Once the terminal is doing business with staff or a function for her to manage, and she has completed one continuous year abroad in a managerial, executive or specialized-knowledge capacity within the last three years. If the terminal is not yet operating, it is a new-office case with a one-year initial approval.
The terminal's readiness sets the date as much as her record does
Two conditions must be true on the filing date. Her own qualifying year must be complete and continuous, counted from Canadian payroll and duty records, with any time spent in the United States for the company excluded from the count. And the U.S.
subsidiary must be doing business: operating authority, a terminal lease, freight invoices and at least some staff or contracted operators. A subsidiary that was incorporated last month and has a lease but no freight falls under the new-office rules, which require secured premises and a plan showing the operation will support a managerial position within one year, with approval limited to one year and an extension that examines actual performance. Choose honestly; presenting a barely operating terminal as established invites scrutiny of both entities.
Set the household's move, the spouse's licensing and school enrolment from the approval date, not from the terminal's first contract.