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(US) Immigration Law
The rules surrounding the movement of personnel across borders can be counter-intuitive, even before the era of pandemic travel restrictions and essential workers.
Consideration needs to be made as to the citizenship of the traveler, eligibility requirements for work visas (or ideally for not requiring a work visa), the location of the entity from which the employee is being paid, and which activities qualify travel as “non-discretionary” under current pandemic travel restrictions.
To streamline this process, we can provide clarity on how these rules have been applied, as well as provide official lawyer documents for your personnel to provide to the Customs Officers when they cross the border.
Case Studies
(1) TN Visa: Successful application for a three-year TN visa on behalf of a Canadian citizen moving to the US being paid out of a US entity.
(2) Pandemic Travel Restrictions: Classification of a US citizen engineer as an essential worker, thereby allowing that engineer into Canada for the purposes of attending meetings and negotiating contracts on site in Canada.
What are the current pandemic travel restrictions?
Pandemic travel restrictions are a new area of immigration law that are widely misunderstood.
Contact us to discuss your situation and how the latest round of government travel restrictions have been applied by Customs.