help needed - want to move to US

TN-1 basically only requires a job offer letter so basically it boils down to looking for jobs as a systems analyst on monster.com etc. There's no real difference as compared to how an American would do it, the only snag is that you cannot enter the US to look for work, you would have to set up the job interview from Canada and enter to attend that specific interview.

Pretty rare for employers to want to offer employment contracts for more than three years anyway, so that shouldn't be an issue.

If it were me I'd say work in Canada for a year or two and pad out your resumé, especially given the state of the economy at the moment.

Hey Steve I have read many of your posts and they are both correct and knowledgable. Do you mind if I ask a) what you do for living? b) how you learned so much of this stuff?

Thanks for the info

Cheers

It is still possible to conduct a U.S. job search remotely from Canada but the American economy is contracting big time and that will have massive implications for the rest of the world.

Hey Steve I have read many of your posts and they are both correct and knowledgable. Do you mind if I ask a) what you do for living? b) how you learned so much of this stuff?

Thanks for the info

Cheers

Personal experience mostly, either mine or my relatives/friends and I used to have a friend who was an attorney for INS. Plus back in ye olde days before the web, one used to have to go to seminars and learn this stuff in person. I think you learn more stuff that way, you're not going to see on the IRS website: "Don't EVER phone the regular IRS phone number for help if you're filling in a 1040NR, they're f---ing useless." Which I heard in a seminar once. Or: "not a good idea to register as a non-resident alien self-employed person - Fred audits those and he has to do something to justify his salary because there are only few hundred people registered in that category."

Actually I remember going to an INS one once and someone asked about having his sister sponsor him for permanent residence, and the greying INS guy went: "How old are you now, twenty something? By the time your visa number comes up, you'll look like me."