As a Canadian citizen can I keep my residency staus after moving to usa on green card visa?

[SDMO 4]

Hi everyone I was wondering if someone can guide me I am canadian citizen moving to usa on a green card ,If I keep my house and business running in canada can I keep my residency staus in canada?

[canadian_wife 1,822]

You may want to post this in the Canada forum, maybe a moderator will move this!!  

 

good luck

[Crazy Cat 41,845]

***Moved to the Canada regional forum as this will attract the Canada experts****

[SDMO 4]

1 hour ago, canadian_wife said:

You may want to post this in the Canada forum, maybe a moderator will move this!!  

 

good luck

THanks.

 

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

***Moved to the Canada regional forum as this will attract the Canada experts****

thanks

 

[SalishSea 17,824]

I don’t think you can be residents of both, especially in terms of things like provincial health benefits, etc.   @Ontarkie

[Ontarkie 14,220]

You can keep your house and business going, but as a non resident. You will stop being a resident of Canada when you endorse your visa. The day you cross and get that stamp. Your Visa endorsement is your declaration that you are becoming a US resident. Very important to the US and keeping your GC.

oOr Canada it is also your last day as a resident of Canada. You will mark this on your exit taxes too. Health benefits end at that time except for provinces like BC who you actually pay one month in advance. So you have the remainder of the time. Tax credits like baby bonus (not sure what they call it now) that come in monthly they end immediately. Along with the quarterly check that used to be the GST. Over the years members have continued to get those payments just to get a letter later that the government wants their money back and asap. Others did contact Revenue Canada to stop payments and still got them, which they had to return them after many calls to get that cleared up too. It's a hot mess. 

 

So in short you cannot be a resident of both Canada and the US.

[SDMO 4]

15 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

You can keep your house and business going, but as a non resident. You will stop being a resident of Canada when you endorse your visa. The day you cross and get that stamp. Your Visa endorsement is your declaration that you are becoming a US resident. Very important to the US and keeping your GC.

oOr Canada it is also your last day as a resident of Canada. You will mark this on your exit taxes too. Health benefits end at that time except for provinces like BC who you actually pay one month in advance. So you have the remainder of the time. Tax credits like baby bonus (not sure what they call it now) that come in monthly they end immediately. Along with the quarterly check that used to be the GST. Over the years members have continued to get those payments just to get a letter later that the government wants their money back and asap. Others did contact Revenue Canada to stop payments and still got them, which they had to return them after many calls to get that cleared up too. It's a hot mess. 

 

So in short you cannot be a resident of both Canada and the US.

Thank you so much for the information!

[SDMO 4]

On 12/7/2023 at 9:20 PM, G2023 said:

We haven't registered yet, we replied back nvc confirming our appointment. Not sure, if that was required or not.

Question about PCC;

Did you recently got Indian PCC?

I misplaced my original Indian PCC that I submitted earlier with the application so applied for new one at Indian Consulate in Toronto.

Now the new format is totally different it only covers dates travelled to India in past 10 years doesn't state that this is valid for US Immigration Purpose. 

I tried emailing  Indian Consulate to send me exact same format that was accepted earlier by NVC but they said this is current and only format for PCC and it should be accepted for USA Immigration. 

 

 

 

 

On 12/23/2023 at 8:02 PM, NGJ said:

Yes-we crossed border to activate the visa (got passports stamped), came back to Canada in an hour, and then drove to the US for permanent move on the following day. 

 

14 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

You can keep your house and business going, but as a non resident. You will stop being a resident of Canada when you endorse your visa. The day you cross and get that stamp. Your Visa endorsement is your declaration that you are becoming a US resident. Very important to the US and keeping your GC.

oOr Canada it is also your last day as a resident of Canada. You will mark this on your exit taxes too. Health benefits end at that time except for provinces like BC who you actually pay one month in advance. So you have the remainder of the time. Tax credits like baby bonus (not sure what they call it now) that come in monthly they end immediately. Along with the quarterly check that used to be the GST. Over the years members have continued to get those payments just to get a letter later that the government wants their money back and asap. Others did contact Revenue Canada to stop payments and still got them, which they had to return them after many calls to get that cleared up too. It's a hot mess. 

 

So in short you cannot be a resident of both Canada and the US.

I have one more question my husband is a truck driver so can he cross the border for his work without activating his immigrant visa? And can we go cross the border activate our visa stay there for few days rent a house sign a lease then come back and move completely with our household stuff after a month.Is it possible?Please guide me !

[Ontarkie 14,220]

11 hours ago, SDMO said:

 

 

I have one more question my husband is a truck driver so can he cross the border for his work without activating his immigrant visa? And can we go cross the border activate our visa stay there for few days rent a house sign a lease then come back and move completely with our household stuff after a month.Is it possible?Please guide me !

They may let him cross without activating it. Since going electronic packages it seems to be more hit or miss. You sure can cross activate, get started with a place and bring the rest over after. 

[SDMO 4]

12 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

They may let him cross without activating it. Since going electronic packages it seems to be more hit or miss. You sure can cross activate, get started with a place and bring the rest over after. 

Thank you  😊