TN Treaty Nationals (Canadians & Mexicans)
NAFTA / TLC Appendix 1603.D.1 Professionals
TN Non-immigrant Category Profession Minimum Education Requirements and Alternative Credentials (Requires a bonafide temporary job offer by a U.S. based employer.)

Listed in 4 Categories: General | Medical/Allied Professional | Scientist | Teacher |

General

Accountant Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or C.P.A., C.A., C.G.A. or C.M.A.

Architect Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Computer Systems Analyst Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience

Disaster Relief Insurance Claims Adjuster Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree, and (claims adjuster employed by an insurance successful completion of training in the appropriate company located in the territory of a Party,areas of insurance adjustment pertaining to disaster or an independent claims adjuster) relief claims; or three years experience in claims adjustment and successful completion of training in the appropriate areas of insurance adjustment pertaining to disaster relief claims

Economist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Engineer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Forester Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Graphic Designer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post- Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience

Hotel Manager Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree in hotel/restaurant management; or Post-Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate in hotel/restaurant management, and three years experience in hotel/restaurant management

Industrial Designer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post- Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience

Interior Designer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post- Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience

Land Surveyor Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial/federal license

Landscape Architect Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Lawyer (including Notary in the L.L.B., J.D., L.L.L., B.C.L. or Licenciatura Degree Province of Quebec) (five years); or membership in a state/ provincial bar Librarian M.L.S. or B.L.S. (for which another Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree was a prerequisite)

Management Consultant Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or equivalent professional experience as established by statement or professional credential attesting to five years experience as a management consultant, or five years experience in a field of specialty related to the consulting agreement

Mathematician (including Statistician) Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Range Manager/Range Conservation[ist] Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Research Assistant (working in a Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree post-secondary educational institution)

Scientific Technician/Technologist Possession of (a) theoretical knowledge of any of the following disciplines: agricultural sciences, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, forestry, geology, geophysics, meteorology or physics; and (b) the ability to solve practical problems in any of those disciplines, or the ability to apply principles of any of those disciplines to basic or applied research

Social Worker Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Sylviculturist (including Forestry Specialist) Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Technical Publications Writer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post- Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, and three years experience

Urban Planner (including Geographer) Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Vocational Counsellor Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Medical/Allied Professional

Dentist D.D.S., D.M.D., Doctor en Odontologia or Doctor en Cirugia Dental; or state/provincial license

Dietitian Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Medical Laboratory Technologist (Canada)/ Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or Post- Medical Technologist (Mexico and the Secondary Diploma or Post-Secondary Certificate, United States) and three years experience

Nutritionist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Occupational Therapist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Pharmacist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Physician (teaching or research only) M.D. or Doctor en Medicina; or state/provincial license

Physiotherapist/Physical Therapist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree; or state/provincial license

Psychologist State/provincial license; or Licenciatura Degree

Recreational Therapist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Registered Nurse State/provincial license; or Licenciatura Degree

Veterinarian D.V.M., D.M.V. or Doctor en Veterinaria; or state/provincial license

Scientist

Agriculturist (including Agronomist) Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Animal Breeder Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Animal Scientist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Apiculturist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Astronomer Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Biochemist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Biologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree Chemist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Dairy Scientist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Entomologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Epidemiologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Geneticist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Geologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Geochemist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Geophysicist (including Oceanographer in Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree Mexico and the United States)

Horticulturist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Meteorologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Pharmacologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Physicist (including Oceanographer in Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree Canada)

Plant Breeder Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Poultry Scientist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Soil Scientist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Zoologist Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Teacher

College Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

Seminary Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree

University Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree