doing business in the US

boatbuster
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:02 pm

 

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I own a Canadian packaging company that specializes in factory relocations and am getting a lot of US companies asking for my services. First, can I accept US contracts, these would usually be 1 week contracts. Second, if I can accept these contracts, how do I get a crew and tooling to the contracts location to complete this contract? I can get all of our needed supplies from US distributors. Can we legally go there and perform the work or can my company get some sort of annual visa for any crew member or?

You can see what we do at dcmpackaging com

Thanks for any help!

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Steven
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Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:23 pm

 

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From the sounds of it they're unskilled workers (for the purposes of US law) so I think you're looking at having to start a dedicated US branch with US employees. Management staff can get L-1A entry, "specialized skill" workers can get L-1B, or you can get an L-1 blanket visa to cover all of them (which is way cheaper with lots of staff movements), but you'd have to have a US branch to get L-1.

That isn't that difficult for the purposes of simply applying for the visa (you simply need a US corporation set up for example), but obviously hiring US workers to cover the other jobs is a big deal.
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boatbuster
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:14 pm

 

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Thanks Steve! I will look into this ASAP.

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