Elizabeth Mavec helped a Canadian dentist renew his TN status to continue practicing at a U.S. dental practice, navigating a potential complication from his independent-contractor pay structure. By documenting the practice's control over his day-to-day work, the case satisfied TN's employer-employee relationship requirement despite the unconventional 1099 arrangement.
Approved TN cases
Approved TN cases from Manifest Law clients. Browse the approval notices one by one.
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How each case was won
Approval notices summarize each approved case, with the visa type and the client's field.
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Dariela Nieto helped a Canadian computer systems analyst secure TN approval to take on an IT and network-analysis role at a U.S. employer.
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Jessica Lang helped a Mexican construction management professional secure an approved TN visa to work for a U.S. design firm. The petition documented his U.S. master's degree, professional licensure, and a carefully structured employment and payroll arrangement, and a Request for Evidence was successfully overcome before approval.
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Avalon Paul helped a specialty watch retailer bring on a key professional with an approved TN visa. Manifest Law worked directly with the company's leadership to prepare the employer-sponsored petition, which was approved about two weeks after the case was received.
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Jessica Lang helped a Canadian management consultant renew his TN status, filing through USCIS to avoid the border difficulties that had derailed his earlier applications. The extension was built on consistent documentation of his consulting role and updated compensation, aligned carefully with his prior filing. The approval kept his career and his family's dependent status on track without another risky port-of-entry application.
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Jessica Lang helped a Canadian mechanical engineer secure TN status to continue leading a U.S. energy company where he serves in a dual executive and technical role. Given a difficult prior border experience and a complex dual-passport history, the application was filed through USCIS rather than at a port of entry, allowing the case to be approved on a strong written record before he traveled.
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Manifest Law helped a Mexican human resources manager continue her career in the U.S. with the TN visa for USMCA professionals. The engagement also secured dependent status for her family and a subsequent extension of her TN status, keeping her employment and family situation stable.
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Agnna Varinia Guzman helped a Canadian computer science professional obtain TN status to join a fully remote U.S. technology company. The strategy tackled two tough hurdles - justifying a U.S. work location for a remote-first employer and reclassifying the role to match her degree under a new USCIS policy memo - and paired meticulous documentation with careful port-of-entry planning at a Canadian preclearance airport for an on-the-spot approval.
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Christian Herrmann helped a Canadian professional secure TN work authorization to take on a new role in the U.S. With the client's start date only weeks away, the case was prepared on a tight turnaround to meet the employer's deadline.
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Elizabeth Mavec helped a Canadian designer secure TN status to join a U.S. design firm. When state licensing rules made the architecture category unworkable, she repositioned the case under the interior designer category, mapping the client's architecture training and technical skills to the new role, and prepped her thoroughly for the border interview, resulting in a full three-year approval.
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Henry Lindpere helped a Canadian growth leader at a quantum computing software startup secure TN status. The client had doubted he could qualify given a degree outside his day-to-day role, but the case successfully aligned his graduate education and cross-functional business experience with a TN professional category, allowing him to join the startup's U.S. operations quickly.
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Avalon Paul helped a Canadian management consultant start her new role in the U.S. with a first-time TN visa. The case was built around a job offer from a management consulting firm and a tight timeline that required approval before her early-fall start date. The application was prepared and approved quickly so she could begin work on schedule.
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Carmiann Cespedes helped a Mexican HR professional extend her TN status through a USCIS filing, allowing her to continue working in the U.S. without interruption. The case also included a companion TD filing so a family member's status stayed aligned with hers, and the client later returned to the firm for additional work.
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Henry Lindpere helped a Canadian executive leadership consultant secure a TN visa in the management consultant category. Her work advising major professional sports teams and entertainment companies through a U.S. consulting firm anchored the case, with over a decade of documented consulting experience offsetting a degree in an unrelated field. The application was prepared for adjudication at a Canadian port of entry and approved.
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Henry Lindpere helped a Canadian executive coach secure a TN visa in the management consultant category. His work providing executive coaching and cultural development consulting to U.S. clients through an American consulting firm anchored the petition, which was carefully documented given the heightened scrutiny that category receives. The case was approved within days of submission.
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Arit Butani helped a Nepal-born professional start a new role in the U.S. with a TN visa. The client engaged Manifest shortly after receiving her offer letter, and the case moved on a fast timeline from filing to approval. Her prior history of authorized work in the U.S. helped ensure a smooth transition into the new position.
