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1) Comments: TN many moons ago

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I got my first TN in 07/96 and was content working with that until the Pigeon River point of entry decided that the TN for health care worker was good only for 6 months with the second one at no charge. Back then, dual intent was either ignored or didn't exist for TNs so I started the immigration process. I was in Kansas, so my labor cert took 2 years because there was only one person in Topeka working on them. If I lived in New Jersey, it would have been approved in a month. Once it was approved, I filed the I-140 and after that was approved, the I-485. There was no H1B involved. At the end of the month, I will be applying for citizenship.

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Name: Rafiq
Location: United States
Posted on: Nov 16, 2008  Email this link to friend(s)
2) Comments: Mine was successful... so far.

I've been in the US for 13 of the last 14 years and over the years I've obtained 6 different TN's and I've been on an H1b for a total of 8 years. I was voluntarily out of the country for 1 year about 5 years ago, which reset my H1b clock.

The last status I had was a TN and that was after I was married to a USC (we were still deciding what country we'd live in) and finally I filed for my GC. My EAD was approved 2 weeks prior to my TN expiring and now I am just waiting for my GC Interview in 4 weeks.

The only advice I would give - make sure you give yourself plenty of time to receive your EAD based PRIOR to you existing status expiring (whether it's an H1b or TN or something else). I cut mine too close and it almost cost me. I was lucky, but I would not depend on such luck. If I had any RFE's that delayed my EAD I would have been stuck without work authorization. Or if it just took 90 days to get my EAD I would have been stuck. It was my fault that I didn't get it filed on time and I was just lucky.

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Name: TNguy78
Location: United States
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