Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:38 am-
As Steven says, the best you can do for now is get TD status based on your wife's TN. Don't take the advice about a Vistor's visa above. That's only needed if you aren't married, or the US doesn't recognize your marriage.
I think you may have problems if you want to work, though. If your degree is not at least very close to one on the "TN list" then you may have a very long wait. If you can't get a TN, then option 2 would be an H1B visa, but the absolute earliest you could start working on one of those is Oct 2009. and even then, there's only about a 50% chance (although higher if you have a Master's or better) that you'll get one in a given year unless they raise the quotas.
Final option is wait for your wife to qualify for a green card, and then you can get a green card at the same time as her. Once you have that, you can work at any job (just as if you were still in Canada). The problem is, it'll probably take 3-4 years for her to get a green card.