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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
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This Lantzville edition examines three illustrative working situations: skilled professional work performed from a home office for an employer or client elsewhere, a small contracting or marine-service business considering work south of the border, and a land-management or forestry consultant whose clients operate in both countries. These are not one question, and they are not claims about what is common in the municipality. Each of the six route pages is built around a different situation so that you can see which single fact — citizenship, duties, corporate ownership, or the origin of money — closes the argument. We are not a law firm, and a licensed U.S. immigration attorney handles any filing.
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Read the routes as tests rather than as labels. TN asks whether you hold Canadian citizenship and whether your actual duties sit inside a profession the treaty lists, with that profession's own degree or licence rule attached. L-1 asks whether a real company group employed you abroad for a continuous year and whether the U.S. job is managerial or genuinely specialized. E-2 and EB-5 ask who owns and directs an enterprise and where the capital came from. The Gold Card asks something different again, and its published terms should be re-read before anyone commits money.
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Before you accept the offer letter
For a Canadian citizen whose work matches a listed profession, two documents carry the case: proof of the credential the profession requires and a letter that describes duties honestly.
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A useful first exercise costs nothing. Write one page per traveller: full citizenship, the last three years of employers with start and end dates, the actual tasks performed rather than the job title, and the ownership chart of any business involved. Then mark which lines you can prove today with a document already in a drawer. The gaps that remain are the real work, and they are almost always the same three: a credential that does not match the profession as the treaty describes it, an employment period that is shorter or more interrupted than remembered, and money whose route into a bank account nobody has traced.
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Separate the person from the business
Some questions belong to the individual — citizenship, degree, licence, duties — and some belong to a company: who owns it, which entity signs, whether a U.S. affiliate already exists. Answer them in two columns. Mixing them produces the common error of assuming a company's U.S. presence gives its staff a status, or that a personal qualification lets a business trade.
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Run the elimination pass
Most situations lose three or four routes immediately. Canadian permanent residence, however long held, does not open TN. A year of contracting for a company is not a year of employment by it for L-1 purposes. A passive minority stake will not satisfy the E-2 requirement that the investor develop and direct the enterprise. Crossing routes off early saves months.
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Attach a document to each surviving claim
A registration certificate from a professional body, a transcript, an employment letter that lists duties and exact dates, a share register, a sale agreement, a bank statement showing where funds actually moved. If a claim has no document, treat it as an open item now rather than as something to explain at a port of entry or in a request for evidence later.
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Bring the gaps, not the conclusion, to an adviser
A remote consultation is far more useful when it starts from the two or three unresolved facts than when it starts from a category someone has already chosen. Where a filing is required, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes it on; nothing on this site is legal advice and no outcome can be promised.
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Nothing here is written to push you toward one answer. The six route pages each start from a different Lantzville situation, so you can read the one nearest your own and then read a second that is deliberately unlike it. That comparison is the point: seeing what a transfer asks that an employment offer does not, or what an investment route demands after the money has moved, is usually what turns a vague plan into a decision you can defend.
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TN DOCUMENTS
The listed profession that needs someone else's letter: a technologist and the supervising professional
Read the guide TREATY INVESTORTwo owners, fifty-fifty: how each documents development and direction
Read the guide NEW OFFICEThe first year is a test: what a new U.S. office has to be able to show at its extension
Read the guide LANTZVILLE IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
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Enquiries from this district are handled remotely by Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton. There is no office on Vancouver Island and no in-person appointment. A first consultation is free and is used to organize facts and identify gaps; where a filing is required, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes it forward. This site is general information and is not legal advice, and no result can be guaranteed.
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A FEW THINGS UP.
I run my consulting work through my own company here. Can I keep invoicing U.S. clients that way on TN?
No. TN requires prearranged professional work for a U.S. employer or under a contract with a U.S. entity, and self-employment in the United States is not permitted in the classification. Invoicing U.S. clients through a business you own and control looks like self-employment, whatever the paperwork calls it. If a genuine employment relationship is not available, the ownership routes ask entirely different questions and are worth reading instead.
Does living in a small municipality change anything about how a case is assessed?
It does not. Every requirement discussed on this site is federal U.S. law and applies identically whatever your Canadian address is. What your location can change is practical: which professional regulator issued your licence, where your records are held, and how you plan travel. Nothing about your municipality is an argument for or against any category.
My employer is small — only nine people. Is L-1 out of reach?
Company size is not a bar. L-1 asks whether a qualifying relationship exists between the Canadian and U.S. entities, whether you completed one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad in the preceding three years, and whether the U.S. role is managerial, executive or specialized. A small employer usually has more work to do proving that a managerial role is genuinely managerial rather than hands-on supervision, but the classification is not closed to it.
Is there an office I can visit on Vancouver Island?
There is not. Every consultation for this region is remote, by video or phone, and there is no local address and no walk-in appointment. That is a deliberate arrangement, not a temporary one, and it is why the intake questions on this site are written to be answered in writing before anyone speaks.
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