New Protocol at Northern Border Could Strand Canadian Workers

The process for bringing skilled Canadian workers into the U.S. was supposed to be quick and easy. That’s no longer the case.

Canadians who had been working in the U.S. in a temporary immigration status known as L-1 now aren’t allowed to renew that status at ports of entry. After at least 20 years of adjudicating those renewal applications, Customs and Border Protection officers are telling the workers they need to file applications instead with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The CBP says Homeland Security Department regulations require the change.

The shift is leaving skilled Canadian workers stuck outside the ...