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Households and small management teams around Petit-Saguenay often plan as a unit, but immigration decisions are taken one person at a time. Shared savings, a shared job title and a shared address do not produce shared eligibility, and a file that blurs them invites the same question four times over.
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Write one line per person: what they will do in the United States, under which permission, and what evidence supports it. Where two people share a role or a bank account, say precisely which part belongs to each — the honest answer is almost never a clean half.
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Identify the actual professional services.

L-1B rests on specialised knowledge of the petitioning company’s own product, service, research, equipment, techniques, management or procedures, and not on general expertise the wider industry already shares. Two co-managers cannot file the same account of their duties; each has to describe the knowledge they personally hold and how the proposed U.S. role will use it.
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A consulting contract is not automatically management consulting, and a director title is not automatically an executive role. Take the description of services, compare it against the requirements of the specific category, and be willing to conclude that the label and the category simply do not match.
Where two managers cover one function, write out each person’s own decisions, staff, budget and knowledge. Duplicated paragraphs describing identical authority inside the same company are the fastest way to make both accounts look unreliable.
Money moving between family accounts does not multiply. Trace the funds from their lawful origin to the enterprise, record gifts and loans on their real terms instead of relabelling them, and show ownership at each step so the same capital is never counted twice.
Programme conditions, thresholds and availability change. Confirm the current position at the official source before relying on it, and keep announced or future arrangements clearly apart from the requirements governing a filing made now.
EB-5 counts at least ten full-time positions for qualifying U.S. workers, requires the investor to be engaged in management or policy formulation rather than sitting passive, and grants two years of conditional permanent residence, with Form I-829 filed in the 90 days before the second anniversary. A spouse and unmarried children under 21 may be included as derivatives; a child who turns 21 during the process is a planning problem to raise early, not late.
Find your pathwayShneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Petit-Saguenay families at a distance — video call, telephone or WhatsApp, with nothing here to walk into. In a household case the first useful step is a table: one row per person, one column for the activity they intend, one for the status that would permit it, and one for the document still missing. We are not a law firm; licensed U.S. attorneys advise where legal representation is needed.
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No. That profession has its own entry in USMCA Appendix 2 with its own qualification standard, and the services actually delivered have to match it. Read the statement of work: advisory analysis and recommendations to a client sit differently from operational line work or day-to-day management of the client’s staff, and the file should say which is being performed.
Not credibly. Each petition is assessed on one person’s role, so identical text describing identical authority over the same team raises the obvious question of who actually decides. Write the shared function once, then set out each manager’s own decisions, reporting lines and specialised knowledge of the company’s methods, including where responsibility genuinely overlaps.
It does not. The same funds transferred twice are still one contribution. Show where the money lawfully came from, the path it took to the enterprise, and the terms on which any family member provided it, whether gift or loan. Hypothetical example: a dairy-processing co-manager routing a spouse’s savings through two accounts before a U.S. purchase still shows a single contribution from a single lawful source.
No. Use only the terms the official programme publishes today: the official site describes Platinum as not yet released, so nothing about it belongs in a plan being made now. The Gold Card itself is a gift paid to the U.S. government together with a processing fee — not a conventional visa category, and not an EB-5 investment — and its terms should be re-verified at the official source before any money moves. Derivative planning is a separate question again: a spouse and unmarried children under 21 may be included in an investor filing, but a child who turns 21 during the process changes what is available, so check those dates early.
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