After getting Canada citizenship , can we come to US on a TN visa directly from India if we have a employment offer from US.
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Orginally posted by canadapr
After getting Canada citizenship , can we come to US on a TN visa directly from India if we have a employment offer from US.
When you are travelling into US from outside of western hemisphere you need to get a TN stamp on the passport at the US consulate India. If you are applying at any POE in Canada or Mexico, you don't need a visa stamp on your passport
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Thanks a lot Maple_asian. To get the TN visa at an indian consulate , is it the same procedure like a H1B visa for an indian national. Wait period of 3 months or so to get an appointment.
Or the dual citizens will have a seperate queue. If I take dual citizenship on which passport do I need to travel. Indian or Canadian.
Can someone please clarify.
I am not sure how long the wait would be. First of all, India does not have dual citizenship. You will have to surrender your Indian passport to get a Canadian passport. And obviously since you plan to get a TN Visa, you would travel on a Canadian passport otherwise how would you get a TN visa in the first place?
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Posted on: 10-01-06 13:49:54
Please see links below. Per those links, my understanding is that as a Canadian citizen, you could enter US without a stamped visa even if you are on TN non-immigrant status. Please correct me if I am wrong on this.
General link for Cdn Citizens wishing to enter US:
http://www.amcits.com/foreign.asp#canadians
This link provides details of Canadian citizens that need stamped visas:
http://www.amcits.com/exceptions.asp
As far as queues are concerned, US consulates don't give a damn what passport(s) you hold. Everybody goes through the same slaughter line. US citizens, however, get priority handling and treatment at the consulates.
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Dimple2001
Yes I think you are wrong. Though I am not sure, I would tend to believe the post by maple_asian earlier where he/she says that if entering the US from outside the western hemisphere(I would take that to mean Canada/Mexico for the best part) you need a visa stamped.
The link that you had mentioned saying that if you are a citizen you don't need a visa to enter the US mentions this in the very first line -> see the sentence -
"Ordinarily, Canadian citizens require neither a passport nor a visa to enter the United States directly from Canada."
As you can see it mentions "directly from Canada"
While the second link does not explicitly mention this, I think once you are not entering the US from Canada, nothing is really sure. So I believe it would be safer to find out from the US consulate.. before hand or just call the US Border Security for that Port of entry.
|If you are a Canadian citizen and are entering the US from a 3rd country purely on a VISITOR basis, then you do not need a visa stamp in your passport. I have done this many times (entering the US via the San Juan, PR airport coming from the caribbean).
