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It's a relief to hear that among all the complications of establishing a home together, PR restrictions on her remote work don't need to be one of them! We will definitely hire a cross-border tax accountant to help us figure out our situation on that side of things. Thank you both for your help.

Dear CanadaVisa, does anyone know of any reason that a US citizen could not keep their US job and work remotely while living in Canada with Canadian PR? Assuming of course that the employer is agreeable and that residency requirements are met. It would involve a lot of cross-border travel, at...

Dear CanadaVisa, My spouse received an invitation to use the PR Confirmation Portal (yay!). However, she is only visiting me here (on a tourist visa). We indicated her address had changed to Canada for the duration of her visa because we knew we wouldn't be able to visit and check mail in the...

Great news. Thanks for your help.

I see, thank you for this advice and the link! So based on the 2/5 year requirement, she could in principle visit as soon as she received approval to execute her PR status, and then return to her US job so long as she moved to Canada within the next couple of years - am I reading that correctly?

Dear Canada Visa, My US fiancee and I will be married in May 2019, and are planning for her to move to Canada about 1.5 to 2 years after that. It looks like a spousal Outland Sponsorship will be the way to go (applying after our marriage). I believe this gets her a PR card, please correct me if...

Dear Helena, thanks for the reassurance! It's good to know that the timeline is not too time consuming - 5 months is pretty reasonable. The situation going Southbound is also less problematic than I had imagined. We'll make sure to travel with documents showing ties to the US/Canada. But...

My American fiancée and I (Canadian) want to cohabit eventually, but have good jobs in our respective countries and don't yet know whether better opportunity will lie in the US or Canada. We also don't want to undermine the eventual immigration that one of us will have to do by getting married...