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Saint-Charles-de-Bourget U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADA
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An offer, an ownership percentage and a bank balance all look like settled facts until you read the clause underneath them: a probationary assessment, a reserved-matters list, a transfer that has not cleared. Saint-Charles-de-Bourget applicants are better served by reading the condition before quoting the headline.
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Take each key document and write down the one condition that could change what it appears to say. Then decide whether that condition is already met, still outstanding, or entirely outside your control. That single column reorders most plans within an afternoon.
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Identify the qualification already required
Read the offer’s assessment condition alongside the actual profession.
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An employer’s own competency assessment sets the employer’s standard, not the immigration one. A listed profession carries its own requirement — a specific degree, or a licence to practise in the state where the work will be performed — and passing an internal test substitutes for neither. Where a licence is required, find out who issues it and how long it takes before agreeing a start date.
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Find the clause under the claim
Read the assessment condition in the offer, the reserved matters in the shareholders’ agreement, the drawdown condition in the loan. Any of these can suspend the very thing the document appears to grant, and each belongs in the plan as a dated open item with an owner.
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State the applicant’s own contribution
Collective decision-making is normal in a company; a petition still has to say what this person contributes. Set out the decisions taken personally, the expertise applied, and the part of the outcome that would have been different without them.
03
Show the path, not just the balance
A tax summary proves income; it does not prove that a particular sum reached a particular enterprise. Connect lawful earnings to the account, the account to the transfer, and the transfer to the investment, with dates that line up and no unexplained intermediaries.
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Keep estimates out of the requirement column
Currency conversions, quotations and advisory estimates all move. Official amounts are stated in U.S. dollars and published in the applicable schedule. Record estimates with the date and rate used, and never let a converted figure stand in for the requirement itself.
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E-2 asks whether the investor develops and directs the enterprise, which ordinarily means at least fifty per cent ownership or demonstrable operational control. A shareholders’ agreement reserving major decisions to somebody else can undercut a percentage that looks perfectly sufficient on paper. Read the voting rights, the reserved matters and the deadlock provisions alongside the share register, not after it.
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Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Saint-Charles-de-Bourget clients remotely, by video, telephone and WhatsApp; there is nothing to visit and no number here to dial. A file can admit uncertainty without losing credibility — what damages it is a confident statement no document supports. We record who decided what, which money moved on which date, and which conditions remain open. We record it as consultancy work, because we are not a law firm; licensed U.S. attorneys advise where representation is required.
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I passed the employer’s skills assessment — does that replace the credential?
No. The employer is testing fitness for its own role, while the immigration standard comes from the profession’s entry in USMCA Appendix 2 and, where practice is regulated, from the state licensing body. Ask which qualification the position requires by law, who issues it, and whether an alternative combination of degree and experience is expressly permitted for that profession.
Must a transferring manager claim unlimited authority?
Overstating authority is a risk, not a strategy. What supports a managerial or executive role is a coherent picture: the functions or staff supervised, the decisions taken without referring upward, the budget controlled, and the support structure that lets the applicant work at that level. Approvals retained by a head office are ordinary and can be described without weakening the case.
Does my 45 per cent stake rule out E-2?
Not on its own, but it shifts the burden onto control. E-2 requires the investor to develop and direct the enterprise, ordinarily through at least half the ownership or through demonstrable operational control. Examine the voting arrangements, board composition, management agreement and any veto rights. Hypothetical example: an agri-food entrepreneur with 45 per cent and a casting vote on operations may qualify, while the same stake with every decision reserved to the majority holder probably does not.
Is the Canadian-dollar Gold Card figure my adviser quoted the official amount?
It is a conversion, not the requirement. Official amounts are set in U.S. dollars and published in the relevant schedule, and the exchange rate applying when a quotation was prepared is not the rate that will apply when money actually moves. Record the date and rate behind any converted figure, and confirm the current official amount at source before relying on a budget.
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