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What should I collect for a TN change of employer?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Collect the new employer’s support materials, professional qualifications, citizenship evidence, and current immigration records. Include the details needed to understand the old employment’s end and the proposed new start. The precise submission depends on the procedure selected; a previous approval is useful history, not a substitute for the new offer.

Make the transition chronology clear

Prepare a private timeline of admission, extensions, travel, and employment changes for the adviser to check. Ask the new employer to describe its own duties and terms rather than copying the old employer’s letter. Flag any mismatch between the new offer and the category previously used.

Retain relevant prior decisions and admission records so questions about current status can be assessed before filing or travel, not discovered at the intended start date. Expect the first review to produce a request list rather than a filing. The list should distinguish what the applicant holds, what the new employer must draft and what a third party must supply, with a name against each item.

Ask specifically for the new employer to describe the duties in its own words before any support letter is drafted, because a letter written from the previous employer template tends to describe the old job on new letterhead, and that mismatch is difficult to unwind once signed. Provide the private chronology of admission, extensions, travel and employment changes at the first meeting rather than later, since it frequently changes the route advice and is quick to prepare. A previous approval belongs in the file as history.

It evidences what was accepted for a different employer and does not stand in for the new offer.