Immigration Law

DHS Proposes Three Year TN (NAFTA) Visas

By John Combs

The TN nonimmigrant classification permits qualified Canadian and Mexican citizens to seek temporary entry into the United States as business persons to engage in business activities at a professional level. The specific occupations which qualify for the TN classification include accountants, engineers, lawyers, pharmacists, scientists, and teachers. Spouses and unmarried minor children of TN nonimmigrants may be granted TD nonimmigrant classification to accompany their family member.

USCIS regulations currently provide that TN nonimmigrants may be admitted to the United States for a period not to exceed one year. The proposed rule would ease the burden to TN employees and their employers by increasing the maximum allowable period of admission for from one year to three years, and allow extensions of stay in increments of up to three years instead of the current maximum of one year.

Full post as published by Immigration Law for Employers on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).