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TN Visa Applicants: Asked to Fill New Requirements

As an aftereffect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a unique visa qualifications was offered to residents of Canada and Mexico who meet all requirements for temporary work positions that could be sorted into definite expert characterizations as described by the NAFTA contract. This worker visa is regarded as the TN visa, and incorporates a wide assortment of positions in various fields, for example, social work, bookkeeping, science, arithmetic, and nursing. These visas are issued for one-year lengths of time, however could be developed inconclusively.

 

To fit the bill for a TN visa, a candidate should anyhow have the U.S. equivalency of a Bachelor Degree in the expert area for which he or she applies. To demonstrate that the non US degree is comparable, a non US education credentials evaluation must be carried out by a qualified organization, for example, Evaluation Credentials. These educational evaluations are then submitted, as well as other documentation, to USCIS authorities to figure out if the visa application will be affirmed or denied.

 

Experts who seek TN Visas might request TD visas to permit life partners or wards to go hand in hand with them and dwell with them throughout their stay in the United States. Individuals who hold TN visas, in any case, may not look for work inside the United States. Canadian residents are alluded to as TN-1 Visa seekers, while natives of Mexico are designated as TN-2 aspirants. The latest change in arrangement straightforwardly influences TN-2 visa seekers. The requisition prepare contrasts between Canadian and Mexican subjects, then again. TN-1 Visa aspirants might seek this outsider visa either at a US-Canada border intersection, or at most Canadian international airports. Hence, the TN visa may be conceded on the day whereupon the candidate submits the visa application, a non US education credentials evaluation report, and going hand in hand with documentation.

 

As of late, the system has changed for subjects of Mexico applying for TN-2 Visas through the Matamoras, Mexico Consulate. Despite the fact that this change has not yet been revealed the consulate’s site, these new changes got viable on September 10, 2008. Visa inquirers should now call for an appointment or schedule one online at the consulate site, placed at http://matamoros.usconsulate.gov/matamoros/NAFTA_visas_TN.html.

 

A while ago, candidates were fit to submit their non US education credentials and assessment reports preceding the meeting. This is no more accurate. Nevertheless, candidates are needed to submit their non US credential evaluations and different documents around then of the meeting appointment with the consulate.

 

The manager is still needed to submit the representative’s work credentials to the USCIS to exhibit that the worker is met all requirements for the TN-2 Visa. Just after approbation might the representative calendar an appointment to have his or her visa stamped at the consulate. The representative’s begin date will just be dead set after these steps have been finished.

Media emphasizes on credit evaluation

Assume that you need to work or study in the US or apply an H1b, TN, E3, Eb2, Eb3, I140 visa you require your non-US education assessed to their US equal. Get full credit for your education. You don’t have to study in the US to get credit for US study. Don’t hold yourself once more for no excuse. You are doing yourself and your family a damage in the event that you don’t get full credit for your education.

Entry at U.S. customs: Canadians’ records direct to rejection

Information entered into national police database receptive to American powers: Wikileaks

 

More than twelve Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto inside the previous year that they were hindered from entering the United States after their records of dysfunctional behavior were imparted to the U.S. Bureau of Homeland Security.

 

One such lady, Lois Kamenitz of Toronto, reached the office the previous fall, after U.S. customs authorities at Pearson International Airport averted her from entering a flight to Los Angeles on the groundwork of her suicide endeavor four years prior. As she was passing through customs, a Customs and Border Protection officer said while he didn’t have Kamenitz’s medical records, he had a contact note from the police that showed they had went to her home in 2006. Kamenitz says, “It dawned on me that he was referring to the 911 call my partner made when I attempted suicide.”

 

Another lady, writer Ellen Richardson of Toronto, was denied a flight to New York as a part of a cruise excursion. She was told by U.S. customs authorities at Pearson International Airport in late November, 2013, that on the grounds that she had been hospitalized for clinical misery in June 2012, she couldn’t enter the U.S. Accordingly, she missed her flight to New York City and a Caribbean journey.

 

Agonized over travel

 

Stanley Stylianos, program director at the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office, says his associates had heard more than twelve stories like Kamenitz’s.

 

The office has accepted telephone calls too from various Canadians who are concerned that their mental health histories might cause security stalls throughout future visits south of the border.

 

As such, the RCMP hasn’t given the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office with clear replies about how or why police records of peaceful mental health episodes are gone to the U.S.

 

Brad Benson from the U.S. Branch of Homeland Security says restorative records aren’t imparted between countries. Nonetheless, “if you have an arrest record, Canada would share that with us,” he says. “Dysfunctional behavior is really a [legal] excuse for why that you may not get approved,” he says. “The issue is always going to be: could someone be a danger to someone [else]?”

