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Hypothetical example: a product designer living in Roxton Pond is offered a role at a trim and stair-parts manufacturer in the United States, and the employer’s human-resources department tells her the application cannot proceed because she holds a technical diploma rather than a bachelor’s degree. That is a confident statement about a rule nobody has read. The Industrial Designer entry on the professional list agreed in USMCA Chapter 16 is met by a baccalaureate or licenciatura degree, or, in the alternative, by a post-secondary diploma or post-secondary certificate together with three years of experience. Her diploma and her nine documented years may satisfy that entry outright. Work outward from the entry instead of from anybody’s summary of it. Read what it says, note the exact credential it names and whether it names an alternative, then set that text beside the qualification in hand and beside the duties the employer has actually written down. Where all three agree, the file is short and the border conversation is brief. Where they disagree, that disagreement is the file, and it is far better discovered at a kitchen table here than at a counter in front of an officer with a queue behind you.