TN and I-485 application

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heng1234

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Hi. My wife and I are Canadians living in the US and I am the main applicant for the green card. We applied for I-485 last August and got the EAD and advanced parole in October.

However, my wife applied for TN (a one-year work permit for Canadians working in the US) at the Canadian/US border in September and the INS gave it to her. A friend told us that because my wife went to Canada before she got her advanced parole and EAD, this means she abandoned her application. My wife explained that she went into Canada with H4 status for 10 minutes and then turned around to the US INS for TN. But my friend said the fact that she left US means that she abandoned her application. We don’t seem to have any solution to this.

Any suggestion about this situation is sincerely appreciated!
 
heng1234 said:
HA friend told us that because my wife went to Canada before she got her advanced parole and EAD, this means she abandoned her application. My wife explained that she went into Canada with H4 status for 10 minutes and then turned around to the US INS for TN. But my friend said the fact that she left US means that she abandoned her application. We don’t seem to have any solution to this.
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Easy solution is to ignore your friend, since he is wrong. So long as your wife was able to return via H-4, which she was always able to do since you were in H-1B status, then she is fine. I'm more amazed that CBP issued her with a TN with a filed I-485, but it probably hadn't made it into their systems.
 
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