 

Wikileaks

 

As per diplomatic links disclosed prior not long from now by Wikileaks, any data entered into the national Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) database is open to American powers.

 

Data on CPIC may hold notes composed by officers while capturing a singular or reacting to a 911 call, an individual’s criminal record, warrants, missing persons reports, data about stolen property, data in regards to persons of investment, and people’s history of emotional sickness, incorporating suicide endeavors, in which police are included.

 

For Kamenitz’s situation, this could clarify how U.S. authorities had a record of the police reaction to the 911 call her accomplice made in 2006, after Kamenitz took an overdose of pills.

 

The database holds anything that could alarm powers to a potential danger to open wellbeing and security, and all CPIC data is accessible to the U.S. Branch of Homeland Security, RCMP Insp. Denis St. Pierre says. There are a couple of special cases, incorporating data in regards to youthful reprobates, which is not accessible to American powers.

 

“If a person is a danger to themselves and the police are dealing with that person in another jurisdiction… It’s valuable information, knowing that perhaps this person may harm themselves,” St. Pierre says.

 

9.6 million Records

 

Consistent with a RCMP site, the CPIC database saves 9.6 million records in its investigative databases.

 

The RCMP and U.S. law authorization orgs give corresponding coordinate access to one another’s criminal databases so as to stem the stream of opiates and criminal dealings into North America, consistent with the Wikileaks link.

 

The point when gotten some information about the offering of police data for security purposes, Kamenitz says the administration is “obviously not considering what the impact of that can be and how much that can alter a person’s life.” Kamenitz notes that suicide isn’t a criminal offence in either country. “It speaks to the myth we still hold,” Kamenitz says, “that people with a mental illness are violent criminals.”

 

Distinct cases

 

Kamenitz was inevitably permitted to board a plane to Los Angeles, four days following her missing flight. In any case so as to do along these lines, she needed to submit her medicinal records to the U.S. and get approval from a Homeland Security-approved specialist in Toronto, who charged her $250 for the service.

 

In the same way, Richardson was said she could merely cross the threshold to the U.S. if a doctor from a definite list signed a paper guaranteeing for her. She will need to pay $500. Unlike Kamenitz, Richardson refused and exited to home. After that she questioned how the agent discerned her past at first. Richardson states she has been on numerous trips since 2001, all of which requisite U.S. flights, with no difficulties. She said, “It really hit me later — that it’s quite stunning they have that information.”

 

Benson says the reaction from the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers for Kamenitz’s situation was decently common. “Now that the note from her doctor is on her records,” he says, “I wouldn’t expect her to have any more problems.”

 

In the Homeland Security form Kamenitz was needed to round out many inquiries regarding if she had a history of substance ill-use and if she had any transferrable illnesses, for example, Aids or tuberculosis.

 

“These are private and personal medical records that I’m now handing over to a non US government,” she says.

 

Stylianos says Canadians ought to be insulted that individuals’ mental health data is imparted over the border. “It is a seriously private matter for numerous people,” he says.

 

‘You can’t control it’

Stylianos says his associates are campaigning for this records not to be incorporated in the CPIC database or imparted to the U.S. Division of Homeland Security as a major aspect of a standard border screening process.

 

“Once that information gets into the American system, you can’t control it,” he says.

 

Richardson has enlisted a legal counselor and turned to her Member of Parliament, Mike Sullivan, for replies.

 

Sullivan says the evident absence of police participation presents Richardson’s defense particularly abstruse. While her stay in the hospital was led by a 911 call, police were never included, simply an emergency vehicle.

 

“We don’t know how deep the association is between U.S. customs and Canadian authorities”, he said.

 

NDP health faultfinder France Gelinas said she’s been reached by three individuals who have been denied access to the United States hooked on their individual health history. Gelinas asked Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian to scrutinize previously.

 

Cavoukian said she will study the matter to guarantee that particular health data isn’t traded.

 

She said such data shouldn’t be imparted to anybody outside their human services suppliers and doing so undermines the trustworthiness of all health services in Ontario.

 

“An A person’s medical history is something that must remain absolutely confidential,” said Gelinas.

 

Security?

 

As per the same diplomatic link disclosed by Wikileaks, which incorporated information from 2004 and 2005, Americans accepted that regardless of the open database imparting, “Canada’s strict protection laws” have constrained the well-timed trade of data between the two countries.

 

In the 10 years since the Sept. 11 strike, the two countries have battled to go to a concurrence on how best to police the border.

 

The organizations of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama are in talks over an edge security bargain that might contain further cross-border brainpower imparting as a component of a joint border security technique.

