a US Permanent Resident planning to immigrate to Canada

[inloveVEN 46]

Hello

i can understand your fears

if you receive your green card through the path of Ir1-Cr1 and are you still married with your same spouse. After 3 years of your green card, you can file for Naturalization. And wait a little more to see what happen

best

Ramon

[RodDetroit 118]

Become a US citizen, you have nothing to lose . Canada is a great place, people are very open minded, goverment support, safe , great schools , however, it is very expensive in my opinion, salaries seem never catch up with the cost of living , If you are moving to a large city your car insurance will be $400 a month . Getting a job wont be as easy as it is in the US specially if you dont have experience in Canada.

[kris&me 572]

my stepdaughter married a Canadian and moved to Brantford 2 hours west of Toronto

not so cheap to become a Canadian resident

costs her over $3000

Canada is beautiful as i have another cousin who lives 30 years now in Toronto

but look over all your opinions including checking out other possibilites in the US

as the 6 different regions in the US vary in so many ways

[NikLR 13,227]

Become a US citizen, you have nothing to lose . Canada is a great place, people are very open minded, goverment support, safe , great schools , however, it is very expensive in my opinion, salaries seem never catch up with the cost of living , If you are moving to a large city your car insurance will be $400 a month . Getting a job wont be as easy as it is in the US specially if you dont have experience in Canada.

Becoming a USC means filing a US tax return no matter where you live in the world. Also some people lose their birth citizenship if they apply for US citizenship, which may be something they don't want to do.

My car insurance under my mom's name as a teen cost me $50/month. As an adult it cost about $1200/year.. which certainly isn't anywhere close to $400/month!

I could live comfortably on my own, in an apartment, making about $13/hr working 40/week. I don't think it's any harder to get a job in Canada than it is in the USA.

If you want to live downtown Toronto or Vancouver, yeah, it'll cost you, but figure out transit routes and live a little further away, suddenly cost of living goes down. Just like the USA or any other country in the world.

Salaries NEVER catch up in the USA with a $7.35/hr minimum wage.

[B-2-Z 37]

Become a US citizen, you have nothing to lose . Canada is a great place, people are very open minded, goverment support, safe , great schools , however, it is very expensive in my opinion, salaries seem never catch up with the cost of living , If you are moving to a large city your car insurance will be $400 a month . Getting a job wont be as easy as it is in the US specially if you dont have experience in Canada.

Some people *do* have things to lose, such as what NLR said above.

I agree that parts of Canada are very expensive(especially groceries), but we could always afford to live comfortably and still take vacations. Most people in the US aren't able to save anything pay-pay, while I find a lot of people in Canada can, even on what people consider to be lower wages.

Not sure where the car insurance would cost $400...Whoever pays that must have been in a TON of accidents, or have had insurance pulled in the past. Even with 2 people on our insurance it hasn't ever been close to that.

To OP - Just an FYI, not sure how you plan on moving, but it would be faster for your husband to sponsor you from outside the country, it takes a VERY long time if you're living in Canada to be sponsored for your PR. Like kris&me said, it can also cost quite a bit of money. Consider whether it's important for you to keep your ties to Indonesia by keeping your citizenship. I think it would be a shame to go through this in the US and Canada, only to get no citizenship in the end. It would mean having to go through the processes every time you want to trade between countries.