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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
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Hypothetical example: in a Haldimand County household, one partner is a large-animal veterinarian who has been offered a position with a practice in a U.S. dairy region, and the other co-owns a grain-drying and storage business with two siblings who now want a sister facility across the border. These are two separate immigration questions with two separate evidence files. The veterinarian's offer is judged on citizenship, the listed profession and the licence; the storage business is judged on who owns it, who would manage what, and where the money for a U.S. site comes from. Deciding which of the two actually anchors the move, and which one only follows, is the first useful decision.
This site covers TN professional work for Canadian citizens in USMCA-listed occupations, L-1A and L-1B transfers inside a qualifying corporate group, E-2 treaty investment in a real operating business, EB-5 immigrant investment with its job-creation test, and the Gold Card, which is a gift-based framework described on the official government page rather than a conventional visa. When a household combines salaried work with a farm or trade business, the practical question is usually which activity produces the strongest file, not which category sounds most impressive.
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The listed occupation and its credential rule decide the case before any letter is drafted.

Write each person's activity on its own line before reading any requirement. A veterinarian employed by a U.S. clinic, a co-owner sent to run an affiliated U.S. facility, a spouse who intends to keep invoicing Ontario clients from a U.S. kitchen table, and a nineteen-year-old who expects a summer job are four different legal facts. The document that proves each one is different too: an offer letter, a corporate organization chart, a client list, a birth certificate. Assemble what already exists, mark what is missing, and resist the habit of describing the whole household as one applicant.
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Choose which person's job, transfer or investment is the case that will be filed. Everyone else is either a dependant of that case or needs a case of their own. A spouse's plan to work is never settled by the principal's approval.
For the principal, gather citizenship proof, the written offer or assignment, the degree or licence the profession demands, and any ownership interest in either company. For the business routes, add the corporate records and the money trail.
TN asks about the listed profession and its credential. L-1 asks about the qualifying year abroad and the corporate relationship. E-2 asks whether committed funds are at risk in a real enterprise. Apply each test to the actual facts, not to the plan as hoped.
Put the resignation date, the farm or business sale, the school year, the lease and the filing or port-of-entry date on one calendar. Decide which of those can be reversed if the immigration step slips, and delay the ones that cannot.
A first consultation works best when the household arrives with two or three candidate plans described honestly and separately, including the one nobody is sure about. Say which decision is closest: accepting the clinic offer, signing a U.S. lease for the storage business, or letting a child enrol in a U.S. school. A remote review can then tell you which plan carries the case and what the other plans must wait for.
Find your pathwayConsultations for Haldimand County residents are remote. Before booking, gather the offer letter or assignment memo, passports or citizenship certificates for everyone, a plain-language description of the business ownership, and any prior U.S. immigration history. Ask what the review covers and what it leaves to an accountant, a business valuator or a state licensing board, because those questions are answered by different people.
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Not automatically. TD status does not authorize work, including managing a Canadian business from inside the United States. The business plan needs its own route, such as an L-1A transfer through a qualifying U.S. entity, or it stays on the Canadian side.
No. The federal tests are the same everywhere in Canada. What matters is citizenship, the profession or corporate relationship, the ownership of the enterprise and the source of funds, none of which depend on the municipality.
No. They are separate categories with separate petitioners or employers. A person can hold only one status at a time, so the household must choose which case the principal files and treat the other as a later or alternative step.
A dependant child may accompany the principal and may study, but TD and other dependant statuses do not allow employment. Any summer job would require the child's own qualifying category, which is rarely available at that age.
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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