It is a typical scene,
rehashed over and at the different U.S.- Canada fringe posts. A youthful
Canadian official methodologies an officer of the United States Department of
Homeland Security, and gives her a little heap of reports arranged for him by
the HR Manager of his imminent business.
"I'm here to apply for a
TN visa," announces the candidate.
"In what class?"
"Uh... Administration
Consultant."
The movement officer looks at the
records with a demeanor of dislike and advises the candidate to sit down and
Management
Consulting in Phoenix . After thirty minutes the
officer calls the candidate into an office and subjects him to a difficult hour
of interrogation.
"What is this?"
requests the officer, pushing a bit of letterhead in his face.
The candidate peers at the
report. "It's a letter from the organization that needs to contract
me."
"It's too short and
doesn't depict an administration issue," says the officer, hurling aside
the letter and hauling out another record. "What about this?"
"That is my resume,"
answers the candidate, his face turning red.
"Uh, huh..." says
the officer. "Exactly what are you attempting to pull here?"
"What do you mean?"
asks the candidate.
"You're no Management
Consultant. You don't have any administration encounter."
Et cetera...
The outcome: Denial of the TN
application. The reason: Either the position or the candidate don't fit the
bill for the Management Consultant assignment. The outcomes: Lost time, lost
cash, loss of a possibly profitable representative, loss of a lucrative opening
for work, and embarrassment.
The Management Consultant
Category - An Incorrectly Perceived Loophole
As the vast majority
associated with HR Management know, the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) has disentangled the position of certain Canadian experts into
popularity employments in the United States. For whatever length of time that
the competitor fits into the cutout proficient classifications recorded in
Appendix 1603.D.1 of the NAFTA, the intrigued organization can stay away from
the more extended preparing times and higher expenses related with the H-1B
visa.
The vast majority of the NAFTA
classifications require no less than a four year certification. What's more, as
long as the applicant can demonstrate he or she has the required training,
endorsement of a TN visa is practically guaranteed. For instance, a Canadian
Engineer with a four year college education ought to experience no difficulty
meeting all requirements for a situation as an Engineer with a U.S.
organization.
A couple of NAFTA classes, in
any case, take into consideration the substitution of work involvement instead
of a four year college education. One of these is the Management Consultant
class, which permits "five years of experience as an administration
advisor, or five years involvement in a field of claim to fame identified with
the counseling assention" to substitute for a missing four year college
education.
Shockingly, the Management
Consultant class is erroneously seen by numerous HR Managers as a kind of
"escape clause" in the migration law which enables them to put very
much qualified competitors who have not finished a formal degree program, but
rather who are generally fit the bill for the position offered as a result of
their involvement in the subject field.
Along these lines, HR Managers
every now and again send non-degreed people, for example, PC experts with no
administration experience to the outskirt, supposedly to acknowledge an
occupation in the States as an "Administration Consultant"; or they
send non-degreed applicants with administration experience to the fringe, with
the plan of putting them in long haul administration positions with U.S.
organizations. Applications, for example, these are perpetually destined to
disappointment.
Why the Management Consultant
Designation is So Difficult to Obtain
USCIS Free Trade Officers are
very much aware of the misperceptions that exist with respect to the Management
Consultant classification. They mediate and deny endless sham TN applications
in this class once a day. So at whatever point somebody presents at a U.S.-
Canada fringe with a TN application looking for confirmation through the
Management Consultant classification, the officer's protect quickly goes up.
While it is troublesome for
the officer to deny a TN visa when the candidate has a college degree, it is
genuinely simple to address whether a non-degreed candidate's experience is
"important" to the Management Consultant position advertised. It is
essential to understand that U.S. migration law gives its Free Trade Officers
finish and liberated caution to settle on a choice on a NAFTA visa application.
Disavowals are not appealable. In this way, when they have a chance to utilize
this watchfulness, they do so...with a retribution.
