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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.
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Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Compare the actual academic record with the professional duties, not just matching titles
An L’Île-Cadieux applicant may see similar words in a diploma title and a U.S. offer. Identify the prescribed qualification and the work actually proposed before treating the matching words as a complete TN assessment. Two elements of this comparison carry fixed dates and one does not. A degree was conferred on a particular day and the transcript says so; a licence or registration carries its own issue and expiry dates; the proposed start date is the only piece anyone can still move. Plan accordingly.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Explain what the education actually establishes
- Apply the listed profession’s conditions
- Preserve the employer and temporary arrangement
- Order the credential work before a start date is promised
Do not apply one parent’s citizenship to the entire household
An L’Île-Cadieux family may have different citizenships across parents and children. Identify each person’s actual nationality and intended category rather than using the principal’s passport as a description of everyone. Documents expire on their own schedules, and a household's schedules are rarely aligned. Before travel is booked, list each person's passport and its expiry, together with any application already pending for a renewal or a citizenship certificate, then work out which of those dates falls inside the intended period abroad.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Establish the principal’s actual basis
- Assess the proposed route and dependent process separately
- Prepare an individual record for each traveller
- Build one expiry table for the whole household
Trace treaty ownership beyond a simplified partnership chart
An L’Île-Cadieux investor may receive a chart showing business names without the ownership details needed for E-2. Explain the actual interests and rights rather than assuming a Canadian registration establishes treaty nationality. Attach a date to every ownership statement before relying on it. A chart shows a structure as somebody understood it on the day it was drawn, while the question being asked concerns the structure at the points the process examines, and those are rarely the same day.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the real ownership evidence
- Keep nationality and direction distinct
- Preserve capital and operating conditions
- Ownership is a position on a date, not a settled fact
A suitable lease does not establish the entire new-office transfer
An L’Île-Cadieux company may secure premises before the employee’s role and foreign history are fully documented. Keep the lease in its proper evidentiary role rather than treating it as proof of the whole L case. The initial period is short and it is examined afterwards on what actually happened during it. Work backwards from that review: settle now what the office will be able to show it did by the date the first period ends, and let the lease take its place inside that plan rather than at the front of it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Connect the premises to actual operations
- Preserve the individual capacity requirements
- Keep the corporate and owner evidence complete
- Plan the first period as the period that will be examined
Identify the actual employment relationship before relying on a long consulting history
An L’Île-Cadieux applicant may have provided services to a company for years while considering a transfer or investment. Assess the actual qualifying employment and rights rather than assuming the length of the commercial relationship proves the L foreign year. The two routes look in opposite directions. One asks what was already completed abroad before the filing; the other asks what has been committed and put at risk for what comes next. A history failing the first question is not thereby improved for the second, and a plan strong on the second does not repair the first.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the real foreign arrangement
- Apply the correct capacity and investment tests
- Keep a proposed investment from rewriting the past
- The two routes ask about different points in time
A spouse’s overseas business does not by itself establish permission to work from the United States
An L’Île-Cadieux household may plan to keep a foreign business operating while accompanying the principal. Assess the activity where it will actually be performed and the spouse’s real status, rather than deciding permission from the customer or company location alone. Timing decides more of this than the company's address does. A foreign business runs on its own calendar of board meetings, filings, renewals and contract signatures, and those dates keep arriving while the family is in the United States. Work out in advance which of them require the spouse to do something, and where they would be when doing it.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify the intended work and category
- Keep children’s rules separate
- Make a practical activity record
- Map the foreign business's calendar onto the period of stay
Separate an adviser’s recommendation from the evidence supporting the investor route
An L’Île-Cadieux applicant may receive a recommendation before reading the full project or official gift terms. Identify what facts support that recommendation and what remains to be established; professional confidence is not an immigration guarantee. Ask when as well as whether. The two routes differ most in how their obligations are distributed over time, and a recommendation comparing only the headline commitment has left out the part a household actually lives with.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Retain the complete EB-5 conditions
- Retain the official Gold Card terms
- Ask for the basis of the recommendation
- Track the actual immigration and financial events