Please Help, American husband and I'm Canadian

[MrsTanner28]

Me and my husband married this past December. We're in the process of deciding where to live. America or Canada. We are confident in the process of how to move to America, but we are inquiring on the process to get him to Canada. I was told by a Canadian lawyer that they could have him here within 6 months working. Is there any truth? Could someone take pity on me and point me in the right direction with paperwork and a time line.

Thank you

 

[Landagirl]

Me and my husband married this past December. We're in the process of deciding where to live. America or Canada. We are confident in the process of how to move to America, but we are inquiring on the process to get him to Canada. I was told by a Canadian lawyer that they could have him here within 6 months working. Is there any truth? Could someone take pity on me and point me in the right direction with paperwork and a time line.

Thank you

It seems to be about 4-6 months, depends on how straight forward your application is and if you forgot anything etc. We applied Outland, my Husband is an American as well. It took us 5 months, we are just waiting for his landing papers. CIC has changed the application forms so how long it will take now is any ones guess. Maybe someone with more experience with CIC can answer that one. I cant see it changing all that much, but could be wrong. Here is the link to get you started
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp

 

[Ponga]

FWIW, Canada is far more generous in terms of the requirements to maintain Permanent Residence status, versus the U.S. Green Card.

1. Canada requires that the PR spend at least 730 days (doesn't have to be consecutive days) within each rolling 5 year period to meet the residency obligations. The U.S. requires a Green Card holder to live in The U.S. at least 180 days every year.

2. You being a Canadian citizen, your husband is free to live outside of Canada and can still maintain his PR RO requirements, as long as you are living together. This means that, in theory, you could both live anywhere in the world and he would still meet the PR RO, even without spending a single day in Canada after you both leave. Pretty generous, eh?!

 

[Pontianak]

Me and my husband married this past December. We're in the process of deciding where to live. America or Canada. We are confident in the process of how to move to America, but we are inquiring on the process to get him to Canada. I was told by a Canadian lawyer that they could have him here within 6 months working. Is there any truth? Could someone take pity on me and point me in the right direction with paperwork and a time line.

Thank you

For what it's worth, I married my canadian wife around 3 years ago. We started the immigration process for her right around as we got married, and we have JUST gotten our second denial. We sent in a BOX worth of evidence and paid upward of around $10,000 US on govt and lawyers fees and where told that we didn't have enough proof of relationship. Not even having a biological child together could tip the scales on top of a box worth of chat logs, phone logs, travel to Canada and Taiwan where I lived with her and her family for upwards of a year+, etc etc. We had enough and applied to Canada for my PR in Sept 2016 and just got the final eMail asking for the final documents for the Approval landing papers. People say the Canadian system is complex, but I'd say people have no idea how bad it can be for US immigration. I'm beyond thankful for the canadian side being what it is, because I miss my family dearly.

 

[danawhitaker]

For what it's worth, I married my canadian wife around 3 years ago. We started the immigration process for her right around as we got married, and we have JUST gotten our second denial. We sent in a BOX worth of evidence and paid upward of around $10,000 US on govt and lawyers fees and where told that we didn't have enough proof of relationship. Not even having a biological child together could tip the scales on top of a box worth of chat logs, phone logs, travel to Canada and Taiwan where I lived with her and her family for upwards of a year+, etc etc. We had enough and applied to Canada for my PR in Sept 2016 and just got the final eMail asking for the final documents for the Approval landing papers. People say the Canadian system is complex, but I'd say people have no idea how bad it can be for US immigration. I'm beyond thankful for the canadian side being what it is, because I miss my family dearly.

What's sad is that this isn't the first story I've heard like this. I have a friend who married a guy from South America around the same time that you did, and they also have not gotten approved. She's living with him in his home country, for now. It's at the point that I don't really ask them about it because I don't want to make them feel worse about their position. She rarely gets to see her family, and she's unable to work and gets frustrated sitting at home doing nothing all day.

I researched the U.S. system prior to getting married. The U.S. system seems incredibly complex. That's not to say that the Canadian system doesn't have its complexities, but I felt by investing time (both on these forums and with the forms and guides themselves) that I could do it without involving a lawyer. That, plus knowing what I did about my friend's experience...well, I can say that made it a very easy choice.

 

[Pontianak]

What's sad is that this isn't the first story I've heard like this. I have a friend who married a guy from South America around the same time that you did, and they also have not gotten approved. She's living with him in his home country, for now. It's at the point that I don't really ask them about it because I don't want to make them feel worse about their position. She rarely gets to see her family, and she's unable to work and gets frustrated sitting at home doing nothing all day.

I researched the U.S. system prior to getting married. The U.S. system seems incredibly complex. That's not to say that the Canadian system doesn't have its complexities, but I felt by investing time (both on these forums and with the forms and guides themselves) that I could do it without involving a lawyer. That, plus knowing what I did about my friend's experience...well, I can say that made it a very easy choice.

I've literally gotten a few gray hairs in my 30's because of the US immigration process... and the $10,000 we spent could have been used for our sons education fund, nope.. gone. I really don't want to get all political on this, but listening to some of the anti-immigration comments here in the US has literally made me cry sometimes. After going thru the US process, the Canadian process has felt like a total breeze and we did it without hiring a lawyer. I had couple questions on this forum, but I think they were pretty simple really. The hard part is family on my side, even knowing the difficulties we've faced, they are pretty upset we gave up and changed to my immigrating to Canada instead of her here in the USA.