Read the general professional work overview
When one proposed job involves several locations, organize the factual arrangement before asking how it should be handled. A schedule can explain where work occurs, who directs it and what duties are performed. It is not a legal determination that every location or later change is already authorized.
Map locations to actual duties
For each planned workplace, describe the activity, expected frequency and responsible employer contact. Separate confirmed arrangements from possibilities. If a customer site is involved, distinguish the customer’s premises from the applicant’s employer. Avoid implying that an address list alone explains the underlying employment relationship.
Reconcile travel language across the file
Compare the schedule with the employer letter and offer. General phrases about travel can obscure a materially different arrangement, so ask for clarification where needed. A hypothetical occasional meeting and a regular on-site assignment should not be described as the same thing merely because both involve travel.
Create a change-reporting habit
Keep a record of proposed changes to work location, duties or employer arrangements and bring them to the appropriate reviewer before relying on existing permission. The immigration effect is a separate assessment. An internal operations update should not be treated as confirmation that the immigration file requires no action.
Draft the schedule last
Order of drafting matters more than format. The schedule should be written after the offer letter and the credential evidence are final, because its function is to explain an employment arrangement those documents have already established. A schedule drafted first tends to become a list of addresses in search of a job description, and the gaps in it get filled with assumptions. Work through the sites in a fixed order: name the location, name the entity operating it, state why the professional attends, and identify who directs the work there. Complete all four fields for every site before adding any site to the file. A row that cannot be completed marks a fact not yet established, and marking it is more useful than omitting it, because the missing relationship is precisely what a reader will ask about.
Hypothetical example: building a three-site schedule in passes
Hypothetical example: a range manager is engaged by a U.S. land-management company and is expected to attend the company office, a leased field office and a client property. Build the schedule in three passes. The first pass records only what is confirmed in writing, being the office and the field office, both operated by the employer. The second pass adds what is expected but not yet arranged, marked as such, including the client property with the service agreement identified and the supervision arrangement stated. The third pass reconciles the schedule against the employer letter sentence by sentence and resolves any phrase describing the arrangement differently. Passes two and three are the ones most often skipped, and between them they catch the discrepancy a reviewer would otherwise find first. Keep the tentative entries tentative, because converting them to commitments to make the file look complete introduces an inaccuracy serving nobody.
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Is a matching job title enough for TN?Can years of experience replace a degree for TN?Can my own U.S. company employ me under TN?Can my spouse work if I hold TN status?Editorial source review: 2026-09-07. General preparation guidance, not an individual assessment.