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Thank you all so much for your advice! Especially on the health care issue; I'll get in touch with the various providers and figure out my options. The update on my end is that I'm talking to my employer and gotten the advice of an immigration lawyer, and it's looking like we might be able to work something out. Keep your fingers crossed!

I've just been hired for a job in the US starting August 18, 2011. My wife of five years is pregnant with our second, due in October. We've resided in Montreal for two years, and I started looking into direct consular filing; but by the time frame people have set up, it looks like September/October (i.e. the time the baby is due) will be the first time she's allowed in the country, which cuts things way too close. She could potentially move back in with her parents, but they're in Ontario, and there's a three-month waiting period before you can go on insurance, so she'd have to be there as early as May; meanwhile I don't think my insurance from my new job would cover childbirth outside of the country. So either she has the baby without any insurance coverage, or she spends the last few months of her pregnancy couch-surfing in Montreal; either way our son doesn't see his mother for a few months, and I probably miss the birth of my second child. Is there anything I'm missing that could help us to avoid one of these ridiculous situations?

I'm a USC and I was just offered a job in the states which starts August 18. I've lived in Montreal for two years, and I lived in Toronto six years before that; my wife of five years is a Canadian citizen, and she's two months pregnant with our second child. Am I understanding this forum correctly, that even with six months lead-time on a DCF, there's a good chance that she'd have to give birth in Canada without me? Is this really our best option, or is there anything about our circumstances that gives us another choice?