Can I enter the US to activate my CR1 and return to work in Canada while I apply for jobs in the US?

[torontoim 19]

Thanks for the cautionary advice. I’ll follow up after tax return season to echo the above issues if those things pan out for the benefit of future inquirers.

 

Appreciate everyone’s advice on this thread. Hope you all had a great thanksgiving! 

[NikLR 13,227]

8 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

Sadly you were given wrong information for not getting taxed as a non resident. Not likely going to be a problem now, but  being taxed as a Canadian resident can cause issues with your GC. You cannot be a resident of Canada and a resident of the US at the same time when it comes to immigration. They can view that as abandoning your GC.  

 

Many tax benefits end that day you activated your GC. Search these boards and you will find many and I mean many members who ended up having to pay back all the money the received. CRA is notoriously bad giving advice and even worse when you try to update info and stop getting payments you should not be getting. 

 

I changed my address and phoned to end my gst rebate and cctb cheques. They proceeded to send gst cheques to me in the USA.  I didn't cash them and sent them back with a letter stating I was no longer a Canadian resident.  They reissued them to me.  So I eventually cashed them into my Canadian account.  When I did my exit taxes of course they said Omg you owe us money,  and I paid them back since I kept it just for thst occasion. 

Edited November 24, 2018 by NikLR

[torontoim 19]

On 11/24/2018 at 7:05 AM, torontoim said:

Thanks for the cautionary advice. I’ll follow up after tax return season to echo the above issues if those things pan out for the benefit of future inquirers.

 

Appreciate everyone’s advice on this thread. Hope you all had a great thanksgiving! 

Just following up on this thread since I’m sure I won’t be the only person in this situation in the future. I did call the CRA and was told I would still receive my tax return for the 2018 tax year and I received my full tax return benefit via direct deposit from claiming my foreign tuition tax credits as a student in the US. 

 

If you’ve filled out TL11A forms as a student to claim foreign tuition credits as a student, you are still entitled to claim the benefit on taxes on Canadian income once you’ve left the country.

 

I got my green card last August. Stayed in Canada and worked until November 2018 before resigning and leaving permanently for the US. I called the CRA to advise them I left the country following that to cancel my GST cheques and provided my US tax information to my Canadian bank.

 

I filed my tax return for 2018 in March 2019 and tried to e-file. I found out you can only file through paper filing as a non-resident which delayed my return. After paper filing, CRA processed my return and I still got my full return with tuition tax credits included on both my employment income and the federal income tax taken from my cashed out pension lump sum payment.

 

Some of the guidance earlier in the thread may still apply to other situations, just not foreign tuition tax credits on Canadian income earned.

 

I hope this is helpful to anyone else who ends up reading this who has a similar situation.

[don_mar 18]

On 4/25/2019 at 5:15 AM, torontoim said:

Just following up on this thread since I’m sure I won’t be the only person in this situation in the future. I did call the CRA and was told I would still receive my tax return for the 2018 tax year and I received my full tax return benefit via direct deposit from claiming my foreign tuition tax credits as a student in the US. 

 

If you’ve filled out TL11A forms as a student to claim foreign tuition credits as a student, you are still entitled to claim the benefit on taxes on Canadian income once you’ve left the country.

 

I got my green card last August. Stayed in Canada and worked until November 2018 before resigning and leaving permanently for the US. I called the CRA to advise them I left the country following that to cancel my GST cheques and provided my US tax information to my Canadian bank.

 

I filed my tax return for 2018 in March 2019 and tried to e-file. I found out you can only file through paper filing as a non-resident which delayed my return. After paper filing, CRA processed my return and I still got my full return with tuition tax credits included on both my employment income and the federal income tax taken from my cashed out pension lump sum payment.

 

Some of the guidance earlier in the thread may still apply to other situations, just not foreign tuition tax credits on Canadian income earned.

 

I hope this is helpful to anyone else who ends up reading this who has a similar situation.

Thanks for the great information and update! I assume medical insurance is similar? You should still be considered a resident as long as you live here, so you don't need to get insurance till you physically moved to U.S? Was that the case for you? Thanks again.

[torontoim 19]

9 hours ago, don_mar said:

Thanks for the great information and update! I assume medical insurance is similar? You should still be considered a resident as long as you live here, so you don't need to get insurance till you physically moved to U.S? Was that the case for you? Thanks again.

I believe insurance applies but I never tested that out since I never had to use healthcare services between the time I got my green card and leaving Canada. I didn’t get private health insurance during that time as I had private secondary health insurance through my employer in Toronto.

[NikLR 13,227]

19 hours ago, don_mar said:

Thanks for the great information and update! I assume medical insurance is similar? You should still be considered a resident as long as you live here, so you don't need to get insurance till you physically moved to U.S? Was that the case for you? Thanks again.

No medical ends when you become a US resident.  You need to purchase private health insurance after activating your visa.