Hey all, I found this forum and I'm really hoping to gain some insight to better understand how to handle my situation.
Some background: I'm a Canadian with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. I'm currently doing a Masters in Electrical and Computer engineering, my research is complete and all I have to do is write my thesis which should take 4-6 months after which I'll recieve my Masters degree.
Due to my experience with the masters, I've been offered employment with a US company. I am due to start June 3rd, and as such I'm looking to get a TN visa. I've worked in the states previously on a TN visa, as a mechanical engineer. I plan to write my thesis while I work.
The title for the job I've been offered is Artificial Intelligence Engineer. I plan to show my transcript and degree from when I had graduated from mechanical engineering, with no reference made whatsoever to the fact that I'm pursuing my masters since as far as I know it isn't relevant due to the fact that I haven't completed it yet.
My concerns are that the border patrol officer may decide that my mechanical engineering degree does not have sufficient overlap with my current job description - it deals heavily in software engineering. I know to stay away from the "programming" buzzword, and in all honesty this job entails using a computer as essentially a more capable calculator to build predictive models rather than programs themselves. On the other hand, if I mention my masters which does overlap significantly with my job responsibilities, I may run into issues with the fact that the degree has not been completed yet and I'd really rather not pass up a good opportunity to hope that another comes up on 6 months when I'm finished.
To complicate matters further, the company's website markets them as a software engineer company providing solutions to computer problems such as computer vision and predictive analysis.
One thing I will say is that I am 100% qualified for the job. I've done a lot of the work that they do both in my masters research and in my spare time/on my own projects. That being said the job is not in any way a "mechanical engineering" job, truthfully no specific degree is necessary to do this work, just a knowledge in statistics and math which are definitely taught in detail during the mechanical engineering track - I'm just not sure that the border officer will see it this way.
Any suggestions at all are very welcomed. Thank you!
Some background: I'm a Canadian with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. I'm currently doing a Masters in Electrical and Computer engineering, my research is complete and all I have to do is write my thesis which should take 4-6 months after which I'll recieve my Masters degree.
Due to my experience with the masters, I've been offered employment with a US company. I am due to start June 3rd, and as such I'm looking to get a TN visa. I've worked in the states previously on a TN visa, as a mechanical engineer. I plan to write my thesis while I work.
The title for the job I've been offered is Artificial Intelligence Engineer. I plan to show my transcript and degree from when I had graduated from mechanical engineering, with no reference made whatsoever to the fact that I'm pursuing my masters since as far as I know it isn't relevant due to the fact that I haven't completed it yet.
My concerns are that the border patrol officer may decide that my mechanical engineering degree does not have sufficient overlap with my current job description - it deals heavily in software engineering. I know to stay away from the "programming" buzzword, and in all honesty this job entails using a computer as essentially a more capable calculator to build predictive models rather than programs themselves. On the other hand, if I mention my masters which does overlap significantly with my job responsibilities, I may run into issues with the fact that the degree has not been completed yet and I'd really rather not pass up a good opportunity to hope that another comes up on 6 months when I'm finished.
To complicate matters further, the company's website markets them as a software engineer company providing solutions to computer problems such as computer vision and predictive analysis.
One thing I will say is that I am 100% qualified for the job. I've done a lot of the work that they do both in my masters research and in my spare time/on my own projects. That being said the job is not in any way a "mechanical engineering" job, truthfully no specific degree is necessary to do this work, just a knowledge in statistics and math which are definitely taught in detail during the mechanical engineering track - I'm just not sure that the border officer will see it this way.
Any suggestions at all are very welcomed. Thank you!