No doubt about it: the Free
Trade Officer will experience each expression of a TN application, contrast the
candidate's CV and her business based reference letters to search for logical
inconsistencies and break down the organization's introductory letter and its
budgetary proclamations. At last, the officer will altogether flame broil the
candidate regarding her affirmed related knowledge and her proposed obligations
with the new organization. Most applications in the Management Consultant class
don't hold up under this kind of investigation.
All in all, What Exactly is a
Management Consultant Anyway?
In spite of the conviction of
most HR Managers, an "Administration Consultant' (for reasons for U.S.
migration law) isn't a supervisor. An "Administration Consultant" is
a specialist to administration enlisted by an association to help fathom a
specific here and now administration issue. Unhindered commerce Officers see
these specialists as "enlisted firearms": they are procured to tackle
a specific issue, and afterward they should get out. Offers of organization
advantages, for example, retirement and 401K designs, investment opportunities,
and life coverage are conflicting with this view. These kinds of advantages are
generally trappings of a lasting worker, not a transient brief representative.
In this way, at least, the
organization's introductory letter to the INS should state with distinction the
administration issue to be settled, the purpose behind the transient
requirement for an outside specialist, how the candidate is fit the bill to
take care of the issue, and the terms of pay. The application ought to likewise
incorporate a definite CV which archives something like five entire long
periods of significant experience, and also point by point reference letters
from every single past boss reliable with the CV. Logical inconsistencies
between any of the above records will be noted by the Free Trade Officer, and
will probably result in the refusal of a TN visa.
The Effect of Past Denials
All isn't lost if a TN visa is
denied by a Free Trade Officer. That equivalent finish and liberated
watchfulness used by one Free Trade Officer enables the following officer to
re-consider an application as though introduced out of the blue, if the officer
wishes to do as such. Along these lines, it is totally feasible for a candidate
to be declined by one officer at Niagara Falls toward the beginning of the day
and conceded by another officer at Pearson International Airport toward the
evening, with no change to the application However, our firm does not suggest
the last methodology, since a few officers will see indistinguishable day
reapplication from an endeavor to play the framework.
Our firm has effectively
helped a bunch of people who have been declined once, twice or even three
times. (Obviously, the more occasions one has been can't, the more troublesome
the case turns into.) Our undertaking as experienced migration legal counselors
is the equivalent in these cases: a.) Complete assessment of the Applicant and
the Proposed Employment; b.) Selection of the Proper Visa Category; and c.)
Assembly of the most USCIS-Friendly Visa Application Possible.
A few Recommendations
It is in every case better for
all gatherings concerned if, rather than endeavoring to deal with critical
movement matters without anyone else, HR Managers and potential TN candidates
set aside the opportunity to counsel with a migration proficient before applying
for a visa. The funds in time, cash and disappointment are certainly justified
regardless of the speculation. Nonetheless, on the off chance that they demand
taking care of these fragile cases without anyone else, it is useful to
remember the accompanying:
1. A
Management
Consultant is an employed firearm a specialist to administration
procured to take care of a transient administration issue;
2. A Management Consultant
ought not be repaid far beyond the base pay;
3. A non-degreed candidate must
have at least five finish long stretches of undeniable experience as an expert
to administration or in a field of strength identified with the counseling
understanding. Ensure you have the archives to demonstrate every one of the
five years;
4. There ought to be no
disparities at all between any of the reports introduced to the Free Trade
Officer;
5. The candidate ought to be
set up to answer wisely, and in detail, the officer's inquiries with respect
to: a.) the candidate's past involvement, and b.) the administration issue he
or she is being enlisted to settle;
6. A TN application must be
made related to a "passage". Along these lines, the candidate ought
not be told to drive to the outskirt ahead of time to check whether the officer
will issue the visa; lastly
7. Keep in mind forget that
Free Trade Officers have finish and liberated attentiveness to manage on NAFTA
cases. Thusly, the candidate should give as respectful a disposition as could
be expected under the circumstances.
