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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: a County of Brant accountant with a CPA designation is offered a controller position by a U.S. grain-handling cooperative. His wife is a registered dental hygienist with a full patient list, and their children are twelve and seventeen. The offer letter treats the move as a family relocation; U.S. immigration law treats it as one professional's admission plus three dependants with narrower permissions. The order in which the family resigns, lists the house and enrols the children should follow that legal shape, not the cooperative's onboarding calendar.
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Six routes cover most County of Brant enquiries and each turns on a different fact. TN asks whether a Canadian citizen has prearranged work in a profession the USMCA lists, with that profession's own credential. L-1A and L-1B ask whether a related company employed the person abroad for a continuous year and what the U.S. role really is. E-2 asks whether treaty-national money is committed to a real business the investor will run. EB-5 asks about lawful capital and ten jobs. Gold Card is a gift-based framework published by the U.S. government, not a visa the family can compare price-for-price with the others.
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Let the designation carry the case
For accountants the USMCA accepts a professional designation in place of a degree; make sure the letter describes accountant-level work.
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The accountant's own file is the simplest part. The USMCA entry for accountants accepts a baccalaureate degree or a CPA, CA, CGA or CMA designation, so his designation and the cooperative's letter describing controller duties carry the case. The harder part is everyone else. A TD spouse may live and study in the United States but is not employment-authorized, and dental hygienist is not a listed TN profession, so her licence does not open a door of its own. The seventeen-year-old can attend school as a TD dependant but will age out of that status at twenty-one, which arrives sooner than a four-year degree finishes.
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Fix the principal's category first
Match the controller duties and the CPA designation to the accountant entry before any other decision is taken.
02
Map each dependant's permissions
Write down, per person, what TD allows: residence and study, no employment, and status that ends at twenty-one or on marriage.
03
Decide what the second earner does
Choose between a pause, U.S. study, or a later independent category; do not plan on hygiene work that TD cannot authorize.
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Time the irreversible steps last
Resign, sell and enrol only after the TN admission is confirmed, and keep the cooperative's start date conditional until then.
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A remote consultation works best when the family arrives with the actual offer letter, the designation certificate, passports for all four people and the children's birth certificates. From those we can say which facts are settled and which are still choices. An employer may assume that a spouse's professional licence supplies work authorization; the legal answer is that her route, if she wants one, has to stand on its own.
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Which single document decides a County of Brant engineer's TN, and what the rest of the file only supports
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Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton review County of Brant files by video and secure document exchange; there is no local office and no walk-in appointment. Send the documents through the intake form and say which decision is closest: the resignation date, the house listing or the school enrolment. The review is organized around that deadline so the family is not asked to commit before the principal's admission is confirmed.
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Can my wife keep practising dental hygiene in the United States on my TN status?
No. TD status carries no employment authorization, and dental hygienist is not among the professions the USMCA lists, so she cannot obtain her own TN either. She would need a category that fits her situation, such as study, or an employer-sponsored route outside TN.
Does the cooperative need to file anything before I present myself at the border?
As a Canadian citizen you may apply for TN admission at a U.S. port of entry with the employer's letter, proof of the CPA designation and proof of citizenship; no visa stamp is required. The cooperative may instead file Form I-129 with USCIS, but that is optional for Canadians and takes longer.
Our seventeen-year-old wants to start university in the United States. Does TD cover that?
A TD child may study while under twenty-one and unmarried. Because the status ends at twenty-one, a four-year program will outlast it, so plan a change to student status before that birthday rather than after.
Is the offer letter enough on its own?
Only if it describes the actual controller duties, the professional level of the work, the salary and the length of the assignment, and only alongside the designation and citizenship documents. A one-line letter that names a title and nothing else may fail to establish the required professional employment.
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