Sponsoring parent for green card already in US

[Chancy 6,241]

44 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

Look into health coverage costs so you know what you are getting him into.

 

Fortunately for OP's father, children live in California and New York, where low-cost medical care options are available to immigrants from day 1.

 

[SalishSea 17,828]

1 hour ago, Gc4dad said:

Current plan is for him to stay permanently in US. He is elderly and traveling is getting harder. 

Hopefully you have a plan for his health care?   He will lose his provincial coverage, and will not be eligible to buy into Medicare for 5 years.   

[Demise 1,283]

Just an aside for those spinning in circles about the I-94. Canadians have pretty much visa-free access to the US, they are not required to file ESTA and they're admitted as "B-1/2 non-controlled visitors" so an entry stamp or the online print out that's missing the I-94 is likely the best you'll find because an I-94 simply doesn't exist. The agencies also disagree on the implementation where CBP claims the entry is for 180 days, and USCIS and DOS claim that there's no concrete time limit as long as one doesn't violate being a visitor.

 

This has some interesting side effects where Canadian overstayers are generally not subject to re-entry bans because since there's no I-94 there's no real date that they have to leave the US by, similar to F-1 overstayers admitted for D/S.

 

 

Regarding what to put for the I-94, just pen in "N/A" and maybe explain in the last section that your father is a Canadian citizen who entered US on [date] at [port of entry] and was never issued an I-94.

Edited November 9, 2023 by Demise