38
Any Canadian's considering moving to the USA? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
133 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I'm kind of in a strange boat right now where I'm really comfortable in Canada yet I can't shake this feeling I need to get over to the US of A in order to take advantage of that strong USD. I, like many Canadians, work for an American firm and have a TN visa. Recently, my employer offered to sponsor me for a green card, if I ever choose to relocate to the USA. I can live pretty much anywhere I want as I'm a remote employee, but I do travel to the USA for client work.

It's a tough decision to make. While I consider it, I thought I'd ask the community. So, say you good lemmings?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 4 points 3 years ago*

I don’t think you can do it from a TN anyway, so you’d need to switch to an immigrant intent visa (H1-B, EB, etc.)

You actually can, a lot of people do that. You just have to time it so that it completes before your TN renews, because after you start the GC process, you will not be able to renew TN again (since you violated non-immigrant intent).

It only really works for Canadian born people, because it'll take 1-1.5 years for GC, Mexicans will take longer so they can't really do that on TN. And as you said, India/China wait list is around 60 years now I believe.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent