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Innisfil households ask about the United States from very different starting points: a warehouse supervisor offered a role at a distributor's American site, a shoreline hospitality operator looking at a business for sale, a tradesperson whose employer has just opened a branch south of the border, a commuter whose spouse holds permanent residence rather than citizenship. This page sets out general, plain-language information on TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the Gold Card program so those conversations start from requirements instead of rumour. It is not legal advice and creates no lawyer-client relationship.
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Almost every question that arrives here can be reduced to four or five decisive facts: whose citizenship is involved, who legally employs whom, whose money is committed and to what, and what each family member would actually be doing. Identify those facts first and most of the guesswork about categories disappears on its own.
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Before you accept an American offer
An offer letter written for payroll purposes rarely contains what an immigration filing needs. Read it for the facts, not the enthusiasm.
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A promising conversation with an American company, a broker or a relative is not yet a plan. What turns it into one is writing down the specific things that would have to be true — a listed profession, a corporate relationship on paper, capital that has already left your control, a dependent's exact status — and then finding out whether they are true.
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Write the facts down before the labels
Put the situation on paper in ordinary words: what the work is, who pays for it, which company owns which, where the money came from, who is travelling with you. Categories borrow their names from job titles and marketing, and a description written in category language hides exactly the details an adviser needs to see.
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Test each route against those facts
Read the requirements for the routes that plausibly apply and mark, honestly, which conditions your facts already satisfy and which they do not. A condition you cannot yet evidence is not a formality to be arranged later; it is usually the thing the whole application turns on.
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Turn the unmet conditions into requests
Most unmet conditions belong to somebody else: an employer who must describe your duties precisely, a seller who must open the books, a bank that must trace a transfer, a registry that holds a share record. Convert each gap into a specific written request to a specific person, with a date attached.
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Take an organized file to a licensed adviser
A licensed U.S. immigration attorney or accredited representative can assess facts; nobody can assess a summary. Arriving with the documents, the gaps you could not close and the questions you could not answer makes that appointment about strategy rather than about collecting basic information.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
You are allowed to investigate a route before you commit to it. Reading what a category actually demands, and discovering early that your situation does not fit it, is a good outcome — far better than learning the same thing after a deposit has been paid or a resignation letter has been sent.
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If you live or work in Innisfil and have a U.S. visa question, remote information can help you organize the general issues relevant to your circumstances. No physical office serves this area and no in-person appointments are offered here; everything is handled remotely. This is not a law firm, and formal advice or filing work requires a licensed U.S. immigration attorney.
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A FEW THINGS UP.
My employer says they will 'sort out the paperwork' after I start. Is that normal?
Prearranged employment is part of what several work categories require, so the paperwork is not an afterthought that follows a start date. Before resigning from a Canadian position, ask which specific filing or entry the employer intends, who is preparing it, and what it says about your duties. An employer who cannot answer those three questions has not yet begun the process it is describing as routine.
Can I set up my own company in the United States and work for it on a TN?
No. TN classification is built around prearranged employment with a U.S. employer, and self-employment in the United States is not permitted under it. If you hold an ownership stake in the company that would engage you, that stake must be disclosed rather than left out, and whether any route fits is a question for a licensed adviser who has seen the actual ownership documents.
Our family already spends time in the United States each year. Does that help an application?
Time spent as a visitor does not build eligibility for a work or investment category, and it does not create a connection that any category rewards. Each route is decided on its own conditions — citizenship, employment relationship, committed capital, family status — and a long visiting history neither satisfies those conditions nor substitutes for the evidence they require.
Is there an office in Innisfil where I can drop off documents?
No. There is no physical office serving this area, no local address and no document drop-off. Consultations are remote, and anything shared for a formal filing is handled through the licensed attorney conducting that filing. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and no timeline or approval can be promised to anyone.
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