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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
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Files rarely fail on the statute. They fail on a paragraph someone wrote quickly: a duties list that describes a different job, a title borrowed from a Canadian organisation chart, or an offer that promises to explain the arrangement later. The hypothetical Shefford examples in these pages come from work that credibly exists in this township — excavation and landscaping crews, small moulding and finishing shops, veterinary and agricultural services, and residents who commute toward Montréal’s south shore. They are planning illustrations written to show where wording and eligibility diverge. They are not observations about how often anyone here applies, and none of them creates a local rule.
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TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and the Gold Card framework each ask a different first question, and asking the wrong one first is what turns an ordinary file into a refusal. One asks which listed profession the work belongs to. One asks what the applicant actually did abroad for twelve continuous months. One asks whether money has been irrevocably committed and left at risk. Describe the work or the business in plain language before choosing anything, then look for the category whose test that description already satisfies. Reading the categories first and reshaping the description to fit them is the sequence that produces paperwork nobody can defend at a counter.
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Make the written work match the work
Bring the wording of the offer into line with the tasks before the category is selected.
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The recurring problem is distance between a job title and a duties list. A Canadian employer writes coordinator because that is the internal grade, or writes manager because the person is senior, and the U.S. filing inherits a word that the reviewer will test against something else entirely. A listed TN profession is defined by the activity and the credential rule attached to it, not by what a payroll system calls the role. An L-1A claim is measured against duties that are primarily managerial or executive. Ask what the person will do on an ordinary Tuesday, write that down first, and only then decide which word belongs on the form.
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Write the work down in plain language
Describe the tasks, the tools and the reporting line before any category name is chosen.
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Test that description against one rule
Take the plain description to the profession list, the managerial standard or the investment test.
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Ask for the letter to be corrected
Request accurate wording from the employer or seller, and keep the earlier draft with its explanation.
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Name what is still unproven
List the facts no document yet establishes, and decide whether the plan can proceed without them.
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Correcting a description is legitimate; replacing it quietly is not. If an offer letter overstated supervision or understated technical work, ask the employer to reissue it with the reason for the correction recorded, and keep the earlier version in the file. A reviewer who sees two documents and an explanation is reading a normal commercial history. A reviewer who sees one polished document that contradicts a payroll record, an organisation chart or a lease is reading something else. The goal of preparation is a set of records that agree with each other because they are accurate, not because the inconvenient ones were discarded along the way.
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Consultations for this township are remote. There is no local office, no local appointment desk and no address here to visit, and nothing on this site should be read as offering one. What is useful to bring is factual rather than argumentative: the written offer or the draft agreement, the organisation chart with real reporting lines, the credential and any licence with its issuing body, and an honest account of who owns and controls the entity on each side of the border. Family plans belong in the same conversation from the beginning, because a spouse’s intention to work is a separate question with its own answer.
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My employer calls the position a supervisor. Does that decide the category?
No. The word on the letter is evidence of nothing on its own. What decides a TN case is whether the activity falls inside a listed profession and whether the applicant meets that profession’s own credential rule; what decides an L-1A case is whether the duties are primarily managerial or executive.
Can an offer letter be rewritten after it has already been sent?
It can be corrected, and often should be if it is inaccurate. Keep the original, record why the wording changed, and make sure the new version agrees with payroll, the organisation chart and the actual assignment rather than with the category being sought.
Does a job that mixes professional and hands-on work rule out TN?
Not by itself, but the mix matters. The question is whether the prearranged activity is professional work within a listed profession. A description dominated by tasks outside that profession is a genuine problem, not a drafting inconvenience.
If the duties change after arrival, does anything need to happen?
Possibly. Admission was granted on the basis of a described activity, so a substantive change in what the person does can put the basis of that status in question. Raise it before the change is implemented rather than afterwards.
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