 

In an Aug. 29 news gathering in Toronto, Non US Affairs Minister John Baird told journalists that the security privileges of Canadians remain top-of-psyche throughout exchanges about cross-border law implementation programs. “Our sovereignty cannot and will not be compromised”, that was his exact words.

Immigration is a major issue for women

In primary November, 2013, 33 immigrant and nonimmigrant women from unions, immigrant-rights and women’s groups were under arrest in Bellevue, Washington. They had denied to leave the state GOP head office until the state’s four Republican congressional legislatures approved to progress an inclusive immigration modification bill in the U.S. House. Even the Seattle mayor’s spouse, Peggy Lynch, contributed.

The GOP’s reply to that dispute? The previous state Republican Party chairperson Kirby Wilbur tweeted, “[I] missed all the fun … today as left wing witches and has protested and got arrested. They look so old and ugly …”

Present GOP state management proximately dissociated themselves from Wilbur, but the four Washington GOP congressional affiliates remained quiet on the matter of the topic. Their procrastination displays how little the party comprehends about the high dangers of immigration restructuring.

No one of the four Republican congressional memberships from Washington State has had the nerve to sign on to the immigration bill presented in the House in October 2013. None has delivered practical remarks on the question. And yet, everyone has a distinct accountability to both women and immigrants in moving forward immigration development.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, is the highest-ranking woman in the GOP management. U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, is chairwoman of the Congressional Committee for Women’s Subjects. U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, and Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, have large immigrant residents in their districts with frugalities that hinge on immigrant labor. All of them should come front on the matter.

Women and kids — three-quarters of all settlers to America — are the facade of immigration. They tolerate the inconsistent liability of a futile immigration arrangement.  In Washington, women and children structure 55 percent of the immigrant populace.

Now, only 27 percent of all service visas go to women since the industries occupied by women are not highlighted for work. Those who arrive on a spouse’s visa are incapable to work, irrespective of credentials, which shows a big portion in a spectacular 77 percent of reliant immigrant wives facing domestic vehemence.

Given the absence of different choices, 70 percent of Women who do get legitimate status acquire it through family sponsorship. While the majority of individuals extradited are men, it is Women who should get the pieces. In a June study, Human Impact Partners assessed that when an essential earner is expelled, he or she leaves an expected 83,000 accomplices, for the most part Women, behind to manage lost compensation and expanded danger of neediness and craving.

 

That is the reason Women the country over have ventures up their demands for genuine reform even with Republican hard-headedness.

 

The Bellevue challenge was one of nine Women headed activities the country over in key Republican locale, facilitated by the We Belong Together crusade. In sum, 500 Women partook and just about 100 Women were captured, referred to for blocking borders or declining to leave GOP work places until Republican agents advanced on immigration reform.

 

These challenges went ahead the heels of a dissent in Washington, D.C., where 105 Women (counting 25 undocumented Women) were captured for hindering the road before the House of Representatives. It was the biggest all-Women demonstration of civil noncompliance in later history.

 

Women’s organizations — incorporating the national Organization for Women, MomsRising, 9 to 5, Planned Parenthood and the YWCA — have embraced immigration  reform, most despite any precedent to the contrary not long from now. Women’s organizations understand that immigration reform is key to Women’ correspondence. For all the hard-battled increases taking into account the Women’ development, foreigner and non-immigrant Women in America must at present battle together to uproot all the obstructions that keep Women from satisfying their full potential.

 

Women’ voices are constantly heard in the field and in Congress. Fourteen Senate Women supported an imperative bipartisan reform to make a proposed legitimacy based framework more reasonable to Women. In place of relegating points just for education or work, the revision might have additionally allotted points for family relationships and might have held various visas for fields where Women held the vast majority of the employments.

 

Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., were crucial in pushing send procurements around outsider provincial viciousness exploited people. The last bill, while still blemished, had numerous magnificent procurements blanket outsider Women.

 

On the House side, U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D.-Calif., framed a Women’s Working Group on immigration Reform, whose members have been conveying addresses and sending associates letters about Women and immigration.

 

Politically, both workers and Women have demonstrated their voting power. President Obama and as of late re-chose New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie every won 55 percent of the Women’ vote. Obama likewise won gigantic majorities of immigrant voters, while Christie caught 51 percent of the Latino vote, contrasted with his rival’s 29 percent.

 

At last, Republicans might as well understand that a vote against immigration reform is a vote against Women. Sexist remarks and inaction on immigration reform will essentially accelerate proceeded distance of Women and outsiders. It will additionally leave a huge number of Women and families differentiated and living in the shadows.

