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Focused guides for the questions that need more than a quick answer. Each includes a worksheet to prepare your next conversation.
Guides for your next decision.
Build a TN employer evidence brief before drafting the letter
Read & prepare Applicant planningKeep an L-1A new-office record from approval to extension
Read & prepare Applicant planningCompare the E-2 evidence for a startup and a business purchase
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for New York State
Read & prepare U.S. destination planningCanadian RN planning for California
Read & prepareSeven decisions, answered before you prepare.
Wainfleet TN guide: explain a credential issued in an earlier name
A name discrepancy can be addressed through authentic linking evidence. It should not be resolved by editing the diploma or treating a translated name as a substitute for the underlying identity record.
Hypothetical example: a credential predates a marriage or legal name change. Retain the original and genuine records that connect the names. Ask what evidence the actual process needs rather than assuming every difference requires the same document.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Preserve the source and the real name history
- Assess the qualification independently
- Keep the professional assignment in view
Wainfleet guide: distinguish a residence document from evidence of citizenship
An applicant may have several Canadian documents with different purposes and expiry dates. Identify the actual status and nationality evidence without treating a PR card as proof of Canadian citizenship.
A Canadian PR card concerns permanent residence; it does not establish Canadian citizenship. A passport, residence record and employer letter answer different questions. Do not infer the U.S. route solely from a Canadian address or from how long someone has lived there.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Identify what the document actually establishes
- Use the category’s actual nationality rule
- Prepare each traveller’s evidence separately
Wainfleet E-2 guide: distinguish a customer commitment from a sales assumption
A business plan may list signed work, repeat-customer expectations and early conversations together. Explain those differences so the operating proposal can be assessed on its genuine evidence.
Sort the revenue lines by the evidence that supports each one. A countersigned contract with a stated scope, term and price sits in one category; a repeat customer with a purchase history but no forward commitment sits in another; an introductory meeting sits in a third. Hypothetical example: a signed agreement covers a twelve-month maintenance schedule, while the forecast also books three years of consumable orders that the same customer has never agreed to buy. Present the maintenance schedule as contracted and the consumables as an assumption, with the reasoning that supports the assumption set out beside it. Collapsing the three categories into a single revenue figure does not strengthen the plan; it removes the reader’s ability to see which part of the business already exists.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the actual stage of material revenue
- Explain capacity without inventing a quota
- Answer the ownership, control and capital questions separately
Wainfleet L-1 guide: explain which premises the opening actually requires
The evidence should show sufficient premises for the proposed operation, not simply an impressive address or a lease total. Describe access, facilities and the actual business activities they support.
Describe the space in terms of what the business will do in it. Hypothetical example: the group has a desk allocation in a shared workspace, but the plan is to calibrate and repair instruments, which needs a bench, controlled power, secured storage for customer equipment and a loading point. Say what exists today, on what terms and for how long, and say what still has to be arranged, with the quotations or draft leases that support it. There is no fixed square-footage rule, and premises adequate for a design studio may be plainly inadequate for a workshop, so the comparison that matters is between the space and the intended activity. A registered mailing address, on its own, describes correspondence rather than operations.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Connect premises to the operation
- Apply the relevant new-office category
- Keep other qualifying evidence visible
Wainfleet L-1 or E-2 guide: identify what a founder has actually done before the move
Owning a business and completing qualifying employment are different facts. Explain the founder’s individual history alongside the investment and corporate structure before comparing transfer and investor routes.
Build the employment history from what the founder personally did, month by month. The L route asks for one continuous full-time year of qualifying employment with the group outside the United States within the three years before the petition, a qualifying relationship between the two entities, and duties in the United States that fit the category claimed. Incorporation documents establish when the company came into existence and who owns it; they say nothing about when the founder began working for it, in what role, from where, or for how many hours. Payroll records, remittance filings, engagement letters and contemporaneous correspondence do that work. Keep the founder’s actual dates, duties and locations intact even where they are shorter or less tidy than the company’s history.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Build the employment account from actual work
- Assess the investment proposal separately
- Compare the remaining evidence gaps honestly
Wainfleet family guide: identify the relationship before relying on dependent benefits
A shared address, surname or business account does not itself establish a qualifying spouse or child relationship. Prepare the actual civil and identity evidence and assess the proposed category for each person.
Identify the actual relationship and records rather than assuming every partner arrangement has the same immigration treatment. Where recognition is uncertain, obtain an assessment of the applicable rules and facts. Do not change a relationship label merely to fit a dependent category.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Describe the relationship accurately
- Distinguish spouse and child work rules
- Track eligibility beyond the relationship document
- Respect the order of immigrant entry
Wainfleet investor guide: separate government amounts from private and household costs
A combined budget can hide which money is capital, a government gift, a processing charge or an ordinary moving expense. Identify the purpose and governing terms before comparing investor routes.
Only one column of the budget is qualifying capital. The investment itself must satisfy its own conditions: a lawful origin, a documented path from that origin into the enterprise, genuine exposure to loss, and the amount that applies to the project in question, supported by the ten qualifying full-time positions attributable to each investor and by the investor’s engagement in management or policy formulation. Fees charged by advisers, subscription or administration charges levied by a project, and the household’s own moving costs are none of them investment, however necessary they may be. Nor does budgeting a spouse’s or child’s relocation turn that person into a second principal investor; they remain derivatives. Watch too for terms that quietly remove risk: capital carrying a contractual entitlement to repayment, or a promised rate of return, fails outright. The single statutory exception is narrow — the enterprise may reserve an option, exercisable at its sole discretion, to repurchase the interest — and even that remains bounded by the sustainment requirement and the other governing conditions, giving the investor no entitlement to be repaid.
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Explain what EB-5 capital must do
- Explain what Gold Card payments are for
- Keep a bill separate from the immigration outcome
- Separate the government amounts from the household ledger