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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
This Parksville edition uses accommodation and golf operations, residential care and home support, health practices, and construction and maintenance trades as local working contexts. The route pages examine several possible reasons for looking south of the border: a promotion within a chain, a family-business acquisition, a clinician's recruitment, or planning after a business sale. Each of the six route pages works through one situation in detail. We are not a law firm, and any filing is handled by a licensed U.S. immigration attorney.
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The categories are not interchangeable and they do not ask the same questions. One asks whether a job title corresponds to a profession the trade agreement lists, and whether the applicant holds Canadian citizenship. Another asks whether two companies are genuinely related and whether a person spent a continuous year employed by one of them. A third asks who controls an enterprise and whether the money behind it is committed and traceable. Reading two route pages that are unlike each other is usually more informative than reading the one that sounds closest.
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An offer is not a category. Before anything else, check whether the work as described belongs to a profession the trade agreement lists and whether you hold the credential that entry names.

Three misunderstandings account for most wasted effort. The first is treating a job title as a qualification: an internal title such as operations director tells an officer nothing about whether the work matches a listed profession, and the letter describing duties matters far more than the title on it. The second is assuming that a company's American customers give its staff a right to work there. The third is treating a purchase price as the answer to an investment question, when the requirements are about control, commitment, source of funds and whether the business will do more than support one household.
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Write out what the job or the business role actually involves in a normal week: decisions made, people directed, tasks performed personally. Titles travel badly across borders and across companies. Almost every assessment that follows depends on this description being accurate rather than flattering.
Some routes are open only to citizens of particular countries, and permanent residence is not citizenship for those purposes. Write down each traveller's citizenships, including any second nationality, because a passport nobody thought to mention occasionally opens a route that appeared closed.
If a company is involved anywhere, sketch who owns what: shareholders, holding companies, percentages, and which entity would employ or sign. Corporate relationships are proved from registers and agreements, and the sketch usually reveals within an hour whether a transfer route exists at all.
The most productive first conversation is about the two or three things you could not settle yourself: a credential that may not match, an employment period that may be short, a stake whose size may matter. Bring those, not a preferred category.
There is no single order in which to read these pages. Someone weighing a promotion will want the employment route and the transfer route side by side, because the second earner's ability to work differs between them. Someone buying a business will want the treaty investor page and the immigrant investor page, because one is renewable and temporary while the other leads to residence with conditions attached. Each page is built on a different situation so that the contrast is visible rather than asserted.
Find your pathwayConsultations for this area are handled remotely by Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton. There is no local office and no in-person meeting: everything is done by video or telephone, wherever you are. An initial conversation is used to sort facts from assumptions and to identify what evidence is missing. Where a filing is required, a licensed U.S. immigration attorney takes it on. Nothing here is legal advice and no outcome is promised.
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Not automatically. The trade agreement's professional list includes Hotel Manager, and that entry carries its own requirement: a degree in hotel or restaurant management, or a post-secondary diploma or certificate in that field together with three years of experience in hotel or restaurant management. Managing a property without a qualification of that kind, or holding a qualification in an unrelated field, does not satisfy the entry, and the duties in the U.S. role must genuinely be hotel management.
Neither, but it changes where the work sits. Family ownership often means the corporate records are informal — shares issued but never registered, agreements discussed but never signed. A transfer case is proved from those records, so the first task is usually to put the paperwork in order. Once the ownership link between the two entities is documented and both are demonstrably operating, family ownership is no obstacle at all.
It can be decisive. Spouse work authorization differs sharply between classifications: some dependent statuses permit employment incident to status, and others prohibit employment entirely while allowing study. Households where both incomes matter should compare the routes on this point before comparing anything else, because the difference is not a detail that can be fixed later.
There is no office to come to. Every consultation for this region is remote, by video or telephone, and there is no local address and no walk-in service. Documents are reviewed electronically, which in practice is faster than an appointment and means nothing depends on travel.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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