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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Canadian working in the U.S.? What you need to know about TN, H-1B visas

Specialized nurses working in Detroit who used TN visas now advised to apply for H-1B visas
CBC News Posted: Mar 16, 2017 5:54 PM ET Last Updated: Mar 17, 2017 9:47 AM ET

Canadian nurses working at Michigan hospitals were shocked last week when border security officers stopped them from entering the U.S. because of changes to their working visas under new immigration policies.

Marc Topoleski, an immigration lawyer for Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said the changes at the border stem from new U.S. immigration policies, but officials from the Cross Border Institute at the University of Windsor disagree.

According to Laurie Tannous, a special adviser to the institute, the changes come from border security enforcing existing NAFTA regulations that have not been enforced before.

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"There is no NAFTA or legal challenge to what they are doing," she said. There were far fewer specialized nurses needed in the U.S. when NAFTA rules were written, Tannous said.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-...roit-1.4028260

I gather that the specialized nurse visa thing has now been reversed - seems to have been a bureaucratic error more than anything else.