Vacation on TN visa / management consultant

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Tru Swimmer 06

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Hi there,

I'm on a TN visa, valid through end of this year. I was planning on visiting my family in Europe and Canada (Canada being where I'm from) this summer and checked online and saw that it was okay to travel on the TN visa. I wrote to my lawyers who helped me with the TN visa who told me that they think my application would be very highly scrutinized since I came in under the Management Consultant category and told me basically to not travel at all (I also had some issues when I first petitioned for the TN at the border, they basically said they didn't "believe me" and only gave me a 1 year visa when I know you can get 3 years). Should I just accept this fate and not travel this summer? I was hoping to attend my sister's graduation so this is really disappointing. My I-94 does not expire until the end of the year, and everywhere else I'm reading it looks like travel on the TN visa is okay. Is it because of my specific circumstance that I should be cautioned against doing so?

Any help would be appreciated. I've been dealing with all this border stuff for a couple of years now and every couple of months feels like some setback or difficulty arises. It's pretty demoralizing.
 
On a related note, for those of us Canadians on TN status, is there a difference between traveling back and forth to Canada, and taking a vacation to other places like Europe? Many of us know about the "multi-entry" nature of a TN, but I never quite figured out if that is technically supposed to be limited to trips between Canada and the USA.
 
James Snell said:
On a related note, for those of us Canadians on TN status, is there a difference between traveling back and forth to Canada, and taking a vacation to other places like Europe? Many of us know about the "multi-entry" nature of a TN, but I never quite figured out if that is technically supposed to be limited to trips between Canada and the USA.
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I been going to Canada (Driving/Flying) every weekend since last year and never had any issue.

Coming back to TRU SWIMMER 06 question,:
The only issue i think you will face is the officer questioning the TN visa when you enter US, which is normal.
I have been asked Questions like,what do i do for work and for who. One time the officer even asked me what exactly do i do as a CSA.
If the officer have any doubts about your TN and the job you do, it can get sketchy.
But if you think you can defend that, i think you will be fine.
 
Many people leave and re-enter the US on TN. Some people do it daily in Boarder Cities. There is no limit to the number of times you can leave and re-enter.
I was on TN status for 2.5 years and traveled several times to Canada, Mexico and Asia on business and personal travel. My trips were always short, two weeks or less. (I am now on H1B).
On return, I was usually asked by CBP, where do you work, what do you do, what type of engineer are you, etc. Very simple, basic questions. No issues or concerns. I work for large multi-national corporation, in RF electronics engineering.
I would think if you travel for a short time, you should be fine. If you are out of the US for a long time, they may question in more detail. Maybe bring evidence that you visited your family, sisters graduation.
But if you lawyer is recommending not to travel, that is a tough decision.
I would think the only way they can prevent you from re-entering the US if they think your original TN application was not valid. But, you did get TN status and an I-94 valid for 1 year. So you should have no concerns entering the US, as long as you can show you are still working as a consultant.
 
on your return, bring evidence that you are still working as a consultant in US, names, phone numbers of companies that you have recently been consulting in the past and any future consulting contracts that you may have agreed to do in the future (if any).
 
No need for anything other than your enployee credentials.
The only difference between traveling back from Canada and from elsewhere is that you should be issued a new I-94.
Nothing else is of concern
 
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