Need advice

[lisaanne]

Hi!
So I've tried to find a topic on this here but I can't. I'm currently living in a border city in Ontario, and my fiance has found a job in a nearby border city. We want to buy a house together in a city we can both commute to work from. He will still be working in the states. We will be starting the process to get him permanent residency in Canada as soon as we're married. My question's are:
a) Will us buying a house make it difficult for him to cross the border daily? All of the resources I have found say that having a job to go back to is sufficient for convincing the border that he'll go back to the states but I really don't want to make the process more difficult than it already is.
b) Is there any way for us to move his stuff over the border to Canada?
c) Is there any way to start the process before we have the official marriage certificate?

Thanks!!

 

[steerpike]

Hi!
So I've tried to find a topic on this here but I can't. I'm currently living in a border city in Ontario, and my fiance has found a job in a nearby border city. We want to buy a house together in a city we can both commute to work from. He will still be working in the states. We will be starting the process to get him permanent residency in Canada as soon as we're married. My question's are:
a) Will us buying a house make it difficult for him to cross the border daily? All of the resources I have found say that having a job to go back to is sufficient for convincing the border that he'll go back to the states but I really don't want to make the process more difficult than it already is.

He may run into problems crossing the border daily. "Owning" a house doesn't matter, its "residing" in Canada that is the issue. He needs to keep a residence in the USA

b) Is there any way for us to move his stuff over the border to Canada?

Yes you can move stuff, but you should probably wait until the PR is complete before you move everything because he faces the possibility of bening denied entry if they think he is moving here. .

c) Is there any way to start the process before we have the official marriage certificate?

Unless you want to apply common-law (and you qualify for that and want to go thru the extra hassle), then no there isnt.

 

[MapleLeafBride]

Hi!
So I've tried to find a topic on this here but I can't. I'm currently living in a border city in Ontario, and my fiance has found a job in a nearby border city. We want to buy a house together in a city we can both commute to work from. He will still be working in the states. We will be starting the process to get him permanent residency in Canada as soon as we're married. My question's are:
a) Will us buying a house make it difficult for him to cross the border daily? All of the resources I have found say that having a job to go back to is sufficient for convincing the border that he'll go back to the states but I really don't want to make the process more difficult than it already is.
b) Is there any way for us to move his stuff over the border to Canada?
c) Is there any way to start the process before we have the official marriage certificate?

Thanks!!

Before my husband found his current job, he had been visiting me in Canada for a month. I was living about 3 hours from the US/Can border at the time. Hubby went down to the US for an interview. When he returned, he got called in for questioning. We were not even considering the possibility of him commuting from Canada to work on a daily basis (who in their right mind would spend 6+ hours a day commuting?), but they were NOT okay with that idea. I had put him on my YMCA membership for a month so we could go to the gym while he was visiting and they found that and were not impressed. They let him back in the country, but stamped his passport with an exit day a month later. Said that was enough time for him to get a job and move back to the US.
Someone else on here made have more of a positive experience with your scenario, but based on the one time they thought my hubby may be living in Canada, they guards were not going to allow it. But now he comes across most weekends (just finished a 3 weekend in a row stint), and he hasn't been brought in for secondary questioning since. I guess they now see that he spends most of his time in the US and always returns Monday morning, so they don't mind.
Not ideal, but you could probably work out something with being together on weekends if you both have primary residences on your respective sides of the border.

 

[notsopatient]

Hi!
So I've tried to find a topic on this here but I can't. I'm currently living in a border city in Ontario, and my fiance has found a job in a nearby border city. We want to buy a house together in a city we can both commute to work from. He will still be working in the states. We will be starting the process to get him permanent residency in Canada as soon as we're married. My question's are:
a) Will us buying a house make it difficult for him to cross the border daily? All of the resources I have found say that having a job to go back to is sufficient for convincing the border that he'll go back to the states but I really don't want to make the process more difficult than it already is.
b) Is there any way for us to move his stuff over the border to Canada?
c) Is there any way to start the process before we have the official marriage certificate?

Thanks!!

My husband and I are in a similar situation. After we got married he moved so that we now both live in border cities and he has a job in the US. I own my own home so we were hoping he could basically "live" with me and commute daily to work.The first time he came over after we were married they gave him one month to find a residence in the new town. Even though he had a job that wasn't considered sufficient, He had to provide them with a copy of his lease to prove that he had ties to the US and prove he would not be living in Canada. He gets pulled into immigration about once every two weeks for an interview. When his six month lease got close to expiry they pulled him in to question him but luckily he had renewed for another six months. He is allowed to spend no more than three nights a week in Canada. They have him in their system and literally count the days each week. Any more than that and he would be deemed to be residing here. It is a pain but I can't complain, most people here don't get to see their spouses for months on end so I consider myself very lucky to have three nights a week.