What was your path of immigration into the US as a Canadian?
Any tips or advice?
Any tips or advice?
You go to border control, tell them you're applying for a TN, hand them a copy of your identification, resume, credentials, and offer letter. Then you wait for a couple of hours while they process you, and you're set for the next few years. Rinse and repeat until your job sponsors you for an H1-B or you marry an American citizen and can apply for a Green Card.
Of course, there's other ways - talk to an immigration lawyer - but that's the simplest.
Going from TN to an immigrant visa via AOS is only risky in the sense that:
- After you've filed your i485 you will no longer be able to get TN status, this applies regardless of your non-immigrant status.
- You can't travel abroad between filing the i485 and receiving AP, which could be 6+ months.
On the plus side you get a Green Card and don't have to play the H1-B lottery.
[0] https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/90-day-rule-...
You can get a TN visa cancelled for expressing desire to stay permanently
They are.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf...
> You can get a TN visa cancelled for expressing desire to stay permanently
That is not true provided you follow the 90 day rule.
An H1b allows the person to enter the country with the intention of getting a GC and can do so without having to leave the country.
A TN visa is re issued every single time you cross the border and can be denied by a border guard on any amount of misrepresentation
Secondly, your advice about the 90 day rule without context is both bad advice and can get someone's visa cancelled and stuck out of the country.
For future readers. Don't take this advice, ask a lawyer and if you intend to get a GC don't go on a TN unless you want legal complexity.
We agree on one thing however, consult a lawyer (you will have to anyway if you are pursuing a GC). A good lawyer will tell you the same thing.
It's a pathway thousands of Canadians have taken and will continue to take. Don't delay your life over the broken H1-B system.
With that being said for source you can review this site and many others that will say the same thing about intention to permanently reside with a TN visa
https://manifestlaw.com/blog/tn-visa-to-green-card
Lastly your statement of incorrectness also sites no sources so I guess we just both have our opinions at this point
Nothing in that article contradicts anything I have said.
Not a great article either. Very boiler-plate and doesn't mention the 90 day rule for either TN to EB GC or marriage based GC.
> Lastly your statement of incorrectness also sites no sources so I guess we just both have our opinions at this point
Those figures are not public but it's a reasonable statement considering NAFTA has been in place since 1994, over fifty thousand Canadians have been awarded green cards over the last five years[0] and I am one of those people.
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