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Arit Butani helped a Canadian professional take up a new U.S. job offer with a TN visa. Her employer had no prior experience with TN filings, so the case centered on crafting an offer letter and support documentation that mapped her education and specialized experience to the visa requirements. The application was approved the same day it was presented.
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Lahaina Araneta helped a Canadian marketing consultant begin serving a U.S. hospitality client with a TN visa while keeping his home base in Canada. The case navigated the management consultant category, one of the trickier TN classifications, by carefully documenting more than three years of consulting on brand strategy, marketing campaigns, and event management for hotel groups on both sides of the border.
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Henry Lindpere helped a fast-growing robotics startup bring a new professional hire into the U.S. on a TN visa. The application was built around a carefully documented professional role and was approved at the border the same day, letting the new team member enter and start work immediately.
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Rozar Kosmaci helped a Canadian professional begin working in the U.S. with a TN visa. The team prepared the full application package on a rapid turnaround, and the visa was approved the same day the application was submitted. The client praised the smooth end-to-end process and the team's command of the case.
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Rami Lee helped an Iranian-born software engineer secure a TN visa to co-found his own startup. The case required careful structuring, since the client was leaving a stable job to work for a new company he partly owned - an ownership wrinkle that demanded precise role and entity planning. Manifest moved on the client's tight timeline and secured approval within a week of filing.
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Manifest Law helped a Mexican graphic and web designer transition from expiring F-1 OPT work authorization to an approved TN visa. Her employer's job description was carefully reworked to align with TN professional category requirements, and the petition was filed directly with USCIS for speed. The approval let her continue her design career in the U.S. without interruption.
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Rozar Kosmaci helped an Indian-born Canadian professional secure a TN visa to join a virtual assets company in the U.S. The team worked directly with the company's founder and CEO to assemble the job offer and supporting documentation. The application was prepared quickly and approved the same day it was presented.
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Rami Lee helped a lead product manager move from a dependent visa to her own TN work status under the management consultant category. The case was built on her master's degree in business administration, which aligned closely with her job duties, and over a year of experience performing the role at a consulting firm that fully supported the petition.
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Carmiann Cespedes helped a Canadian professional working in project management software start working in the U.S. with the TN visa. The team prepared him thoroughly for tough questioning at the border, and the application was approved the same day it was presented. He is now building toward an O-1 visa as his next step.
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Carmiann Cespedes helped a Mexican financial services professional keep her career on track in the U.S. with the TN visa. Her employer's outside immigration counsel had declined to handle the petition, citing risk of denial, as her J-1 status neared expiration. The case succeeded by clearly aligning her degree with her job duties at the global financial services firm, and the approval came within a day of filing.
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Rami Lee helped a Canadian registered nurse expand her career in the U.S. with a second TN visa. Already working full-time in nursing under an existing TN, she received an offer for an additional contractor position and needed authorization to work for both employers. The petition was prepared on an urgent timeline so she could start the new role within weeks, and it was approved the same day it was submitted.
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Rami Lee helped a management professional move from dependent status to her own TN visa to take a managerial role at a Fortune 500 e-commerce company. The case was built on her MBA and the close fit between her new job duties and the appropriate NAFTA professional category. The petition was turned around quickly so she could meet her imminent start date.
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Rami Lee helped a Canadian communications specialist start her U.S. career with the TN visa under the technical writer category. The case was built on her communications degree and her role producing product and campaign briefs at a digital agency serving major beauty brands, and it was handled as a land border application to meet a fast-approaching start date.
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Manifest Law helped a Mexican psychologist continue her career as a therapist in the U.S. with the TN visa. With her student work authorization about to expire, the team guided her through consular appointment rescheduling and expedite strategy, building the application on her psychology degree and a U.S. master's in criminology to qualify under the psychologist category.
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Manifest Law helped a Canadian professional secure TN status. The engagement focused on refining the employer support letter and supporting documents and preparing the client for the officer interview.
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Rami Lee helped a Canadian engineer take up a senior solutions engineering role in the U.S. with the TN visa. Working against a start date only weeks away, the case leveraged his engineering degree and a well-organized evidence package to win approval in time for him to begin work on schedule.
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This database includes a featured selection of Manifest Law's approvals. It is not necessarily representative of every historical approval.
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