TN
That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
New Tecumseth households arrive at a U.S. immigration question from the shop floor, the farm office and the hospital ward alike: an assembly supervisor whose group has opened a plant in the American Midwest, a tool-and-die owner approached by a buyer, a machinist offered a partnership, a nurse with an out-of-province spouse. What follows is general, plain-language information about TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the Gold Card program, written so that a first conversation with a licensed U.S. immigration attorney starts from something more useful than a category name. It is not legal advice and it decides nothing about any individual situation.
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Very few of these cases fail on the whole picture. They fail on one condition — a citizenship that is not what someone assumed, a year of employment that falls a few months short, a shareholding nobody mentioned, a source of money that cannot be traced. Identifying that one condition early is the whole value of reading before acting, and it is usually cheaper to test than to plan around.
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A job offer answers a business question. Work out separately whether it answers the immigration question it will have to answer.

Interest in a U.S. move usually starts as a conversation rather than a file: a plant manager mentions an opening, an American competitor asks whether the business is for sale, a relative suggests a way of joining them. These pages are meant to help a New Tecumseth reader convert that conversation into the handful of verifiable facts that decide whether any route exists, before time and money go into paperwork that a single unchecked fact could make worthless.
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Write down everyone who would move or would be affected, with their citizenship and date of birth beside their name. Households routinely plan around one person and discover late that a spouse cannot work, that an adult child is not covered by anything, or that a second adult in fact has a stronger route than the person everyone has been discussing. Five minutes with a pen at this stage changes more cases than any amount of later effort.
Replace every adjective with a document. Instead of a managerial role, write the decisions the role makes and who signs the organizational chart. Instead of a family company, write the shareholders and their percentages. Instead of savings, write the account and where the balance came from. If a statement cannot be converted into something checkable, it is a belief, and beliefs are exactly where these cases come apart later.
Read the general requirements and pick the one your situation least obviously satisfies, then investigate that one alone. It is the opposite of collecting a general document pile, and it is far faster. If the weak condition holds, everything else usually follows straightforwardly; if it fails, you have saved the cost of preparing all the conditions that were never in question. Expect the weak condition to be about time, citizenship, control or the origin of money.
A licensed U.S. immigration attorney or accredited representative works most usefully from documents and a specific unresolved question. Arriving with a preferred category invites a discussion of that category rather than of your position, and arriving with an unsorted folder spends the meeting on sorting. General information of the kind on this site can shorten that appointment considerably. It cannot replace it, and nothing here promises an outcome, a timeline or an approval.
You are not expected to arrive with a plan. Read whichever route seems closest to your situation, find the requirement you cannot presently answer, and go and get that answer. Occasionally the answer closes the route — an ownership stake that turns a job into self-employment, a child whose twenty-first birthday falls in the wrong month — and there is real value in learning that at the start rather than after a resignation letter.
Find your pathwayIf you live or work in New Tecumseth and have a U.S. visa question, a free initial remote consultation can help put general information into a useful order for your circumstances. No office serves this area and no in-person appointments are offered here; consultations are conducted remotely. This is not a law firm, and any formal filing is coordinated with licensed U.S. immigration attorneys who take responsibility for the advice.
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It can matter a great deal. TN classification requires prearranged employment with a U.S. employer and does not permit self-employment in the United States, so an ownership stake has to be disclosed and assessed rather than treated as a private financial detail. A small passive holding is a different question from a controlling interest, and where the line falls depends on the specific facts. Raise it with a licensed adviser before anything is filed or presented, not after.
Possibly. The requirement is one continuous year of qualifying employment with the qualifying organization abroad within the three years preceding the petition, and employment with a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate outside the United States can count. What matters is whether that entity forms part of the qualifying organization and whether the employment was continuous and in a qualifying capacity, which is a documentary question about payroll and corporate records.
The answer differs by route and is worth asking early. Temporary categories such as TN, L-1 and E-2 contemplate a temporary stay and do not by themselves require giving up ties to Canada. Permanent residence routes such as EB-5 involve conditional permanent residence and a different set of expectations about residence and intent. Because the consequences reach tax, corporate and family arrangements as well as immigration, the question deserves coordinated advice rather than a single answer.
No. There is no physical office serving this area and no appointment location offered here. Any consultation is conducted remotely. Nothing on this page is legal advice, no processing time or outcome can be promised, and formal filings are handled with licensed U.S. immigration attorneys.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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