Difficult, complicated situation

[Tater&Bugger 3]

Warlord and Rob & Monika, because my GC was about to expire and I couldn't just stay in the US with a baby and no health insurance. It was commit to removing conditions or coming to Canada. My husband had a job offer in Ottawa and your USC husband can have a Canadian version of a TN visa or work permit while waiting for spousal sponsorship to be approved (confirmed this with CIC). Doing both in the midst of a cross country move with an infant was a lot so we were going to petition once he arrived, but never got around to it because of various reasons. If we were to start now then we are looking at keeping our family appart for two or more years, and we had hoped to expand our family in a couple of years. If we are petitioning me to go back, I am not working full time so I can travel back and forth until then, allowing us to be a family. It's just a shitty situation is all. On top of it we missed our home/family/friend in Phoenix and thus why we are exploring getting me the IR-1 Visa. I know the border patrol agent was not wrong in taking my greencard, I just wished he hadn't. It's to their discretion and he felt me being gone for 3 months and there being a chance we don't move back was too much.

[Tater&Bugger 3]

I am no expert, but from what I have read online (my husband and I would like to return to Canada after he is done school as long as he can find a job), the easiest way to return to Canada is to apply while you are living in the US and sponsor them as a spouse, and then move to Canada when that is approved. That really isn't any help though since you have already moved to Canada. From what I have read it actually seems quicker to do it while you are living in the US than to do it in Canada. BUT, it isn't your fault, if the employer said they were going to do the work visa than they should of. Very frustrating! Hope it works out.

The wait time if filing through the NY office is 18 months and LA office is 26 months. If he were living in Canada then I believe the time is considerably quicker but I haven't checked that in a while.

He was going to school after he got out of the army and while I was pregnant we decided to move back instead if renew my GC (this was a couple months before it expired). So either way I could not just hang out in the US indefinitely with an infant until he could come. He had to start new work so he took a job in MI to be within driving distance until everything would get approved.

[Flames9_RN 358]

Well, what is done is done....if u goto the USA..and have to go back to Canada--u will know what to do,lol And of course 1 could have filed a re-entry permit. http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/B5en.pdf

Others have travelled back and forth during the cr-1/ir-1 process...I did it pretty much monthly with no issues. Yes of course some do have issues, some of that is that they don't have proper evidence showing that they will return to canada, maybe a POE officer having a bad day, who knows, but it can happen....but I would guess most have no issues...one just has to have a game plan in case you do..and of course never lie!!

[Rob L 3,811]

Since you are married to a USC, you are no longer considered "temporary" and thus you will not be able to get a TN.

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