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Bégin applicants planning a U.S. move usually carry four different claims at once: a credential was awarded, a role is managerial, a business will hire, and a government office has asked for something. Each one is proved by a different document, and treating them as interchangeable is what turns a first attempt into a second attempt.
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A TN professional entry, an intracompany transfer, a treaty investment and an immigrant investor filing each rest on a different fact pattern. Read what your existing record already proves — the conferred degree, the written job description, the dated bank trail — before deciding which of them you are arguing.
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Establish what has been awarded
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Attending a convocation is not the same as holding a conferred credential, and a seat on a committee does not describe a day of managerial work. TN entry depends on a profession named in USMCA Appendix 2 and on that profession’s own degree, licence or experience standard, so the registrar’s written confirmation and the employer’s duty statement outrank any job title.
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Name the credential, not the ceremony
Ask the awarding institution to confirm, in its own wording, the credential it conferred and the date it was conferred. Then compare that wording with the profession’s entry in USMCA Appendix 2, which sets a particular degree, licence or experience standard for each listed profession rather than one general rule.
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Attach the duties to one person
A departmental job description is not evidence about an individual. Ask the employer to write what this applicant will decide, supervise and produce, who supervises them in turn, and which qualification the position itself requires. That single paragraph is what a professional or transfer assessment reads before anything else.
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Test which commitments already exist
Money in an account is not money committed to an enterprise, and a letter of interest is not an order. Record which sums have irrevocably left the applicant’s control, on what date, into whose hands, and which document evidences the transfer. Anything still reversible is a plan, not a commitment.
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Answer the instruction that was issued
Official correspondence asks one question by one date. Read the notice itself rather than a summary of it, diarise the response deadline, and check what each family member may separately do: TD dependants of a TN worker may enrol in study in the United States but may not work there.
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A Canadian citizen presents a TN case to a CBP officer at a port of entry, or the U.S. employer files Form I-129 first; there is no TN visa stamp to collect in advance. The work has to be prearranged for a U.S. employer or client, self-employment in the United States is not permitted, and any ownership stake in the hiring company belongs in the file from the start.
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Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Bégin residents remotely, by phone, video call and WhatsApp, since this is a consultation practice without premises or a telephone line in the area. The useful work is turning a vague claim into a named source: the institution that can confirm a credential, the employer who can describe duties, the accountant who can trace funds, and the notice that says what a government office actually asked for. This is a consultancy and not a law firm; licensed U.S. attorneys are engaged where legal representation is needed.
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Does attending graduation satisfy the TN credential requirement?
No. TN eligibility turns on the credential the institution actually conferred and on the standard USMCA Appendix 2 sets for that particular profession, which may be a specific degree, a state licence, or a stated number of years of experience. Ask the registrar for written confirmation of the award and its date, then compare it with the profession’s own entry. Hypothetical example: a Bégin forestry engineer holding a Québec engineering degree and an offer from a Vermont consulting firm needs the conferred degree, an offer letter describing engineering duties, and confirmation of any licence the position itself requires.
I sit on a management committee — is that enough for L-1A?
A committee seat describes a forum, not a set of duties. L-1A asks whether the applicant will primarily perform managerial or executive work, and separately requires one continuous year of qualifying employment with a related company abroad within the three years before the petition. Ask the employer to describe the decisions this person takes without referring upward, who reports to them, and what budget or function they control.
Is there a minimum number of employees for E-2?
No headcount is fixed in the E-2 conditions. The enterprise has to be real and operating rather than marginal, the capital has to be substantial in relation to that business and irrevocably committed and at risk, and the treaty-national investor has to develop and direct it. A small firm with genuine trading income and a credible operating plan can satisfy that; a shell with a payroll projection on paper cannot.
Does asking a question pause a deadline in my case?
Do not assume it does. A request for clarification is not a filed response, and the date printed on a notice runs unless the applicable process says otherwise. Diarise that date, prepare an answer to the question that was actually asked rather than the one you expected, and confirm in the official instructions what the process allows before relying on an extension nobody has granted.
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