TN
That U.S. opportunity is worth a conversation. Explore professional work through the TN pathway.
La Pêche U.S. VISA SUPPORT · CANADA
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CANADIAN ROOTSAMERICAN HORIZONS
Hypothetical example: three La Pêche residents face different status clocks—a physiotherapist who assumes a TN admission is permanent once granted; the managing director of a La Pêche coffee-roasting company who is in the fifth year of an L-1A and has never counted toward the seven-year limit; and a La Pêche caterer who has renewed an E-2 visa twice and only now asks how the family becomes permanent. Each category on this site comes with a clock: an admission period, a renewal mechanism, a ceiling or the absence of one, and a set of events that end the status early. Residents who plan the exit and the renewals at the outset avoid the two expensive surprises, which are discovering a cap in year six and discovering that a renewable status was never a path to a green card.
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THE DREAM IS YOURS.
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La Pêche households include tradespeople who work on both sides of the river, hospitality and food businesses that serve visitors, farms, and people who work remotely for distant employers. When one of them considers TN, L-1A, L-1B, E-2, EB-5 or the Gold Card, the first question is usually eligibility. This edition asks the second question first: for how long, and then what. A three-year TN, a one-year new-office L-1, a two-year E-2 admission, a two-year conditional green card and a permanent residence with a residence obligation are different promises, and the household’s plans for a house, a school and a Canadian business should match the promise actually made. Nothing here suggests La Pêche residents have a particular U.S. destination or face different federal rules.
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Match the letter to the calendar
A TN lasts as long as the engagement in the employer letter, up to three years at a time.
FOR PEOPLE WHO SEE A LITTLE FURTHER.
YOU WEREN’T
YOU WEREN’T
MADE TO
THINK SMALL.
Durations are set by regulation and by the documents in the file. A TN admission runs for the period in the employer letter, up to three years, and is renewed by a new application. An L-1 is admitted for up to three years initially, one year for a new office, and extended in two-year steps to seven years for managers and five for specialized-knowledge staff. E-2 entries last two years each and can be repeated while the enterprise qualifies. EB-5 produces a two-year conditional residence followed by a petition to remove conditions. Permanent residence itself has no expiry but can be lost through abandonment. Reading those clocks together is the planning task.
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FROM “ONE DAY”
FROM “ONE DAY”
TO YOUR NEXT STEP.
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A practical plan.
No promises we can’t keep.
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Map each category’s clock
Write down the initial period, the renewal mechanism and any ceiling for every category the household is considering.
02
List what ends it early
Identify the events, such as a job change, a sale of the business or a child’s birthday, that would terminate status before the ceiling.
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Decide the long-term destination
If permanent residence is the goal, choose a category that leads there or plan the second step now rather than in year five.
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Calendar the filings
Set reminders for extensions, the I-829 window, passport expiries and the twenty-first birthdays before the first entry.
A LITTLE CLARITY GOES A LONG WAY.
YOUR FUTURE.
YOUR FUTURE.
NOW BOARDING.
What ends a status is as important as how long it lasts. A TN ends when the employment ends, and a change of employer requires a new application. An L-1 ends when the corporate relationship breaks or the foreign company stops doing business. An E-2 may cease to qualify when the investor sells the enterprise, when the enterprise loses its treaty nationality, when the investor has neither at least 50 percent ownership nor operational control, or when the business becomes marginal. Conditional residence ends if the I-829 petition is not filed in its window. Family members lose derivative status when the principal loses hers, when a marriage ends or when a child turns 21. Plan the household around those events rather than around the first approval.
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YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
CANWHERE IT STARTS
USAWHAT COMES NEXT
TRAVELLERA BIG THINKER
PURPOSEMORE POSSIBILITY
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THE FIELD GUIDE
BIG QUESTIONS.
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BIG QUESTIONS.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS.
THE LETTER SETS THE CLOCK
The end date in the letter: TN documents for a La Pêche forester’s two-year U.S. inventory contract
Read the guide ASSETS COUNT AT FAIR VALUEShipping the equipment south: in-kind contributions in a La Pêche mason’s E-2 investment
Read the guide ONE YEAR TO SHOW RESULTSA La Pêche distillery’s first U.S. office: the one-year approval and what the extension must prove
Read the guide LA PÊCHE IS HOME. THE WORLD IS
OPEN.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
SUPPORT THAT REACHES YOU.
A BIGGER HORIZON.
This edition covers the municipality of La Pêche within the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais. Shneur Herman, Jo Kubti and Alexander Paton advise remotely by video and secure document exchange; there is no local office and no walk-in service. Before a first conversation, note the dates of every previous U.S. admission, the expiry on any current status and the ages of the children. The scenarios below are hypothetical and describe no client, and because durations depend on the category and the facts of each file, a neighbour’s timeline is not a prediction of yours.
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BEFORE THE BIG MOVE
LET’S CLEAR
LET’S CLEAR
A FEW THINGS UP.
How long does a TN admission last for a La Pêche professional?
Up to three years per admission, set by the employer letter; it can be renewed at the border or by petition indefinitely in principle, but each renewal requires continuing temporary intent and a continuing professional job.
Is there a maximum time on L-1?
Yes: seven years for L-1A managers and executives and five years for L-1B specialized-knowledge employees. The calculation generally counts time physically present in the United States in L status and applicable H time, while documented days abroad may be recaptured; after reaching the cap, the person ordinarily must remain abroad for a year before a new L-1 or H-1B period.
Does E-2 ever expire for good?
There is no cap on renewals; each admission is two years and the visa is renewed while the enterprise continues to qualify, but E-2 offers no route of its own to permanent residence.
When does an EB-5 green card become permanent?
After the two-year conditional period, when USCIS approves the Form I-829 petition filed in the ninety days before the second anniversary showing the investment sustained and the jobs created.
PLANNING SOURCES
Editorial source review: 2026-09-07.
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