Comment by tnthrowaway
4 days ago
Hi Peter!
There's a lot of confusion and uncertainty around a June policy update regarding TN visa (some related links in https://www.reddit.com/r/tnvisa/comments/1lerikw/nonengineer...). At least one big tech (my personal anecdote that I don't feel comfortable sharing) temporarily paused new TN applications for software engineers with a CS degree, citing this change.
This seems to have always been a fuzzy area on paper, and some people in this category apparently still got their TN in the past month after this change. Is this a material change in your mind? If so, how are employers responding to it?
Recently I heard of an instance where CBP denied a TN application by an applicant with a CS degree for a software engineering position. While this is of course concerning, this has always been a potential issue - I've seen this happen several times over the years - and there are ways to mitigate the risk (by, for example, highlighting the applicant's engineering courses or getting a letter from the school or an expert in the field). We have continued to pursue TNs for software engineers with CS degrees and have not had any issue yet.