Canadian: Work Visas and Nurses

canadian: I don't think there's going to be an ongoing problem, according to CBC. It should've been resolved Friday, he said. Work visas restored to specialized Canadian nurses working in U.S. Trump immigration policies kill work visas for specialized Canadian nurses Bob Birach, Chair of the Michigan chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said supervisors with Customs and Border Control are again notifying all officers that advanced level Canadian nurses should be allowed into the country after widespread confusion was caused when visa applications were denied last week. We're hoping that they will actually put out some written guidance on this. Meg Roberts/CBC Nurses and hospitals were scrambling last week, but on March 17 a spokesperson for U.S. Customs clarified that specialized nurses do fall under the registered nurse category and qualify for a TN visa a non-immigrant professional visa under NAFTA they had been using for years. Nurse Patti Kunkel of LaSalle, Ont. worried that rule changes at the U.S. border could prevent her from working at Henry Ford Hospital. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.