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A signed lease, a delivered machine and a renewed passport each answer part of a plan, and none of them answers whether the work is permitted. Saint-David-de-Falardeau applicants get further by pairing every proposed activity with the specific permission that would allow it.
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List the activities first: visiting a customer, installing equipment, supervising staff, drawing a salary, opening a branch. Then write beside each one what would authorise it. The gaps in that second column are the real work of preparing a case.
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Keep the professional activity clear despite unresolved logistics.

A new-office L-1A petition is approved for one year initially, and it has to show considerably more than an idea: secured premises, a plan the U.S. entity can actually resource, and evidence the business will support a managerial or executive role within that first year. Any extension then depends on what the office did, not on what the plan promised.
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Write what the applicant will physically do in a working week, for whom, and under whose direction. Broad words such as oversight, support or business development cover very different activities, and a category gets chosen from the specific ones underneath them.
Separate what is owned, what is leased, what is on order and what is still being negotiated. Consents from a landlord, a franchisor or a lender that have not yet been given are open items, and a plan assuming them is a plan with a condition attached.
Being present at meetings is not the same as directing a business, and using a system is not the same as holding specialised knowledge of it. Show the decisions made, the policies set and the knowledge built, using records that were created at the time.
A renewed passport is a travel document; it neither authorises employment nor extends a status. Track each expiry separately, keep the identity record consistent across old and new documents, and note which official event actually changes what the applicant may lawfully do.
An asset list is not an ownership record. Equipment standing on the premises may be leased, consigned or supplied under contract, and only what the enterprise owns or has irrevocably committed to buy belongs in an investment figure. Hypothetical example: a snow-vehicle parts distributor opening a first branch in New Hampshire counts the purchased inventory and fit-out, not the supplier’s consignment stock sitting on the same shelves.
Find your pathwayShneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton support Saint-David-de-Falardeau clients from a distance — video call, telephone and WhatsApp, since this practice keeps no room and no line in the area. The distinction we return to most often is access versus authority: which agreement lets you use a thing, which status lets you do the work, and which official step actually moves a case to its next stage. The same distinction applies to us: this is not a law firm, and licensed U.S. attorneys are engaged where legal representation is required.
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State what is known and describe what is not. Give the employer, the duties, the duration and the supervision arrangements, and say plainly that the location terms are still being finalised. An invented address is a false statement in a document that will be checked; an unresolved one, honestly described, is a normal feature of a plan in progress.
Customer meetings can be sales, support, delivery or management, and a calendar does not say which. Describe the decisions taken in or after those meetings, who implements them, and what the applicant controls between meetings. A managerial or executive claim rests on that pattern rather than on the volume of appointments.
Check the paperwork item by item. Leased machines, consigned stock and supplier-owned tooling stay with their owners regardless of who operates them. Your investment is the capital you have irrevocably committed and placed at risk, so build the figure from purchase invoices, transfers and signed commitments rather than from an inventory of what stands on the floor.
No. A passport establishes identity and nationality for travel; permission to work comes from the immigration category and the conditions attached to it. Keep the new document linked to the previous one in the file so the identity history stays continuous, and treat work authorisation as a separate question with its own evidence and its own timing.
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