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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
Lethbridge County U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADAYOUR FUTURE HAS NO ZIP CODE.
A BIGGER LIFE IS CALLING.
U.S. visa support in Lethbridge County. YOURAMERICANDREAM.
Let’s make your move.
✦WORK.
BUILD.
BELONG.
BUILD.
BELONG.
Across the irrigated blocks of Lethbridge County the same conversation repeats at kitchen tables: a U.S. buyer wants the operation's know-how, a grown child has a job offer south of the line, or the proceeds of a land sale are sitting in a corporate account waiting for a purpose. Each of those is a separate legal question. The employee's route turns on a profession and a credential, the operator's route turns on ownership and a year of payroll, and the investor's route turns on where money came from and what it will buy. Treating them as one move with one departure date is the most common way a plan goes wrong.
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THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY FORWARD.THE DREAM IS YOURS.
THE DREAM IS YOURS.
LET’S FIND THE WAY.
This edition covers the six federal routes that come up most often for a rural Alberta household: TN professional admission for Canadian and Mexican citizens working in a listed USMCA profession, L-1A and L-1B transfers between related companies after a qualifying year abroad, E-2 treaty investment in a real operating business, EB-5 immigrant investment measured by capital and ten jobs, and the Gold Card, which is a gift to the U.S. government under an official program rather than an ordinary visa category. Every hypothetical example below is labelled as such. None of them claims that County residents favour any U.S. state, and none of the rules change because an applicant lives in a municipal district instead of a city.
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Match the credential to the listed occupation before travel
A TN case rests on three papers: proof of citizenship, the credential the listed profession requires, and an employer letter that describes real duties.
FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.YOU WEREN’T
YOU WEREN’T
MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
The records that decide these cases already exist on most farms and in most shops: the incorporation documents that show who owns what, the payroll ledger that proves who was employed and for how long, the land title and sale agreement that show where money originated, and the passport that settles citizenship. A remote review starts with those papers rather than with a category preference. It usually takes one reading of the share register to learn whether a family corporation can support a transfer, and one reading of a U.S. offer letter to learn whether the work described is a listed profession or a sales job wearing a professional title.
Meet the people in your cornerTHE BIG MOVE. BROKEN DOWN.FROM “ONE DAY”
FROM “ONE DAY”
TO YOUR NEXT STEP.
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A practical plan.
No promises we can’t keep.
01
Name the person and the activity
For each adult, record citizenship, the exact work or investment planned in the United States, and who would pay for it. A spouse who will keep bookkeeping for the Canadian farm from a U.S. kitchen table has an activity that needs its own answer.
02
Pull the record that carries the case
A professional needs the credential the listed occupation demands and an employer letter that describes duties. A transferee needs a year of payroll abroad and a corporate chart. An investor needs the paper trail from the sale to the U.S. account.
03
Compare the record with the legal test
The heading on an offer, a business plan or a brochure decides nothing. The duties, the ownership percentages, the amount actually at risk and the number of qualifying jobs decide everything.
04
Put the irreversible steps last
Listing land, terminating a Canadian lease, moving money across the border and enrolling children in a U.S. school are hard to reverse. Schedule them after the eligibility answer, not before it.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
None of this requires a decision to have been made. A household can send the U.S. offer, the farm corporation's minute book, a draft purchase agreement and each person's proof of citizenship and ask which of three choices is safest to make first. A remote consultation from Lethbridge County works entirely from those records and returns two lists: facts already settled by the documents, and facts that still depend on an employer, a seller or a government office. That second list becomes the calendar.
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THE FIELD GUIDEBIG QUESTIONS.
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STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
TN DOCUMENTS
Prove the diploma-plus-experience branch for a technical publications writer at a farm-equipment dealer
Read the guide E-2 INVESTMENTSpending sequence for a hay exporter building a U.S. pressing facility from the ground up
Read the guide NEW OFFICEA seed-cleaning company's owner-manager opens the first U.S. depot: what the one-year approval expects
Read the guide LETHBRIDGE COUNTY IS HOME. THE WORLD IS OPEN.SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
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A BIGGER HORIZON.
Before the first conversation, write a plain account of the plan in your own words: who goes, for which employer or business, with whose money, and by when. Rank the questions by urgency. Ask what the consultation covers and where it stops. Immigration analysis does not include Canadian tax on a land or quota sale, U.S. state licensing for a veterinarian or engineer, or whether a U.S. dealership is worth its asking price, and each of those needs its own adviser. There is no local office; consultations are remote.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVELET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
Our farm corporation owns the money from a land sale. Can I invest it under E-2 personally?
Not until it is lawfully yours. Funds held by a corporation belong to the corporation, and an E-2 investor must show the capital is personally at risk. A documented dividend, shareholder loan repayment or wind-up distribution is the usual bridge, and the tax side of that bridge is a separate question.
My daughter has a U.S. offer described as a crop consultant. Is that a TN profession?
Possibly, but the title does not decide it. Agriculturist, which includes agronomist, is on the USMCA list and requires a baccalaureate degree. What matters is whether the duties in the letter are agronomy and whether her degree matches; a territory sales role with an agronomy label fails on the duties.
Can my son-in-law, a Canadian permanent resident, get TN alongside my daughter?
No. TN is limited to Canadian and Mexican citizens, and a permanent-resident card is not citizenship. He may qualify as her TD dependant, which allows study but not work, or he may have a route through his own nationality or employer.
If we hire ten seasonal workers at a U.S. operation, does that satisfy EB-5?
Not on its own. EB-5 counts full-time positions for qualifying U.S. workers, generally at least 35 hours a week, and seasonal or intermittent roles do not meet that definition. A staffing plan built around harvest peaks needs to be redrawn around permanent positions before it is counted.
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