Also? The H1B visa is explicitly a “dual intent” visa. The TN visa isn’t. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-dual-intent-visas.html https://www.n

Also? The H1B visa is explicitly a “dual intent” visa. The TN visa isn’t. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-dual-intent-visas.html https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-are-dual-intent... The entire intention of the H1B visa, set at its outset, is to allow people to become permanent residents. The same isn’t the case for the TN visa, which is explicitly a short term work visa. But this isn’t even talking about people applying to get the visas. This is about people who were on those visas, and have applied for a green card and have been approved for a green card. It’s an administrative sleight of hand. “Yes, you’re approved for the green card as we’re promised, but unfortunately, since you were born in China, we just don’t have the paper to print it out on for right now…Why don’t you come back 50 years later…ok now get out, I need to hand the paper I don’t have for you to the guy born in Greece behind you who has been waiting all of 2 days”. Finally, if you’re a Canadian with an intention of moving to the US as a permanent resident you can absolutely apply as an H1B. Just make sure you meet all The skill requirements, none of which exist for the TN visa, convince a company to hire you, with the condition that it will take them at least a few months to know whether you can actually work for them as the govt approves the visa, convince them to pay for the legal costs and processing fees because you legally cannot, and then convince them to renew that process every 1-3 years. Then you need to convince them to apply for your permanent residency, in a 3 stage process that involves proving that no one else born in the U.S. can do the job as wel as you, after having spent at least 6 months advertising, then spending another stage of applications proving you will contribute to the US’s benefit, and then finally getting approval for you to be a green card holder. Now, congratulations. As a Canadian citizen were you born in Canada, because then you will be shipped your green card tomorrow. But as a Canadian citizen were you born in China? Well, I guess 50+ years later we might ship you your green card. India? 180+ years. Oh, as an aside if you were in the latter 2 categories, do keep in mind that the 2 and 4 year old kids will have no path to remaining in the US once they turn 21.