Going to Canada for a few months

[Steph0814 1]

Hi Everyone,

It's been a quick minute since I have shown myself on VJ. Hope everyone is doing well!

I have a few questions:

1. My husband and I are planning on going to Canada for a few months next year, it's mainly for educational reasons. I have a 3 month culinary course and he is taking his course for teaching English internationally. I am set to remove conditions in October 2010, will my leaving the US for 3-4 months have any diverse affect on this? (We have a condo here, as well as his entire company so obviously we have roots here)

2 This is a evidence question. Because of the way the economy is he has had to let some of his properties go and therefore potentially have them come after any and all assets he may have. In light of that, we have discontinued our "joint bank account" as i was using that primarily and I intend to keep my credit and savings protected. The condo is only in his name, all this to say we won't have a lot of "hard evidence", any suggestions or advice on what we could do or how strict they will be? I am not too worried about it, however we all know that USCIS likes to see "paper proof".

That is it for now....

Thanks all

Steph

[trailmix 77]

Hi Steph,

I'm not sure how leaving the country for 3 months will affect your AOS, if at all.

As for evidence, what about utility bills, insurance, that kind of thing, anything 'joint'?

Edited September 18, 2009 by trailmix

[warlord 73]

As long as you maintain your US residency (eg the condo) you should be fine. INS usually doesn't see any trip under (typically 6 months) as an issue unless it's multiple several month trips back to back with only a short duration between them (week or so). Anything after 6 months will possibly cause problems when applying for citizenship if you go that way.

If you have no desire for citizenship, then these sorts of trips won't be an issue as you won't be going for the requirement residency days that you need for citizenship.

Just remember not to leave the US or move to Canada and live and work though. This can cause your Green Card status to be abandoned and upon returning to the US you would have to start all over from scratch. So keeping this as a one time 3-4 month thing will be fine...

[Steph0814 1]

Thank you for your reply Warlord...

@trailmix, yeah we have car insurance and utility bills that are joint. I just wonder if that is enough...I can't go through what I went through with them for the conditional Green Card. They messed up pretty much every aspect of my case file...

[trailmix 77]

Thank you for your reply Warlord...

@trailmix, yeah we have car insurance and utility bills that are joint. I just wonder if that is enough...I can't go through what I went through with them for the conditional Green Card. They messed up pretty much every aspect of my case file...

Just another thing I was thinking, how about the proof from your trip together, flights or hotels or receipts from your courses which I assume you are both taking in the same city. That kind of thing.