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That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
Bécancour U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADA
YOUR FUTURE HAS NO ZIP CODE.
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Hypothetical Bécancour situations on this site involve people whose work is tied to heavy industry: a process engineer recruited by a U.S. engineering-services firm, a plant manager whose promotion is only eight months old, an industrial electrician who wrote the control logic for a mixing line, and a maintenance contractor buying a majority stake in a U.S. coatings company. In each one the offer letter, org chart or purchase agreement says one thing and the daily work may say another. Preparation means writing down what the person will really do, who will really direct them, and whose money is really at risk, then checking that record against the classification before anyone books travel or wires funds. None of these examples describes an actual employer or resident.
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THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY FORWARD.
THE DREAM IS YOURS.
THE DREAM IS YOURS.
LET’S FIND THE WAY.
TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 and Gold Card are six separate doors, and each is opened by a different fact. TN turns on citizenship plus a listed profession. The L categories turn on a year of qualifying work inside a related company. E-2 turns on treaty nationality and capital genuinely at risk. EB-5 turns on qualifying capital and ten jobs. Gold Card turns on a government gift under terms that must be re-verified before payment. The first useful step is to decide which single fact your file has to prove.
YOUR BÉCANCOUR STARTING POINT
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CONVERSATION COUNT.
Choose what brings you here. Leave with a short list of things to discuss—not another long form to fill out.
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Prove the profession, then prove the duties
For an engineer or other listed professional, the credential and the actual work are checked separately.
FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.
YOU WEREN’T
YOU WEREN’T
MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
Industrial employers write job descriptions for safety and payroll, not for immigration. A title such as process lead or commissioning specialist can hide the answer to the only question that matters: is the work professional engineering, is it management of other people or of a function, or is it knowledge that exists only inside this company? Ask for the shift schedule, the reporting line and the list of systems the person touches. Those three documents usually settle a classification faster than a rewritten letter.
Meet the people in your cornerTHE BIG MOVE. BROKEN DOWN.
FROM “ONE DAY”
FROM “ONE DAY”
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Name the single deciding fact
Write the one thing the chosen classification must prove: profession, management, company knowledge, treaty capital or qualifying investment.
02
Pull the record that already proves it
A transcript, a dated org chart, a control-system change log or a signed purchase agreement usually exists before anyone drafts a letter.
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Test the plan against the rest of the rule
Citizenship, ownership stakes, offsite placement, marginality and job counts are checked one by one, not assumed from the main fact.
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Fix the dates last
Only after the record supports the route do the start date, the filing route and the family's move get scheduled.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.
YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
A first review should end with a short, specific list. For an engineer that may be the degree transcript and the provincial licence. For a manager it may be the org chart dated before and after the promotion. For an investor it may be the share-purchase agreement, the escrow terms and the bank record showing funds have actually left the buyer's control. Ordering every corporate record in the plant before knowing which route applies wastes weeks and produces a file nobody can read.
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Which record carries a TN engineer: the transcript or the licence
Read the guide CONTROL AND COMMITMENTBuying a majority of an operating U.S. contractor: the E-2 evidence a founder-stays deal needs
Read the guide PREMISES BEFORE PEOPLEOpening a U.S. service and sales office beside a customer's plant under the L-1 new-office rules
Read the guide BÉCANCOUR IS HOME. THE WORLD IS
OPEN.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
A BIGGER HORIZON.
Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton work with Bécancour applicants by remote consultation. Bring original French records together with their translations, and be ready to say who inside the company can confirm each fact: the human-resources contact for dates, the plant director for duties, the accountant for capital. Living in the MRC de Bécancour does not change any U.S. immigration rule, and nothing on this page describes a local office or amounts to an approval.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVE
LET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
Does a provincial engineering licence alone qualify a Bécancour engineer for TN?
Engineer is listed with either a degree or a state or provincial licence, so the licence can be the qualifying credential. The offered work must still be engineering, and the applicant must be a Canadian or Mexican citizen.
Can time spent commissioning a U.S. plant count toward the L-1 year abroad?
Time in the United States for the same corporate group does not break the year, but it does not count toward it either. The year must be built from work performed abroad.
Is a contractor who buys 60% of a U.S. business automatically in a position to develop and direct it?
A majority stake usually satisfies the control element, but the file must also show the investor will actually run the enterprise rather than leave every decision to the remaining founder.
Does a Gold Card gift replace the EB-5 ten-job requirement?
No. Gold Card is a gift to the U.S. government under its own official terms, not an investment that creates jobs. The two programs are different in purpose, risk and process.
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