Consulting work in the US; tips?

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>  I've got an offer for three-days consulting work in the US. Has anyone here 
> had recent experience travel down south for work? Any tips for a painless 
> border crossing?

I've been reading this thread with interest.  Here is my take...

I'm an Australian citizen so I enter the US on a 'visa waiver' which 
specificially allows me to go to the US to work for up to 90 days so long 
as I'm employed and paid by a non-US company[1].  Thus if a Canadian 
employer sent me to the US on this basis I should have no problems as long 
as the INS agents understood their own rules.

Surely a Canadian sent south by a Canadian company should have no more 
trouble getting in to the US than I would.

Madi, do you have your own company?  If not, would it be worth setting one 
up (it can be done online very rapidly).

[1] Interestingly Journalism is specifically excluded.  A well known 
Australian journalist was detained and handcuffed a couple of years back 
before being put on a plane back to Australia for failing to understand 
this rule.

Cheers,

Rob

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