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This builder prepares TN documents for citizens of Canada and Mexico. Choose your profession first — the questions change to match it.
What you’ll need (about 10 minutes)
- Your job offer or job description: title, start date, pay and schedule
- 3 to 8 main duties, in your employer’s words if possible
- Your credentials: exact degree, designation or licence names, issuing bodies and years
- Employer details: legal name, U.S. address, and who will sign the letter
- Where you’ll work: on-site, hybrid or remote, and the U.S. city
- Travel plans: airport or land crossing, and any family coming with you
Not sure about something? Your answers save as you go, so you can come back to it. You can also add optional details like bonus, benefits and time percentages, or skip them.
Who this builder is for
This builder prepares TN documents for Canadian citizens applying at a U.S. land border or Canadian airport preclearance, and for Mexican citizens applying for a TN visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate in Mexico. TNPath does not determine whether you qualify.
Your letter won’t describe you as currently in TN status. It will ask that you be admitted in TN status to work for the Company.
About you
Your name and details appear in the letter and on your checklist exactly as entered.
Enter your name exactly as it appears in your Canadian passport.
Your trip
Your credentials
These are the credentials your letter describes and your checklist references.
Enter the credentials you hold, with the exact names shown on your records. The quoted TN list entry is a reference — filling in these fields does not confirm that you meet it.
Three separate things, asked separately. (1) The credential you hold: the TN list entry for Registered Nurse reads “State/provincial license; or Licenciatura Degree.” Record the one you actually hold — a degree below, a licence here; you never need to affirm a licence to describe a Licenciatura. (2) Whether you are licensed to practise in the U.S. state where you’ll work. (3) Your VisaScreen® certificate status. Recording a credential never means TNPath has assessed whether it is sufficient.
U.S. law requires foreign-educated nurses to present a VisaScreen® certificate to be admitted to work, and practising in a U.S. state requires that state’s licence — both separate from the credential above, and both covered in your guide. If you hold neither a state/provincial licence nor a Licenciatura degree, TNPath can’t build this packet: that’s a product limitation, not a judgement about your situation.
The list accepts a degree or a state/provincial licence. Practising pharmacy in the U.S. is separate: every state licenses pharmacists. Your guide covers both.
Only a licence you affirm holding is named in the letter. State practice rules are separate from the TN credential rule.
The letter names the licence by who issued it, for example “a provincial land surveyor licence”.
The TN list names a degree in hotel/restaurant management for this profession.
The TN list entry reads: “M.L.S. or B.L.S. (for which another Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree was a prerequisite).” Tick the degree toggle above and add the degree itself in the degrees list, so the letter can name it.
Add that bachelor’s degree in the degrees list above if you’d like it named in the letter.
One point to check before you rely on this packet. The TN list entry for Librarian reads: “M.L.S. or B.L.S. (for which another Baccalaureate or Licenciatura Degree was a prerequisite).” In that wording, another bachelor’s degree is named as a prerequisite for the library degree. TNPath doesn’t assess how this applies to you — consider an independent review by a U.S. immigration lawyer.
The TN list entry covers an adjuster employed by an insurance company, or an independent claims adjuster. The letter states the one you choose.
The TN list requires this training on both routes: with a degree, and with three years of claims adjustment experience.
The TN list counts a post-secondary diploma only when it was issued by an accredited Canadian or U.S. institution after two or more years of post-secondary education. A shorter program doesn’t meet that definition. (The list’s “Post-Secondary Certificate” is defined as a Mexican credential.)
On this route, the list pairs the diploma with three years of experience.
USCIS guidance says the theoretical knowledge this category needs can be shown by at least two years of training in a relevant program, documented by a diploma or certificate.
The TN list names a diploma in hotel/restaurant management for this profession, paired with three years of experience in hotel/restaurant management.
The experience route is shown by statement or professional credential, usually letters from past employers or clients.
The Economist entry lists a degree only. There is no licence or experience route. USCIS guidance looks for a degree related to the position.
