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CANADIAN ROOTSAMERICAN HORIZONS

Hypothetical example: a Mission forestry technologist holds a written offer from a U.S. timber-management firm, the sawmill that employs her husband wants to post him to its U.S. subsidiary within the year, and her brother, who runs a berry-packing line, is weighing a purchase across the border. Three plans, three routes and one household calendar. The first task is not paperwork. It is deciding which decision has to come first, because each choice narrows the ones that follow.

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TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card are the routes this edition prepares for. They are governed by federal rules that read the same in Mission as anywhere else in Canada; what changes locally is the mix of employers, trades and family situations that bring people to the question. This page covers the City of Mission on its own terms. It does not fold in the Abbotsford edition, and it does not pretend a regional label makes any rule different.

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Fix the offer before fixing the date

A TN decision follows the employer's letter, so the letter comes first.

Confirm the listed profession and credential ruleGet duties, period and pay in writingChoose port of entry or petitionSet the start date after the decision

Selections stay in this page session; no personal documents are collected here.

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FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.

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Sequencing matters because the routes interact. A TN admission is tied to one employer's offer. A transfer depends on a year that has already been worked abroad. An investment has to be committed before the application is judged. A family member's own plans may rule out the cheapest option for the principal. Write the plans down in the order they must actually happen, with the date each one becomes irreversible. That list, more than any single form, tells you what to prepare first and what can wait.

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List every plan that touches the United States

Include the ones that seem unrelated, such as a spouse's remote job or a child's college application. Each carries its own status question, and a plan left off the list is the one that collides later.

Find the irreversible step in each plan

A deposit, a resignation, a lease, a share transfer. Mark the date it happens and whether an immigration decision must exist before it. Reversible steps can be scheduled loosely; irreversible ones cannot.

Order the applications by dependency

A transfer needs the year abroad already complete; an investor application needs the funds already committed; a family member's route follows the principal's. The dependencies, not preference, decide what is filed first.

Rehearse the refusal

For each application, write down what the household does if it is refused or delayed. If that answer is unacceptable, move the irreversible step later or choose a route with an earlier decision point.

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Do not let an employer's onboarding calendar or a seller's closing date set the sequence for you. Ask which step can be reversed if a later one fails, and which cannot. A signed lease, a resignation, a wired deposit or a school withdrawal each closes a door; an application that has not been filed yet does not. Keep the household's commitments in a second column beside the immigration steps, so nobody discovers a conflict after money has moved or a job has been given up.

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OFFER LETTER FIRST

The offer letter is the document that decides a TN accountant's application

Read the guide WHAT IS AT RISK

In a truck-repair shop purchase, decide what is genuinely at risk before valuing anything

Read the guide ONE-YEAR APPROVAL

A cedar-products producer's first U.S. office is approved for one year, and the plan must survive that year

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A BIGGER HORIZON.

Bring Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton the sequence as you understand it, with dates and dependencies, rather than a stack of documents in no particular order. Consultations for Mission are remote; there is no local office to visit. Commercial, tax and licensing questions belong with the advisers qualified for them, and the immigration plan should state plainly which of those answers it is still waiting on before a step is taken.

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BEFORE THE BIG MOVE

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A FEW THINGS UP.

Should the job offer or the transfer be pursued first when both are possible?

Usually the one whose decision arrives earliest and can be undone most cheaply. A port-of-entry TN decision is immediate and does not require resigning in advance; a transfer petition takes longer and depends on employment history that must already exist.

Can the family move before the principal's status is decided?

Dependants derive status from the principal, so they cannot hold TD, L-2 or E-2 dependant status before the principal holds the underlying classification. Visiting is a separate matter with its own limits; relocating the household ahead of a decision is the kind of irreversible step to schedule last.

Does buying a business early strengthen an E-2 application?

Committing funds is required, but committing them before the plan has been assessed converts a decision into a gamble. Escrow arrangements that release funds on visa issuance exist for exactly this reason; ask about them before wiring a purchase price.

What if two plans in the household need incompatible timing?

Say so early. One plan may need to change route, or one person may need to remain in Mission longer. That is a planning outcome, not a failure, and it is far cheaper to reach before commitments are signed.

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