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MAPLE RIDGE · L-1A FIELD GUIDE

What order should the structural steps follow?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

Registration or incorporation first, then banking, premises, and tax registrations, then the business plan and evidence assembly. Immigration preparation begun before the entity exists usually has to be redone once the real records arrive.

Let the entity lead the schedule

Each step depends on the one before: the bank wants incorporation documents, the landlord wants an entity name, and the plan needs a location. Registrations run on external timelines nobody controls. Set milestones for the entity, the premises, and the funding, and put the one-year review point in the calendar at the outset.

Discuss a start date only once the structure is in place and the plan is written. Let the entity lead the schedule, because each step depends on the one before: the bank wants incorporation documents, the landlord wants an entity name, and the plan needs a location. Registrations run on external timelines nobody controls, and a week lost at a registry moves everything behind it.

Set milestones for the entity, the premises, and the funding, then put the one-year review point in the calendar at the outset rather than discovering it later. Immigration preparation begun before the entity exists usually has to be redone once the real records arrive. Discuss a start date only once the structure is in place and the plan is written down.