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My story about TN Rejection at Blaine POE

Throwaway here but wanted to share my experience at Blaine POE.

I work as a SWE for a medium-size company in Vancouver, Canada. I was in the process of transferring to HQ in California and had paperwork prepared by lawyers for TN application. I have Canadian citizenship and have been working for the Canadian company for 3+ years. As far as I understand, since I am capable of doing this job I am qualified to do this job under the Engineer category under TN status. I asked my company about L1 visa but it seems like they don't do it.
I drove to Blaine POE to apply for the TN visa. I provided my paperwork and was made to wait in the car. After two hours of officers asking the same questions like "What are you job duties, why are you qualified, etc". They asked me about why my employer didn't petition for L1 and I mentioned that I'm not aware and it seemed like the employer didn't do L1s. After about 2 hours of this, I was taken inside their building for 3 hours.

This is when things turned south. The CBP officer said that I was found inadmissible due to applying for TN status and not L1. I was not allowed to contact my immigration lawyers and they said they were going to ban me for 5 years from entering the U.S. I was then detained and asked to give sworn testimony. They made me take testimony about three times, each time asking me the same questions. I explained that the TN application was put together by my company, and this visa was decided on with HR. I also said on record that I am not aware why L1 wasn't chosen or if the company didn't see me for it. After 3 hours of detention and interrogation, they decided I did not have malicious intention and would give me the option of withdrawing my application, which I did. They gave me a summary of the testimony (I867, no I-275 was issued to me). It seemed crazy because the entire time I was honest and straightforward with all my answers, they seemed intent on trying to nail something on my application.

I though the shenanigans would end there, but as I was leaving to go back to my car and drive back to Canada, I see officers running after me screaming to stop! I stopped the car and they said they were using my car to train K-9s (?!) and they pulled out a large fruit from my wheelbarrow. I don't know how this is legal but it seemed crazy and I just laughed at this...

Speaking to the immigration lawyer, they said their determination was incorrect but obviously I would not argue with CBP officer at this point and just wanted to go home.

TLDR; Blaine POE CBP officer though that because I seemed to qualify for L1 status, they interrogated me and rejected my TN application and threatened me for 5 year ban from USA.

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