{"id":599,"date":"2012-08-23T17:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=599"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T05:19:14","slug":"tn-status-denied-at-the-pearson-airport-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"TN Status Denied at the Pearson Airport in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hi, I\u2019m the HR manager at [REDACTED] and we\u2019re having some difficulties with several TN visas that I would like to ask you about.\u00a0 We asked some of our Canadian employees to apply for TN visas at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport and they were all denied and palced on the no fly list because the proposed work was \u201cintermittent.\u201d\u00a0 We just wanted these people to come work at our US offices for a couple days out of each month.\u00a0 Does the work have to be full time and for a long duration to qualify for TN?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would recommend that you never have any of your employees enter through Pearson.\u00a0 There are other border locations that are much more suitable. \u00a0There is no full time or length requirement to qualify for a TN entry and we should be able to get this decision overturned at another border.\u00a0 Please send me copies of the CBP decisions and we can get this matter taken care of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I\u2019m the HR manager at [REDACTED] and we\u2019re having some difficulties with several TN visas that I would like to ask you about.\u00a0 We asked some of our Canadian employees to apply for TN visas at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport and they were all denied and palced on the no fly list because the proposed &#8230; <a title=\"TN Status Denied at the Pearson Airport in Toronto\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=599\" aria-label=\"Read more about TN Status Denied at the Pearson Airport in Toronto\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tn-visa","tag-tn-visa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TN Status Denied at the Pearson Airport in Toronto - US Immigration Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=599\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TN Status Denied at the Pearson Airport in Toronto - US Immigration Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I\u2019m the HR manager at [REDACTED] and we\u2019re having some difficulties with several TN visas that I would like to ask you about.\u00a0 We asked some of our Canadian employees to apply for TN visas at Toronto\u2019s Pearson airport and they were all denied and palced on the no fly list because the proposed ... 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