Dual Citizenship for couple? Canada & USA

[doitright 0]

I'm Canadian and am with an American woman. We don't know where we will live after marriage.

We plan to work in Canada for 1 year to save money, and then go to school in USA for 2 years.

Is it possible to have best of both worlds having PR for each of us in each country?

For children its easy, they get dual citizenship, working and living in anyone they want!

What about for the adults? I haven't started any visa's yet but I have an idea...

We are not engaged but she comes up to Canada next month. She enters says visiting my boyfriend and Boom! I pop the question and get a couple friends to witness the civil wedding.

(by wedding i mean paperwork, not really being 'one flesh')

So I drive and drop her off at her home and when i get back to my home we both start applying (she applies for me, and i apply for her) for out of country spouse visas. (cr 1 and whatever canada's got) (cheaper and faster right?)

In the meantime we wait, do paperwork, plan the wedding and get our real wedding with the fam in sept. in the US

So by that time we will have things more organized and both be able to work relatively soon after crossing the border of our future home together.

Hope to hear good advice and some juicy debates

Thanks in advance

[Dakine10 5,452]

I'm Canadian and am with an American woman. We don't know where we will live after marriage.

We plan to work in Canada for 1 year to save money, and then go to school in USA for 2 years.

Is it possible to have best of both worlds having PR for each of us in each country?

PR has residency requirements that must be met otherwise the permanent residency can be lost. Canada is fairly lax, requiring you live in Canada 2 years out of a 5 year period. The USA is a little more complicated. As a general rule, an extended absence of more than 1 year requires that you obtain a reentry permit ahead of time, but there are a lot more discretionary factors involved. Successive extended trips outside the US increase the chance that USCIS will deny re-entry on the grounds that you have abandoned permanent residence.

Dual citizens of Canada and the USA do not have residency requirements to deal with and are free to remain outside of each country for as long as they like.

[doitright 0]

ok PR for canada at a later time, but for the time being, what can we use so we can both work in canada, use the heathcare, then go to school in the states later and be able to work as well?