I found a lot of info on this site about Canadian contractors working from US, but not much info about contractors that do most of their work from Canada for a US company.
I hope you might be able to help. Here is the latest on the saga.
I am Canadian, have my own INC company in Canada and work as a consultant with multiple clients and one major client in the US. I have been working with this client for 5 years now on multiple projects and they now want to retain me for 35hrs a week for 1 year. I would basically spend 90-95% of my time on this client.
I have a contract with this company that states the kind of duties I will handle on a day to day basis for them.
I go to the US about 10-15 times a year for 2-5 day trips to meet my client all over the States and always entered with a B1 visa. Lately the agents are asking me more an more questions about my work and are suggesting that I should ask for non immigrant Tn status instead.
I read pretty much everything I could find on the TN letter, the TN requirements, the nafta professional categories ( I am a graphic designer with bachelor in Graphics design) etc, but I am still not completely sure why I need TN status.
I am going to a conference next week, which will be listed under my B1, but intend to ask for TN status.
I hope to get it this week because the next week I am scheduled to attend a meeting at my client's and I am afraid they might dey B1 and TN...
Any advise on how to approach this with the agents? I tend to be quite stressed whenever I go to customs lately since there is always this chance of being denied entry.
Thanks.
I hope you might be able to help. Here is the latest on the saga.
I am Canadian, have my own INC company in Canada and work as a consultant with multiple clients and one major client in the US. I have been working with this client for 5 years now on multiple projects and they now want to retain me for 35hrs a week for 1 year. I would basically spend 90-95% of my time on this client.
I have a contract with this company that states the kind of duties I will handle on a day to day basis for them.
I go to the US about 10-15 times a year for 2-5 day trips to meet my client all over the States and always entered with a B1 visa. Lately the agents are asking me more an more questions about my work and are suggesting that I should ask for non immigrant Tn status instead.
I read pretty much everything I could find on the TN letter, the TN requirements, the nafta professional categories ( I am a graphic designer with bachelor in Graphics design) etc, but I am still not completely sure why I need TN status.
I am going to a conference next week, which will be listed under my B1, but intend to ask for TN status.
I hope to get it this week because the next week I am scheduled to attend a meeting at my client's and I am afraid they might dey B1 and TN...
Any advise on how to approach this with the agents? I tend to be quite stressed whenever I go to customs lately since there is always this chance of being denied entry.
Thanks.