Does a Minden Hills veterinarian satisfy the TN profession rule before an American state licence is issued?

The Appendix 2 rule for Veterinarian is met by a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree or by state or provincial licensure, so Anneli's Ontario qualifications satisfy it. A pending state licence is not an immigration defect, but it is a practical bar, because the position she has been offered cannot lawfully be performed without the licence that state requires.

Eligible for the category, not yet permitted to practise

Separate the two findings and the confusion disappears. The profession rule looks at the applicant: a veterinary doctorate, or registration as a veterinarian in a state or a province, either of which Anneli holds. Nothing in that rule obliges her to hold the licence of the destination state at the moment she seeks admission.

The second question belongs to the state board, which decides who may diagnose, prescribe and operate within its borders, and which may require a jurisprudence examination, verification from Ontario, or an interview before granting reciprocity. An officer reviewing the case is entitled to ask how she intends to perform the described duties, and a hospital that has promised her a surgical list she cannot lawfully take is describing work that will not happen. The sensible order is to open the board file first, learn its timetable, and set a start date the licence can actually meet.