Some US banks have started using Trump’s anti H1-B rhetoric as an excuse to block Canadians from seeking employment in the US with TN visa. This is ridiculous xenophobia as TN visa has no relation to H1-B and doesn’t provide a pathway to immigration. TN doesn’t even count as employer sponsorship and is based on a mutual trade agreement.
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No one cares buddy, go work on Bay Street. Stop stealing American jobs.
TN has always been a loophole and economist title is straight up a lie.
You can always label it Accountant or Consultant depending on your degree and proximity to the work profile.
Yes yet another loophole that isn't being truthful
IB jobs don't even qualify, which is why this post is hilarious. You have to scam your way in.
what do you mean IB jobs dont qualify
Because they don't. Economist? Accountant? Consultant? nope
do you work at the border lol
You are a Canadian loser who is trying to gate-keep. Let’s be consistent then. How about we cancel all existing work authorizations on TN visa.
I'm American and work at the border buddy.
Yes and your wife identifies as Melania. Wake up Mr. McDonalds
stay in canada dawg, we don't have many empty roles here for ourselves
Only “Old Stock” Canadians and their DEI Beckies thrive here. Rest of us are here just to make up the numbers and god forbid if we are ambitious. If slavery is what is destined at least can wish for wealthier pay masters. Can’t work for Pennies and then get taxed to death.
womp womp, it's not that much different in the US in terms of career politics, and yall t/n visa us wage hoes are some of most annoying people from canada lol
i like canada but i'd happily support an annexation of canada if i see another kid from ivey, uoft, or waterloo acting desperate to come here
So you're indian?
TN visa doesn't qualify for IB anyway. You can monkey shit all you want but you can literally go onto a .gov website yourself and see the "designated professions" that the visa applies to.
Who MS'd the other guy who said that? Was that Ozymandia and his burner accounts? Some of you guys fried your brain on Reddit or sometbing
bunch of sour syrup suckers in the comments
I see quite a bit of hate on this one and feel obliged to tell some US folks to go fk themselves, respectfully.
Honestly, you entitled pricks think you can monopolize ambition and the epicentre of the North American finance hub by telling Canadians, some whom are closer to New York in both work performed and geographic distance, than your own damn States.
But I get it, your'e not ones to go toe to toe with competence and prove yourselves to be the better candidates. Every international student, be it Canadian or otherwise, is seen with an inherent stigma and requires a much higher threshold to be worth the effort of an onerous Visa process. It must be really take a special set of skills to lose out to talent when you're given every conceivable advantage in recruiting, 90% of which comes with your lottery at birth.
And on the note of the whole TN occupation list loophole... the list was created in 1994 with no sigificant updates since then. I can think of thousands of new jobs within the finance and technology sector that has sprung up since then, so if you're looking to revisit it, we can expand the breadth of jobs that fall in the TN by a hundred fold. Not even considering that the semantic of what you call it is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that a company has found better talent in Canada than the US and are willing to bring them on in some shape or form. Whether they're called accountants, consultants, economists or a new title altogether won't change the fact the job went to that candidate.
Let's say magically we stopped all Visa processes from Canada to the US. That still wouldn't allow you to land the job because the firms would just exapnd their Canadian office footprint and fly out colleagues on an as-needed basis. If you can't win with the cards in your favour, you can't win period. It doesn't matter if you lose to domestic talent or international talent.
tl;dr - US folks shtting on Canada can get fk'd.
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Let's call a spade a spade, most Canadians who make it over, TN or otherwise, do so because they are flat out better candidates than the other candidates. IB jobs are so much easier to get in the US that some of the analysts I've seen get through wouldn't qualify for a mid-office role at the big 5. Yeah, there are nepo hires in Canada as well but far fewer per capita jobs. You're already blocking a bunch of people from competing with Americans through the H1-B debacle and now you want to shut the door on Canadians because you'd just rather work with lower quality, but local, colleagues? Soft. Say this as someone who has done IB on both sides of border.
Recently got pulled out of a lateral process with an elite boutique sighting TN issues. The team was keen but HR was actively blocking as if their life depends on it.
Could you PM me the boutique pls? From Canada trying to lateral as well and would be good info to have so that i don't get fucked if i end up getting an offer from there.
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