Your best bet is most likely asking the employer for whom you are already working to petition for you to receive an H-1B visa , and then to seek permanent residence. If you are eligible for a green card due to your American Indian blood and birth in Canada, you must reach its Contact Center and make an appointment with a U. At that appointment, you will request that a record of admission for permanent residence be created for you.
There is no particular application or form that you need in order to apply for a record of admission for permanent residence in these circumstances. Other non-Indian Canadians must apply for permanent residence in the United States much in the same manner as citizens of other foreign countries. Commonly used eligibility categories include through a job offer in the U.
One advantage that Canadian citizens do have, however, is that it is easy for them to enter the United States legally. With a legal entry, it becomes much simpler for those who become eligible for a green card, for example through marriage to a U.
If you are a Canadian citizen and wish to seek permanent residence in the United States, you might wish to seek counsel from an experienced U. You can go back to China any time you want. But when you can return with your wife will depend on how long it takes to process her Canadian visa. Hello I am Canadian Citizen not from birth ,i was originally born in Guyana and obtained citizenship in Canada ,then came back to Guyana , is there anyway i can loose my citizenship?
The only way your Canadian citizenship can be revoked is if you are convicted in court of fraud when completing your application for permanent residence or your application for Canadian citizenship. I am a Canadian PR holder. For the last two years I have been outside of the country, in my homeland Afghanistan.
For how long I can stay out of Canada? As a permanent resident, you can live outside of Canada, but you must live in Canada for at least two years in any five-year period. If you live outside of Canada for longer than the specific time, it is possible that you would lose your permanent resident status.
Hi Regarding Canadians spending the winter in Mexico….. Or would they be limited to the original days? Thank you. Mexico allows you to visit that country for up to consecutive days. But Mexicans are accommodating and you can go back pretty well anytime and stay another days.
BC allows you to stay out of the province for seven months in a calendar year to remain eligible for provincial health coverage. Dear sir,I am Canadian citizen. I would like to know if I can return back to Canada and still retain my citizen? My passport is invalid, can I still apply for it in order to return to Canada?
And can I apply over the Internet while I am still in Vietnam? This could be an apartment rental lease, utility bills etc. Quebec has a three-month waiting period before you can access public health insurance, so you will not receive health coverage straight away.
You should look into insurance for that period. You can replace your passport, and you should do this immediately. Contact your nearest Canadian consulate or embassy in Vietnam and they will help you. Find out more information for your return here. As a Canadian residing in BC, can I live in Mexico for 7 months a year without losing my health care benefits.
Can I do this every year. Yes you can, so far as BC is concerned. But Mexico only allows you to stay up to days for one visit. Make sure you leave within that days and turn in your tourist card. Then if you want to go back after a short while, you can. What would happen if i visited canada? Would i be allowed to visit ontario family for a month and then return to Romania? Or what prolems will i have. If you are a Canadian citizen, which you would be if you were born in Canada, you could visit your relatives in Ontario for as long as you wished.
But you certainly should have no problem with the Canadian authorities. As long as he wishes. But if he stays out longer than seven months a year he might lose his provincial health benefits. There are exemptions available for students, teachers and diplomats, and for someone who is unable to leave because they develop a medical condition while in the U.
Snowbirds establish their closer connection to Canada through things like having a permanent home, personal belongings, affiliations, family, business, driver's licence and having voted in Canada. Quebec and Prince Edward Island require six months' residency, but Quebec does not count trips of less than 21 days as non-residency.
Newfoundland and Labrador requires only four months. Nunavut and the Yukon have no residency requirements. Some provinces will allow longer absences under some circumstances or if a written request made by the resident is approved. To get provincial health benefits back after losing them usually requires living in the province for three months, at which point coverage begins again. That depends on the policy they buy.
The key things to watch for are issues around pre-existing conditions and the limitations and exclusions of the coverage. That also depends on the individual policy, but in general, most require extra measures by a resident away for a long trip.
If no one is living in the house after the snowbirds fly away, some insurers require someone a family member or acquaintance to regularly do a walk-through or check the property. At least twice in recent years, legislation has been introduced in the U.
Congress, but not passed, to extend the length-of-stay limit to days for Canadian citizens over 50 years old and their spouses. Customs and Border Protection CBP generally takes the position that a person may stay a maximum of six months per year, there is no rule or written policy that requires that limitation. So, it is true that according to current practice at U. However, the reason for barring reentry cannot be due to a non-existent six-month-maximum rule but has to be something else.
As to what that something else may be, lets consider that. Hopefully, more visitors will be able to come to America if U.
When you are entering the U. Customs and Border Protection are: a whether you are a terrorist or criminal, b whether you may endanger public health and safety, c whether you are saying that you are visiting, but in reality, you are going to work illegally, or d you are saying you are a visitor but really you live in the U.
I went into this in more detail in another article earlier. The latter two concerns are the main rationale behind the policy of U. Customs and Border Protection blocking those who have already spent six months in the U. However, as U. One of the ways to do this is to demonstrate significant ties to their home country, including proof of employment, residency, etc.
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