 

Now is the right time for the House to get to work and quit stalling on passing a complete immigration reform law that is reasonable to Women and that keeps families together. America’s women and children can’t wait any longer.

President Offers Temporary Immigration Reform Solution with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, created by President Obama in June of 2012 is designed to stay the deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States by offering two-year visas.  To qualify, immigrants must have been brought to the United States illegally as children and currently be under the age of 30.  In addition, they must have graduated high school or earned a GED, be in school, or be military veterans.  There is also a $465 application fee.  Applicants with serious convictions or at least three misdemeanors will not qualify.  According to the Immigration Policy Center, 950,000 people in the United States qualify.

Although this program has helped hundreds of thousands of young people living in the United States access greater freedom, opportunity, and mobility, it is not a permanent solution.  The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program only exists at the president’s discretion and there is no guarantee it will survive past this current administration.  In the national legislature, a federal solution passed on the Senate floor in June of 2013 and is currently stalled in the House of Representatives.  This would double the size of Boarder Patrol and enhance surveillance technology on the border with Mexico, but it would also provide a path to citizenship for roughly 12 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.

Since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program went into effect over a year and a half ago, more than 565,000 undocumented immigrants in the country have received two-year visas.  At the same time, on the state level, many states have granted access to driver’s licenses and in-state college tuition for people in this age group.

Source: Krogstad, Jens Manuel.  “Temporary visa opens up world for young immigrant,” USA Today.  September 24th, 2013.  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/24/temporary-visa-opportunities-young-immigrant/2859321/

 

Governor Christie Agrees to Compromise on DREAM Act

After New Jersey Governor Chris Christie openly opposed the democratically-controlled state legislature on their state’s version of the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, they reached a compromise.  Gov. Christie agreed to sign off on the bill offering in-state tuition rates for state colleges and universities to undocumented immigrants who attended New Jersey high schools for at least three years on the condition that the provision to grant financial aid to these same students be removed.

The DREAM Act was first proposed to the federal legislature in 2001 and has yet to be federally approved.  However, many states have passed their own versions of the dream act to create access to residency through educational opportunities to “Young people who are Americans in everything but on paper,” as New Jersey State Senate president Stephen Sweeney puts it.

On the federal level, the DREAM Act has carried a lot of weight in the past two presidential elections and promises to be a hot topic again in 2016.  Obama showed some support staying the deportation of undocumented immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought here under the age of 16 through an executive order.  In 2012, Mitt Romney promised to veto the DREAM Act, and John McCain’s support for the bill in 2008 became a liability for the GOP.

Immigration policy was also a hot topic in the New Jersey gubernatorial election when Christie won 51% of the Hispanic vote.  However, due to his opposition to various provisions of the DREAM Act on the state level, he was accused of misleading the Hispanic population with his campaign promise to work for tuition equality.

“What I was trying to do all along was to get what I promised, which was tuition equality.  I didn’t promise tuition assistance grants and financial aid,” explained Gov. Christie against this criticism.  During his campaign, he didn’t go into details about what tuition equality meant to him.

Adapted from: Timm, Jane C. “Christie’s DREAM: ‘This is what compromise looks like,’” MSNBC. December 20, 2013.  http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/chris-christie-dream-act

A projected way out to the American Mortgage catastrophe

The American contract emergency in arriving at sudden statures, and the issue is just developing with each one passing month. Ms. Sheila Danzig, an original American, is amazingly acquainted with the qualities and demographics of persons looking for foreign degree evaluations for Eb-2 and Eb-3 visas to the United States. After cautious examination, this master on global education has decided to backing a proposal initially introduced on the Immigration Voice visit board. This proposal could help to altogether ease America’s current lodging issue while empowering billions of dollars in investment development.

 

Laborers holding work based visas are as of now living inside the United States. Those seeking lasting occupant status have been existing in the United States for more than five years. All have proficient degrees in their fields of vocation, and a sizable rate hold Master Degrees or PhDs. None are taking American employments; these visas are issued absolutely in light of the fact that no U.S. workers are accessible to do the work needed by the supporting organizations and associations.

 

The average wage earned by specialists holding EB visas is $65,000 yearly. The majority of these people have exceptional or fabulous credit appraisals, and secure livelihoods. They are exceptionally energetic to buy homes and settle in family well disposed neighborhoods. Tragically, nonetheless, they stay in limbo while they are sitting tight for the USCIS to support their green card provisions.

 

Indeed, a few specialists are constrained to sit tight for up to seven prior years appropriating a reaction to their provision. They hold foreign credentials U.S. equivalency of proficient degrees, and are laborers basically required by our social order, yet they hold up to study if they have the right to stay in this nation!

