Can my spouse and I sponsor each other at the same time with 2 different Visas?

[sunfernape 0]

I want to sponsor her using the IR-1 so she can move to the US, she wants to sponsor me to move to Canada using a spousal Visa. Are we allowed to do this at the same time? We are either staying in Canada or moving to the US, not completely sure. But one of us will move. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[LGBT VENUSA 7]

By personal experience, the US process will be a lot shorter, less expensive and much easier than the Canadian.

[Canadatousa 7]

do the US first and get her to get citizenship before working on the canadian process. If you both move back to canada while she is still a US resident, they will revoke her residency after a period of time and if you ever wanted to move back to the US, you'd have to start over.

[Ian H. 207]

Interesting. I thought Canada had a more open immigration policy than the US.

[sunfernape 0]

We don't know which one of us will have it more worthwhile to move, because we will both need to work. We both currently have jobs in our respective countries, so I was thinking whichever one of us can land a job first at the opposite country, it would make sense to move there.

That's why I was curious to know whether we could do both at once, or whether it would make sense to do so.