Better to apply in US or Canada?

[Unamae 0]

My husband is a USC and he plans to file for myself and our 3 children. Sadly, we have been through the process before, successfully. When we returned to Canada (temporarily) for my husband to do some graduate work, we were informed that we had abandoned our status as permanent residents.

My husband is now leaving Canada to return to Las Vegas for work. He starts September 1st. We will have to stay behind and go through the process.

The residence questions are difficult for me because we are in transition.

Do we apply now with our current residence (we have sold our house - closes Aug 30) knowing that there will be an address change? Or do we wait until he arrives in the US and apply for us there? We are staying with my husbands parents & my husband is house sitting in the US until we all get there. Who can afford to keep 2 residences AND pay all the fees?!

We looked into DCF but it doesn't appear to be offered in Canada anymore. We have also looked into applying for the K3/K4 visa but looks like it may be considered an 'obsolete' visa and our oldest some has only 2 years before turning 21.

I just can't believe that we didn't file for citizenship before we left 6 years ago...

[canadian_wife 1,829]

Don't petition for a K-3 visa path, go the CR1 route

Contact the consulate and see if you can get a returning resident visa

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1333.html

If not, use the US address

good luck

[Unamae 0]

Thanks so much!

Will be looking into that right away