TN VISAS The following is a list of NAFTA professionals:
Accountant (baccalaureate,
CPA, CA, CGA, or CMA)
Agriculturist/Agronomist
Animal breeder
Animal Scientist
Apiculturist
Architect (baccalaureate or
state/provincial license. Also see Landscape
Architect, below)
Astronomer
Biochemist
Biologist
Chemist
Computer
systems analyst Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three
years' experience
Dairy Scientist
Dentist (DDS,
DMD, or state/provincial license)
Dietician (baccalaureate
or state/provincial license)
Disaster Relief Insurance Claims
Adjuster Must have:
baccalaureate or 3 years'
experience in claims adjustment, and
completed training in appropriate
areas of insurance adjustment pertaining to disaster
relief claims
Economist
Engineer
(baccalaureate or state/provincial
license)
Entomologist
Epidemiologist
Forester (baccalaureate or
state/provincial license) (Also see Sylviculturist,
below)
Geneticist
Geochemist
Geographer
Geologist
Geophysicist
Graphic
Designer Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three
years' experience
Horticulturist
Hotel Manager Must have:
baccalaureate in hotel/restaurant
management or
post secondary diploma * in
hotel/restaurant management and three years'
experience in hotel restaurant management
Industrial Designer Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three years experience
Interior
Designer Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three
years' experience
Land Surveyor (baccalaureate or
state/provincial/federal license)
Landscaping Architect
Lawyer (member of
state/provincial bar, or LLB, JD, LLL, or BCL)
Librarian (MLS, or BLS. BLS
must be one for which another baccalaureate degree was a
pre-requisite)
Management Consultant Must
have:
baccalaureate or
five years' experience in
consulting or related field.
Mathematician
Medical Technologist/Medical
Lab Technologist (Canada)/ Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three
years' experience
(U.S. job must be in a laboratory to
perform chemical, biological, hematological, immunologic,
microscopic, or bacteriological tests, and analyses for
diagnosis, treatment or prevention of disease)
Meteorologist
Nurse, Registered (must have
state/provincial license)
Nutritionist
Occupational Therapist
(baccalaureate or state/provincial license)
Oceanographer
Pharmacist (baccalaureate
or state/provincial license)
Pharmacologist
Physician (teaching and/or
research only, MD or state/provincial license)
Physicist
Physio/Physical Therapist
(baccalaureate or state/provincial license)
Plant Breeder
Poultry Scientist
Psychologist (must have
state/provincial license. Cannot qualify with just
baccalaureate degree)
Range Manager/Range Conservationist
Recreational Therapist
Research Assistant (baccalaureate
and U.S. job in a post-secondary educational institute)
Social Worker
Soil Scientist
Statistician
Sylviculturist/Forestry Specialist (also
see Forester, above)
Teacher (baccalaureate degree:
must be coming to work for a college, seminary or
university only); no secondary or elementary school
teaching.
Technician
or Technologist, Scientific. (E.g.: Electronic
engineering technician.) Must:
work in direct support of
professionals in one of these disciplines:
biology
chemistry
engineering
forestry
geology
geophysics
meteorology
physics
possess theoretical knowledge of
discipline, and
solve practical problems in
discipline, or apply principles of the discipline to
basic or applied research
Urban Planner
Veterinarian (DVM, DMV, or
state/provincial license)
Vocational Counsellor
Writer,
Technical Publications (Technical Publications
Writer) Must have:
baccalaureate or
post secondary diploma *and three
years' experience
Zoologist
(only available to Canadian & Mexican Nationals)
Much like an H1B visa, the beneficiaries of this type of visa must be professionals from Canada and Mexico, working for a U.S. company in a listed category. This type of visa is available only for a period of one year but is renewable indefinitely.
Who is a TN professional?Asylum may be granted to people who are arriving in or already physically present in the United States. To apply for asylum in the United States, you may ask for asylum at a port-of-entry (airport, seaport, or border crossing), or file.
Implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began on January 1, 1994. This agreement will remove most barriers to trade and investment among the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Under the NAFTA, all non-tariff barriers to agricultural trade between the United States and Mexico were eliminated. In addition, many tariffs were eliminated immediately, with others being phased out over periods of 5 to 15 years. This allowed for an orderly adjustment to free trade with Mexico, with full implementation beginning January 1, 2008.
The agricultural provisions of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, in effect since 1989, were incorporated into the NAFTA. Under these provisions, all tariffs affecting agricultural trade between the United States and Canada, with a few exceptions for items covered by tariff-rate quotas, were removed by January 1, 1998.
Mexico and Canada reached a separate bilateral NAFTA agreement on market access for agricultural products. The Mexican-Canadian agreement eliminated most tariffs either immediately or over 5, 10, or 15 years. Tariffs between the two countries affecting trade in dairy, poultry, eggs, and sugar are maintained.
