Working and living in the US while seeking IR-1 visa

[goingtocalifornia 0]

Hello,

I'm hoping someone here can help me:

My wife and I have been married for 8 years. I'm a US citizen, she's Canadian, we both live in Canada. We're applyign for a IR-1 visa. We don't have the funds for her to not work for an extended period whiel in the US, but we want to move there as soon as possible. So I have a few questions:

1) Can she move to the US and file our papers from there?

2) Can she start working in the US while her papers are being processed?

3) When filing the I-129 (financial support document) do I enter my current employment info in Canada? Or do I have to be employed in the US and show verifiaction of US earnings?

4) Woudl ti be better to file from Canada, wait out the process and then move when she can work there?

5) What is the best way to go about this?

Thanks for any help in advance.

[Boiler 47,674]

No

No

If it will continue

Sounds like it

Read the Guides

[NikLR 13,234]

I-129 is not the financial document. Please take some time to read the guides and wikis on VJ.

If you both file from Canada and get sent to California service center, you could find your petition going quite quickly.

You may want to spend some time in the Canada forum. Montreal (where you MUST interview) is strict about is domicile for the USC. That means you must take more steps to show that the USC will live or has moved to the back to the USA than someone from another country.

[sharda 8]

If you wife is currently working in Canada up until she ready to migrate to USA she will be eligible for EI from the Canadian Government.

Her resignation must say 'resign to relocate to USA with my husband '; will rec'd it for 6 month up to 9 months depending as well as if there is child tax benefits it will be paid for one year following the next year tax filing; however when that times comes you need to follow with CRA.

[Rob L 3,811]

If you wife is currently working in Canada up until she ready to migrate to USA she will be eligible for EI from the Canadian Government.

Her resignation must say 'resign to relocate to USA with my husband '; will rec'd it for 6 month up to 9 months depending as well as if there is child tax benefits it will be paid for one year following the next year tax filing; however when that times comes you need to follow with CRA.

I assume EI is Employment Insurance, Can you point me to more information on that?

[sharda 8]

Yes it is Employment Insurance.

There is a thread here " The canuck EI thread", if you can follow that it will help you