 

More than 200,000 immigration  visa numbers have been lost as specialists sit tight for their provision to be transformed. This has brought about a large number of lost dollars for the economy. Meanwhile, pretty nearly 800,000 pay earners hold up to see if they will be allowed to stay in the United States. Think about, for instance, the likelihood that 50% of these persons wish to buy a home.  If they were allowed to make a 20 percent initial installment on a private home (and the average cost of a home in the U.S. today is give or take 200,000), this might bring about a net fiscal increase of 1.6 billion dollars in instantaneous pick up for American banks!

 

Settlers are exceptionally energetic to succeed and make themselves some piece of the society that invites them to stay in their nation. Offer your backing for an answer that works for potential workers and in addition for the U.S. economy today. The 30 years required to pay off most contracts will permit these persons to more than show their dedication to the security of the U.S. economy. At last, these stable, hazard free contracts will help to turn around the descending winding into which our lodging market has drooped and help it to fly upward once more.

Why They Must

In July the US Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri said “The United States needs more Indian students in its colleges.” This will happen until additional schools completely understand the Indian education framework.

 

 

(September 17, 2009 ) Mumbai, India – US Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri tended to students at the Techno India Institute letting them know to go to the US for graduate studies. At the same time as per By Dr. R.venkatachalam, previous teacher of brain science at Bharathiar University, India, it is not the Indian students he should address it is the US inductions officers who are not completely tolerating foreign credential evaluations demonstrating that the three year degree from India is proportionate to a US four year certification

 

In the later past, a developing number of American colleges have begun tolerating Indian three-year degrees, in any event in standard, as equal to American four-year degrees. This was uncovered in a study by John Kersey, Ph.d., Amos Bronson Alcott Center for Educational Research at European-American University http://www.thedegree.organization/ and Sheila Danzig, Ph.d., Evaluation Credentials www.EvaluationCredentials .com/

 

This piecemeal acknowledgement is a long way from acceptable and does not adequately uproot the separation Indian three year graduates are subjected to.

http://www.emailwire.com/doc/three-year-indian-degree.pdf

Lawful street to walk in the US

In view of NAFTA some Canadian and Mexican residents qualify to work in the US on a brief nonimmigrant foundation. The TN Visa is accessible to them.

 

(Emailwire.com, November 17, 2009 ) Sunrise, Fl On the groundwork of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), some Canadian and Mexican residents qualify to work in the United States on a brief foundation under nonimimmigrant TN status.

 

Given underneath are the terms and conditions that must be fulfilled with a specific end goal to get qualified for the TN Visa:

 

• The occupation ought to be on the NAFTA record.

 

• The foreign national must hold the obliged academic or preparing record for a particular occupation.

 

• The seeker’s proposed position should succumb to the class of expert positions.

 

• It is mandatory for the seeker to work for a U.S. superintendent.

 

On account of Canadian natives, there’s no need for recording a request for livelihood. All that needs to be carried out is to essentially get TN status at a port of entrance. Then again, candidates from Mexico must submit requisition at the U.S. consulate in Mexico.

 

Notwithstanding the degrees, diplomas, or any sort of educational credentials allowed by any foreign educational foundation, the aspirant must submit a foreign credential assessment report ready by a particular credential assessment service. One firm offering this credential assessment service for the TN Visa is www.EvaluationCredentials .com This foreign degree assessment must be secured before entering into US.

 

Job skill Evaluations

Numerous individuals have heard that it is conceivable to get school credit for background, yet few really know how this lives up to expectations. In numerous nations, a professional education is not dependably needed to enter certain vocation fields. Without much fanfare, Evaluation Credentials gained a message from somebody we had been working with on a work experience assessment.

 

This singular had sat for a bookkeeping examination in a foreign nation more than 30 years prior. In the wake of functioning as a bookkeeper for a long time, this individual chose to work in the United States, and had finished so for a long time. Having accepted no formal foreign degree, this individual obliged verification of having sufficient education to start occupation in another position.

 

He counseled this specific foreign credential assessment organization since we had the ability to help a relative of his previously. In the wake of checking on his archives, we were happy to have the capacity to offer assistance. This is the way his education and experience met expectations:

 

Work experience is generally given a U.S. equivalency of one year of higher education for like clockwork lived up to expectations. Subsequently, in the wake of working for 24 years, he had realized the educational equivalency of a Master Degree in Accounting. This together with his bookkeeping testament from his nation of inception, was sufficient to have the capacity to issue a degree equivalency and development his occupation prospects with the new firm.

 

And our credential assessment service was happy to know we had the capacity to help.