VisaPlace.com. What happens if your TN Visa application is refused? It's an

unfortunate situation. It happens fairly frequently, depending upon the

case. Your refusal can be based on the fact that your job offer did not

appear on the NAFTA list of occupations, or that the description of your

job was not properly drafted, or there's a problem with the U.S. employer

or perhaps what you said at the border when you had your TN Visa interview

raised some concerns. There are a lot of reasons why your TN Visa could be

refused. We have a U.S. visa team who deals with TN

Visa applications as well as TN Visa refusals. So if you are in the unfortunate

position where you tried to apply for a TN and the NAFTA officer at the

border denied you, what can you do? Well first of all, you have to be aware

of the reasons why your application was refused and in most cases

the officer will tell you their concerns. If that happens, depending upon

the reason you could reapply. There's nothing preventing you from reapplying.

In most cases, however, there has to be a change in circumstances or

additional documentation that wasn't filed originally and you have to

explain why it wasn't filed in the first place, because an officer will be

skeptical if you apply for a TN Visa and then you're coming back to the

border once again to try it again. So you have to really make a case as to

what was the reason why there was a lack of documentation or information in

the first place that caused the refusal and here is the additional

information. What we do when someone comes to us who says,

"My TN Visa was rejected," we look at the case in detail and many times

the application was just not prepared properly. A TN Visa application generally

is easy to get if you do it right. You just go to the border, you present

your documentation, proof of citizenship, your job offer letter and

your credentials and then the officer will review your paperwork and will

be able to issue you a visa right then and there on the spot. So it's

a great way of getting a visa very quickly but if it's not done right, it's

likely you'll be refused. So sometimes a job offer letter itself is just

not structured properly. For example, the job offer letter has to have

the salary, the duties, the name of the company obviously, the description

of why it is that company needs you, and the job title. This is common

sense, but you'd be surprised how many job offers we see that just don't

have the basic elements. The other side of the equation is the credentials

of the employee. In most cases, TN Visa applicants need a certain level

of education. Some of these applicants have gotten their

education from overseas and not from Canada, for example. That's fine, but

there has to be an equivalency analysis, equivalency letter explaining that

the education received overseas is still equivalent to a North American

degree or diploma. But in addition to that, what about the job credentials?

You have to show job credentials, that you do qualify. There's

a lot that goes in to TN Visa applications, even though they are very simple

in some ways. Because you can get them right away, you have

to make a strong case. So how we handle it, our TN Visa team handles all

TN Visa applications as well as TN Visa rejections. When people do come to

us, we analyze it, we put it together, and sometimes we have to deal with

the employer as well to redo the paperwork. Of course, all applications

have to be 100% truthful. There can be no misrepresentation of the nature

of job and the credentials of the applicant. But that doesn't mean that the

first time around you should have gotten it in the first place.

Sometimes it means that your paperwork was not properly prepared. So

hopefully this gives you some idea that there is some hope for anyone who

was refused a TN Visa. Thank you for listening, and have a great day. Oh,

one thing before I go. You can go to our website, www.visaplace.com for

more information about TN Visas. Now I'll say thank you and have a great

day.