Under section 214(e) of the Act, a citizen of Canada or Mexico who seeks temporary entry as a business person to engage in business activities at a professional level may be admitted to the United States in accordance with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Business activities at a professional level means those undertakings which require the individual to have a least a baccalaureate degree or appropriate credentials demonstrating status as a professional in a profession set forth in Appendix 1603.D.1 of the NAFTA, and detailed below.
Business person, as defined in the NAFTA, means a citizen of Canada or Mexico who is engaged in the trade of goods, the provision of services, or the conduct of investment activities.
Engage in business activities at a professional level means the performance of prearranged business activities for a United States entity, including an individual. It does not authorize the establishment of a business or practice in the United States in which the professional will be, in substance, self-employed. A professional will be deemed to be self-employed if he or she will be rendering services to a corporation or entity of which the professional is the sole or controlling shareholder or owner.
Below is the list of acceptable professions for the TN Visa:
- ✔️ Accountant–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or C.P.A., CA., C.G.A., or C.M.A.
- ✔️ Architect–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license. (2)(note 2) The terms “state/provincial license” and “state/provincial/federal license” mean any document issued by a state, provincial, or federal government, as the case may be, or under its authority, but not by a local government, that permits a person to engage in a regulated activity or profession.
- ✔️ Computer Systems Analyst–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma (3) or Post Secondary Certificate (4) and three years’ experience.(note 3) “Post Secondary Diploma” means a credential issued, on completion of two or more years of post secondary education, by an accredited academic institution in Canada or the United States.
(note 4) “Post Secondary Certificate” means a certificate issued, on completion of two or more years of post secondary education at an academic institution, by the federal government of Mexico or a state government in Mexico, an academic institution recognized by the federal government or a state government, or an academic institution created by federal or state law.
- ✔️ Disaster relief insurance claims adjuster (claims adjuster employed by an insurance company located in the territory of a Party, or an independent claims adjuster)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree and successful completion of training in the appropriate areas of insurance adjustment pertaining to disaster relief claims; or three years experience in claims adjustment and successful completion of training in the appropriate areas of insurance adjustment pertaining to disaster relief claims.
- ✔️ Economist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Engineer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license.
- ✔️Forester–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree: or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Graphic Designer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate and three years experience.
- ✔️ Hotel Manager–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree in hotel/restaurant management; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post Secondary Certificate in hotel/restaurant management and three years experience in hotel/restaurant management.
- ✔️ Industrial Designer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree: or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post Secondary Certificate, and three years experience.
- ✔️ Interior Designer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience.
- ✔️ Land Surveyor–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree or state/provincial/federal license.
- ✔️ Landscape Architect–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Lawyer (including Notary in the province of Quebec)–L.L.B., J.D., L.L.L., B-C.L., or Licenciatura degree (five years); or membership in a state/provincial bar.
- ✔️Librarian–M.L.S., or B.L.S. (for which another Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree was a prerequisite).
- ✔️Librarian–M.L.S., or B.L.S. (for which another Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree was a prerequisite).
- ✔️Mathematician (including Statistician)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree. (5)(note 5) The term “Mathematician” includes the profession of Actuary. An Actuary must satisfy the necessary requirements to be recognized as an actuary by a professional actuarial association or society. A professional actuarial association or society means a professional actuarial association or society operating in the territory of at least one of the Parties.
- ✔️ Range Manager/Range Conservationist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Research Assistant (working in a post-secondary educational institution)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.Scientific Technician/Technologist (6) Possession of (a) theoretical knowledge of any of the following disciplines: agricultural sciences, astronomy, biology. chemistry, engineering. forestry, geology. geophysics, meteorology, or physics; and (b) the ability to solve practical problems in any of those disciplines, or the ability to apply principles of any of those disciplines to basic or applied research.
(note 6) A business person in this category must be seeking temporary entry for work in direct support of professionals in agricultural sciences, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, forestry, geology, geophysics, meteorology or physics.
- ✔️ Social Worker–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Syiviculturist (including Forestry Specialist)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Technical Publications Writer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree, or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience.
- ✔️ Urban Planner {including Geographer)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Vocational Counselor–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree. Medical/Allied Professionals
Medical/Allied Professionals
- ✔️ Dentist–D.D.S., D.M.D., Doctor en Odontologia or Doctor en Cirugia Dental or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Dietitian–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Medical Laboratory Technologist (Canada)/Medical Technologist (Mexico and the United States) (7) –Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience.(note 7) A business person in this category must be seeking temporary entry to perform in a laboratory chemical, biological, hematological, immunologic, microscopic or bacteriological tests and analyses for diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of diseases.
- ✔️Nutritionist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree,
- ✔️ Occupational Therapist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Pharmacist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Physician (teaching or research only)–M.D, Doctor en Medicina; or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Physiotherapist/Physical Therapist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree: or state/provincial license.
- ✔️ Psychologist—state/provincial license; or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Recreational Therapist-Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Registered nurse–state/provincial license or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Veterinarian–D.V.M., D.M.V., or Doctor en Veterinaria; or state/provincial license.
Scientist
- ✔️ Agriculturist (including Agronomist)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Animal Breeder-—Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Animal Scientist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Apiculturist-Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Astronomer–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Biochemist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Biologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree. (8)(note 8) The term “Biologist” includes the profession of Plant Pathologist.
- ✔️ Chemist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️Dairy Scientist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️Entomologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Epidemiologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Geneticist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Geochemist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Geologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Geophysicist (including Oceanographer in Mexico and the United States)–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Horticulturist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Metcorologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Pharmacologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Physicist (including Oceanographer in Canada–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️Plant Breeder–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Poultry Scientist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Soil Scientist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Zoologist–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
Teacher
- ✔️ College–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ Seminary–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
- ✔️ University–Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree.
