Canada Immigration

E-2 Visa Business for Sale: What Actually Qualifies in 2026

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). Searching for an E-2 visa business for sale is the most common way Canadian and other treaty-country investors start their move into the United States. Buying something that already trades is attractive because the numbers exist: real revenue, real payroll, real tax returns. What […]

E-2 Visa Spouse Work Authorization: What E-2S Status Actually Allows

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). When a Canadian founder moves to the United States on an E-2 visa, the question that decides whether the move works is rarely about the investor. It is about the spouse. E-2 visa spouse work authorization is one of the few genuinely generous rules […]

E-2 Visa Renewal: Extending Your Status Versus Getting a New Visa

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). Almost every question about E-2 visa renewal starts from the same wrong assumption: that there is one thing called a renewal. There are two, they are run by two different agencies, and the one you need depends on where you are standing when the […]

E-2 Visa Countries: The Full Treaty List and What Nationality Controls

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). If you are researching E-2 visa countries, you are asking the first question that actually decides the case. Everything else about the E-2 visa, the size of the investment, the business plan, the interview, only matters once nationality is settled. The State Department publishes […]

E-2 Visa Processing Time: What the Official Numbers Actually Say

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). Every investor asks the same question before committing money to a United States business, and almost every answer online is a range someone made up. The honest position is that the E-2 visa processing time depends entirely on which of two routes you take, […]

Canadian Citizenship Requirements for Permanent Residents

Legally reviewed by Joseph Mayo, Principal Attorney (Ontario and New York). It is easy to approach the Canadian citizenship requirements for permanent residents in the wrong order. Applicants count three years on a calendar, book a language test, and only later find out that the days they spent in Canada as a student before landing […]

E2 Visa Qualifications: A Complete Guide for Investors

A common E-2 scenario looks like this. A founder has a real plan to enter the U.S., enough capital to launch, and a business model that does not require a warehouse, expensive equipment, or a long payroll on day one. The hesitation usually starts when the legal standard shifts from business reality to evidence. Terms […]

Immigration Law Attorneys: A Guide for US-Canada Moves

A founder needs to move a product lead from Toronto to New York. An HR manager has a U.S. hire starting in Canada next quarter. An investor wants to structure an E-2 move without triggering avoidable delays. In each case, the business problem arrives first. The immigration problem follows fast, and usually with a deadline […]

How to Become a Canadian Citizen from the US (2026 Guide)

Published: June 11, 2026 | Updated: July 21, 2026 | Read time: 11 minutes To get Canadian citizenship from the US, you must first become a Canadian permanent resident, live in Canada for 1,095 days within the 5 years before applying, file Canadian taxes for at least 3 of those years, submit the $653 adult […]