mattUsUkr

Yea I'm not just going over and living there. Like I said, "I haven't looked into all the details of doing this from the Canadian side, but I did read it can be fairly easy if a resident of the US has a remote job (sure, with some additional tax headaches), so I thought I'd look into what it means for the US immigration process first, which is the most important part for us."

I'm American and she moved here from Ukraine. The idea was to temporarily spend time aka 'live' there, while still keeping my house & health insurance here in the US, with a plan to return to the US full time after a couple years. Living up north is just something we've both been interested in as a temporary thing (kinda like how some people have the travel bug). Thank you for that USCIS link. Sounds like absences from the US for less than 6 months are allowed, but with multiple of these, an officer can reject a naturalization application. To me it sounds like it could be safe if we were to spend 5 months in Canada one year, then again the following year, and then if we had 3 full years in the US before applying for naturalization, there wouldn't be much concern of whether or not we reside in the US (quote from the USCIS link that we need to be mindful of: "In some of these cases, an applicant may not be able to establish that his or her principal actual dwelling place is in the United States or establish residence within the United States for the statutorily required period of time.") As I'm at the beginning of pursuing this idea, I haven't looked into all the details of doing this from the Canadian side, but I did read it can be fairly easy if a resident of the US has a remote job (sure, with some additional tax headaches), so I thought I'd look into what it means for the US immigration process first, which is the most important part for us.

Does anyone have experience of temporarily moving out of the US after getting their green card? My wife has an interview scheduled for the AOS (via K1 visa) soon, and we've debated living in Canada while working remote US jobs. Or maybe even spend most of the year in Canada, with a a few trips to the US. I'm trying to figure out what options are safe vs having the potential to cause issues for returning to the US if decided to live here in the end. https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-820?language=en_US this says a PR can leave as long as it's not for over a year. I take that to say that if we return the to the US every year (most likely 2-4 visits a year), there shouldn't be a problem. Does anyone have experience or advice on if my take on this is accurate, or about other info I may be missing? Thank you.