US Immigration Service Proposes to Increase TN Visa Period of Stay for Canadian And Mexican National

The TN Visa is available under the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement for Citizens of Canada and Mexico to work in the United Stated in certain professional positions. It had been available in one year increments only. By this proposal, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes to increase the period of stay from one year to three years, the same amount of time allowable for H-1B Visas for Professionals. This May 5, 2008 proposal would also permit extensions of the TN Visa status for three (3) years instead of one year. [Read the USCIS announcement].