TN
That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
For the next job. The bold idea. The life you can already picture.
U.S. visa support for Canadians
ready for what’s next.
Hypothetical example: a millwright working for a small Asphodel-Norwood manufacturer is told that the company's American customer would like to hire him directly at its plant, and within a week the household is arguing about mortgages, schools and whether the job is even legal to take. Most of that argument is unproductive because the questions are being asked of the wrong people. Some belong to the employer, some to a lawyer, some to the family alone, and separating them turns an unmanageable conversation into three short ones with owners and deadlines.
These pages describe six frameworks, and they answer different questions. TN concerns prearranged professional employment for Canadian and Mexican citizens in listed professions. L-1A and L-1B move a person inside a company that already exists on both sides of the border. E-2 concerns a treaty national who commits capital to an American business and directs it. EB-5 is an immigrant investment route with a job-creation requirement and a conditional residence period. The Gold Card is a distinct official framework built on a gift to the U.S. government. Choosing among them is not a matter of preference; the facts about citizenship, employment relationship, ownership and money select the framework, and the facts have to be established before anything else is decided.
Choose what brings you here. Leave with a short list of things to discuss—not another long form to fill out.
Nothing can be assessed until the offer says what it is.

Draw three columns. The first holds questions only the employer can answer: is this an offer of employment or a contract for services, who signs the cheque, what are the duties in proportions, is the position temporary or open-ended, will the company file anything. The second holds legal questions: does this work fit a listed profession, what licence is needed, what does the classification permit a spouse to do. The third holds household questions: whether to sell or rent the house, when the school year makes a move workable, what income the family needs. Nobody should be answering out of their column.
Meet the people in your cornerPersonal support.
A practical plan.
No promises we can’t keep.
A verbal description is not a document. Ask for duties, term, salary, employer name and work location on paper.
Employer, lawyer, family. Write each open question in one column only and note who is chasing it.
Classification, licensing and dependants' rights determine whether the plan is possible at all.
Listings, resignations and enrolment deadlines are the hardest to reverse, so they go at the end.
The most useful moment to seek advice is when the first column is filled in and the second is still empty. An offer described in an email as a great opportunity may turn out to be a contractor arrangement, a placement with a third party, or a role whose duties do not match the profession anyone assumed. Those distinctions change everything, and they are discovered by reading the actual documents rather than by discussing the plan in the abstract.
Find your pathwayShneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Asphodel-Norwood households entirely at a distance; there is no office to attend. Send the written offer or corporate documents together with a short note listing what is still unknown and who you have asked. Consultation arrangements and the scope of any review are confirmed in writing before work begins, so it is clear what has been assessed and what has not.
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It depends what the paperwork is. Ask specifically whether the company will file a petition, who is paying, and what the employer expects the worker to do at the border.
No. Performing services in the United States without the right permission is not cured by an application that has been prepared but not granted.
No. These are federal United States requirements and they apply identically across Canada. Only the household's own facts differ.
No. Consultations are remote, documents are exchanged electronically, and meetings are scheduled by arrangement.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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