L1 Visa

I was only specifying what not to write.

You may be an independent contractor or employee, either one.

http://www.tnvisaexpert.com/articles/tn ... onsultant/

L1 visas are only available to transfer employees to a US office. So unless you are currently working for a Canadian office of the same company and transfering, I don't know how an L1 would be an option. By the sounds of it, this isn't what you'd need.

The letter should already say you are consulting. Trouble is with the ammount of time you are doing it.

Reba you are correct i am not going to get an L1 as i am a consultant with this company my original company does not have a large presence in the US and are totally clueless. In fact the first time when i told them that i would require a Visa argued that as a Canadian i don't require any visa.

I guess the reason was that they all came to the US for either a week or a month to work attend meeting, audit etc and went back so i guess they were a little bit confused.

So you are back to your origianl Idea. As I said, all the items you first came here with are inconsequential (maneer of payemnt, sponsor, etc).

The only hiccup (and I did not intend it to seem like an insumountable hurdle) was that CBP is taking a harder line on MC's based on the that assumption that you aren't supposed to grow roots at this company that you are consulting for.

L1 visas are only available to transfer employees to a US office.

This would be part of the minimum criteria that has to be met for an L-1 Intra company Transfer processed at the border.

So you are back to your origianl Idea. As I said, all the items you first came here with are inconsequential (maneer of payemnt, sponsor, etc).

No i am thinking about getting a TN from my consulting company, currently i have a TN from my client. I doubt they will have an issue providing me with one. They are not a management consulting company but they are a consulting company

Thanks

They are not the sponsor, your client is. Besides, they don't exist in US, they are a Cdn co.

Instead of going to the POE why not file through Mail, USCIS is different then CBP.