Hello all, hopefully this is the right thread, apologies if it’s not.
So my wife and I are Canadians living in the US. I am working under a P1 visa, and she is working under a TN visa. My P1 visa expires at the end of the year and my contract was not renewed/I was not able to find another contract to extend my P1. As such, I need to change my status as my Admit until Date on my I-94 is about to come up. For now, I want to fall under my wife’s TN visa (I think it would be a TD visa) to continue living here until I can find another contract/different job and then apply for a work visa at that point.
So my plan was to drive to the border and flagpole around to change my status. Is this an option? Or is my only choice to file a I-539 from within the country and pay the (approx) $450? If flag-poling is an option, would I need anything else besides
Proof of
Canadian citizenship;
Proof of
relationship to the TN
nonimmigrant, such as a marriage certificate or birth certificate;
Photocopies of the TN
nonimmigrant's admission documents; and
Proof the TN
nonimmigrant is maintaining his or her TNnonimmigrant status.
Lastly, the part that confuses me is as a Canadian, I see I don’t need a TD, so this is something I need to actually do? I think I do just to change status but technically I wouldn’t need a TD? Not sure if that makes sense…
I appreciate any advice or input on this as I feel it is a unique circumstance. TYIA
