William Truesdale - Special Advisor, US Canadian Border Issues 

 

 Biography:

Mr. Truesdale has been in the Government Service for 32 years.

He began his career with the US Immigration & Naturalization Service as a Border Patrol Agent at Laredo , Texas and worked at Brownsville Laredo, and Cotulla , Texas for approximately 4.5 years.

He was then transferred to New York City where he worked as a Criminal Investigator in the department of Justice, Investigations Branch, Immigration and Naturalization Service for approximately 2.5 years.

Thereafter, he was transferred to Buffalo , New York where he worked as Criminal Investigator, Supervisory Criminal Investigator, Assistant District Director for Investigations [Chief of Investigations], Deputy District Director and District Director [Acting]. He was the Deputy Director and District Director for the last nine years of his Federal Service. During his tenure, the Buffalo District managed all of New York State [except New York City and surrounding Counties] which includes 17 Border  Ports of Entry and 2 Pre-Flight Stations at Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario and was responsible for all US Immigration Service matters in those areas of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec that abut New York State. The Buffalo District also inspected approximately 17 million applicants for admission per year and adjudicated hundreds of thousands of Applications and Petitions for benefits under the US Immigration Laws per year, including approximately 70,000 Petitions and Applications per year for the New York District.

He has worked extensively with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [RCMP], the Provincial Police of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec , and the Regional Police within the Buffalo Area of Jurisdiction as well as with Canadian Immigration and Customs often at the highest levels.  

He has also worked with the Garda in Southern Ireland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Northern Ireland , Scotland Yard [Metropolitan London Police] and other Police and Security Forces abroad.

 Since retirement from Federal Service, he started his own Immigration Consulting, Physician Recruitment, and Economic Development Corporation, staffed with Attorney's at Law, former INS Employees, former Municipal Department Heads in the area of Economic Development, and Physicians in the United States and abroad, particularly Canada ,  Ireland , The United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa .

Currently, he is a Special Advisor on US Canadian Border Issues to George R. Willy, P.C .

Position: Special Advisor

Education:  

Practice Areas: US Canadian Border Issues