Canadian: Nurses and Visas

canadian: Trump immigration policies kill work visas for specialized Canadian nurses Specialized Canadian nurses stress over rules preventing them from working in U.S. Canadian citizens holding these positions in the U.S. have been approved for non-immigrant professional TN visas under the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA for years, according to CBC. But that recently changed when nurses applying for renewals and new visas were being denied, according to officials at Henry Ford Hospital. Nurses and hospitals have been in a frenzy in the past week as visa applications for advanced practice nurses and advanced clinical nurse practitioners working in Detroit hospitals were denied. At least one Henry Ford nurse was turned away at the border last week. These nurses fall under the registered nurse category of the TN visa status, said Kristoffer Grogan, public affairs officer with U.S. Customs. A U.S. Customs spokesperson, on Friday, said the agency needed to get clarification on whether the specialized Canadian nurses qualified for TN visas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.