track, my brother is an american born citizen and i also have lived in the united states before for about 4 years. " Are either of your parents citizens? That would help a lot. "When we moved back to Canada we were planing to go back for a month or so and apply for a green card but decided that there was no use." Ya it will be difficult for you to get a green card straight up without an american parent or spouse at that age. "Now my question to you is that accounting which is in the same field as marketing is stated on the NAFTA TN-1 status job list and marketing isnt? Why is that?" Basically NAFTA views certain jobs under tb-1 jobs that are eligible for immigration with a tn visa. This makes it easy to work in the us but not to immigrate ie. path to naturalization aka citizenship. Basically the accountants as a profession in north america are very similarly regulated as a profession. That is a Canadian and USA accountant work almost off the same rules and countries like Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman, and other small rich countries ie.uae hire accountants from canada, usa, uk routinely especially now that accountants are moving away from gapp towards internationally unified standards. Marketing for whatever reason is not viewed as important part of nafta, it was a political decision. It takes 9 years to become an accountant but anyone can do marketing. " Can i still get