposed job
A Hudson professional may receive several versions of an employer letter while the role is being clarified. Keep the final description accurate and identify substantive changes; collecting signatures on inconsistent versions does not resolve the underlying TN question. Before comparing drafts, settle who has authority to state the job. A letter signed by a recruiter or a future colleague carries less than one signed by the officer who controls the position and its budget. Ask the employer to name that person, and route every later version through them.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Keep a clear version history
- Test the duties against the actual profession
- Separate document revision from permission to begin
- Decide which version is the operative one
- Decide who pays for the credential evidence
Separate a passport renewal from proof of a new citizenship
A Hudson resident may be renewing one passport while waiting for a citizenship process in another country. Record the citizenship already held, the document being renewed and any decision still pending. These are different facts when selecting a U.S. route. The practical pivot is which document, on a given date, an officer can read and act on. A certificate in hand settles a question; an application number does not. Build the plan around what exists now, and list separately the decisions that would change it, with the date each is expected.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Use the decision that actually exists
- Identify the category before planning travel
- Track the household individually
- Decide who is the principal before documents are ordered
- Decide what a delay would cost, and to whom
Explain what the business purchase price actually buys
A Hudson buyer may receive a single price covering equipment, stock, goodwill and services from the seller. Break down the actual agreement so the E-2 assessment concerns the enterprise being acquired and the capital genuinely committed, rather than an unexplained total. Ask the seller to allocate the price line by line, in the agreement itself rather than in a side note. Which figure attaches to equipment, which to inventory, which to goodwill, and which to help promised after closing? That allocation drives the tax treatment and the immigration analysis at once.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Reconcile the agreement with the transferred assets
- Keep price and immigration eligibility distinct
- Check the actual control and financing terms
- Decide what the seller keeps after closing
- Decide how the balance of the price will be financed
Connect a delayed equipment delivery to the actual new-office operating plan
A Hudson company may have premises but still be waiting for equipment needed to provide its service. Explain what can actually operate, what depends on delivery and which staffing assumptions need revision. A lease and a shipping estimate answer different parts of the preparation. One decision shapes the whole filing: whether to file now against a plan, or later against a working operation. Filing early buys time in the market and accepts that the first period will be judged on what the office achieved. Waiting costs months but produces evidence rather than intentions. Weigh those against the delivery date, not against the lease.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the operational dependency
- Retain the category-specific evidence
- Keep the company history and assignment accurate
- Decide who funds the office until it earns
- Decide what the extension file will need to show
Clarify who controls the business after a proposed minority share purchase
A Hudson executive may consider buying a minority interest in the U.S. company while arranging a transfer. Document the actual ownership and decision rights after closing. A personal investment does not automatically establish E-2 direction or replace the corporate relationship required for L. Start from what the buyer would be able to decide alone after closing, then read the categories against that. Where operating decisions still rest with the majority holder, the L analysis is the one that fits the facts. Where the buyer would genuinely direct the enterprise, the investor route becomes worth pricing. The share percentage is where this discussion starts, not where it ends. Answer that first.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Draw the actual before-and-after structure
- Keep the L individual and organization tests intact
- Apply the E-2 investor test to the actual rights
- Decide whether the purchase changes the corporate relationship
- Decide where the purchase money comes from
Check the admission record when the family’s travel documents show different expiry dates
A Hudson household may see one date on a passport, another on a visa and another on an admission record. Identify what each document actually governs rather than choosing the latest date as permission for everyone to remain. Work from the admission record outward. That record states the category a person was admitted in and until when, and it governs the stay; a visa governs travel to a port of entry, and a passport governs identity and nationality. Confusing their functions produces a household plan built on the wrong date.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Read each person’s actual record
- Separate eligibility from a school or work calendar
- Check work rights under the category actually held
- Decide what the household will do if one date falls first
- Decide whose income the plan depends on
Keep exchange-rate planning separate from the investor program’s U.S.-dollar requirements
A Hudson household may hold Canadian-dollar savings while comparing EB-5 capital and a Gold Card gift. Establish the required U.S.-dollar amounts and the actual funding path. A preferred exchange rate is a planning assumption, not an immigration decision or evidence that money has arrived. Decide first which of the two the household is actually choosing between, because they answer different questions. One is a capital commitment placed at risk in an enterprise; the other is a payment made to the U.S. government by the applicant. A rate comparison between them measures nothing until that is settled.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Record the actual currency transaction
- Retain EB-5 capital and operating requirements
- Retain the Gold Card payment sequence
- Separate payment from the residence record
- Decide what happens to the money in each case