A degree isn’t required for this category. USCIS guidance says a diploma or certificate from at least two years of relevant training, or extensive directly related work experience, can show the theoretical knowledge. Add everything you have. You’ll name the professional you’ll support on the job step.
The Mathematician (including Statistician) entry lists a degree only. There is no licence or experience route.
A note on the TN list says “Mathematician” includes Actuary, and that an actuary must be recognized as one by a professional actuarial association or society operating in Canada, the U.S. or Mexico.
Use the exact names shown on your certificates and diplomas. TNPath doesn’t decide whether your credentials are sufficient.
The U.S. employer
These details identify the company sending the letter.
These details appear at the top of the letter and in the paragraph that describes the company.
Send your employer: TN explained for HR — a one-page summary written for HR teams.
Helpful next: read TN self-employment and remote work, or get TN policy change alerts by email.
Helpful next: read other TN professions, or get TN policy change alerts by email.
That doesn’t look like a U.S. ZIP code — the letter prints what you entered, so check it against the offer letter.
The employer’s hiring requirements
What the company itself requires for this position — separate from the TN list entry quoted in your letter. Only include what you’ve actually confirmed with the employer.
Enter the confirmed requirements and select “Confirmed with my employer” again if the employer or role changed. Until then, this statement is omitted from the letter.
You’ll confirm this with your employer before the letter is signed. The letter won’t mention employer requirements until you do.
Add company facts optional: year founded, size, website
The founding year and number of employees appear in the company paragraph in the Detailed letter style. The website appears with the address at the top of the letter.
Who will sign the letter
The signer is usually your hiring manager or an HR representative — someone who can confirm the details if asked.
Missing anything above? Copy a short request listing exactly what’s missing and send it to your employer yourself — you can edit it after pasting.
The job
These answers describe the role in the letter — its title, its purpose and who you report to.
Copy these from your offer letter. Your employer will check them before signing.
Add more role detail (optional)
The professional you’ll support
The TN list says a Scientific Technician/Technologist must be seeking entry to work in direct support of professionals in the listed disciplines. Your letter names this person in its own paragraph.
Where you’ll work
The U.S. city and state you’ll work from. The letter keeps the company’s address in its own paragraph.
Travel and other work sites optional
These places are written into the letter as extra work locations. Leave blank if you’ll only work at the main location.
Pay and dates
These figures appear in both your letter and your guide.
Copy the numbers from your offer letter. Your employer checks them before signing the letter.
Bonus, commission, equity or relocation optional
What you’ll actually do
Your employer reviews these descriptions of the actual work.
Add the main responsibilities, one card per duty. Start from your job description. Tap a suggestion to add it as a card, then edit it so it matches the real job.
Write each duty as one short card that starts with an action, for example “Prepare monthly financial statements”. Don’t paste a résumé paragraph or the job ad’s “we offer” lines.
Use your employer’s actual duties and the deliverables you’ll produce; specific wording is stronger than generic.
Writing help: sends this duty’s text to Anthropic’s Claude. Only the duty text and your profession name are sent — nothing else from your answers.
Describe teaching and/or research duties — the TN list limits this category to teaching or research only.
Check your answers
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Does my $99 cover another employer, or a renewal later?
No. This purchase covers your own TN application — the packet you build here, for this employer. A packet for a different employer, or a renewal application in the future, is a new application and a new $99 packet.
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Supporting documents named in your letter
Choose which documents the letter lists as enclosed.
TNPath has not inspected these documents. The letter names only the documents you confirmed you’ll include.
Tick only the documents you will actually send with the letter. Only ticked documents are listed as enclosures in the letter and in your downloads. Your passport and ID aren’t usually listed here; you present those yourself.
Your previous custom list is preserved here. Check its wording, then confirm the items below. Editing this list requires reconfirmation.Review your enclosures. Confirm each document you’ll include — nothing is confirmed until you tick it.
Optional: adjust the letter format Style, date, header and logo only — the Word file stays editable
The concise style leaves out the company’s founding year and size, and the specific benefits you named. Choose Detailed to include them.
TNPath provides templates and general information only. It is not legal advice and does not determine eligibility. Your employer must verify every statement and sign the final letter.