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RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF RITCHOT · TN FIELD GUIDE

Is every expense in the offer an official immigration charge?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. Compensation, relocation support, professional expenses and government charges are different items.

Reconcile the actual terms

Use the agreement and current applicable fee information to identify each obligation. A combined employer budget should not be represented as a universal TN price.

Check current government amounts on the USCIS fee schedule rather than on any figure quoted to you second-hand, since those amounts change and a stale number is worse than none. A Canadian citizen ordinarily presents the application at a port of entry, which carries its own processing charge; an employer that files Form I-129 instead pays the petition charge and any optional premium processing it elects. On the professional side the state board charges for the licence application, for verification of the Canadian registration, and often for fingerprinting or a jurisprudence examination, and the Canadian regulator charges to send verification directly. Verify government amounts through the current USCIS Form G-1055 schedule or relevant admission instructions; a recruiter’s bundled invoice is not proof of government payment. What the two routes share is the cost of preparing the file: credential evaluation where the degree is foreign or unusual, certified translations, and professional fees if the applicant or employer engages counsel.