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I hope after all of your suffering, that you and your wife were able to finally be together and mend after such a challenging journey!

I think this is the important piece. If I was looking at a case where someone had been an LPR for over 16 years and was suddenly attempting to naturalize under the 3 year when eligible for the simpler 5 year, I'd probably question it. Anyway, good luck!

It was ruled unconstitutional in Ontario courts in December, but the Act has yet to be amended and is currently waiting for Parliament to vote, as I understand it.

@Cadtoverm My wife is an American, currently living in Canada with me in Montreal. We bought our house in Vermont when we got married and started the immigration process. At the time we thought it would be an 8 month process…. We are having a baby in 3 weeks, and was hoping to be able to move full time to be close to her family and live in our house. The uncertainty of this situation is really impacting my mental health. Thanks everyone for sharing your stories and information….. it makes a bit easier to go through the experience. Well, not that you want to hear this, but if the baby is born in Canada, it will be able to pass on Canadian citizenship to it's children, should they choose to have kids. You guys won't be saddled with a big hospital bill right as you were hoping to move and your wife will be able to deliver with her doctors that have overseen the entire pregnancy. I know, you'd much rather be "home". 100% get it. But hopefully it's not all bad...a new baby is pretty exciting.

Credit card. I have my card set up to notify me of EVERY transaction, so I see them come in live. Anything over a certain amount, the CC company texts and requests approval. Never had any issues and we're a number of petitions successfully through the system now. Banking with cheques is very antiquated in my mind. US banking in general seems behind the times. I was uncomfortable when I first moved to the US 10 years ago and they'd still walk off with your CC to pay a restaurant bill. We'd had tableside machines in Canada for years already and your card never leaves your hand there. We'd also had chips in cards for years prior. The fact that it took so long for the US to accept chip n pin was mind blowing to me. I was shaking my head when people in our neighbourhood were complaining about 6 or so years ago that the debit machines at the local Kroger had been changed and the "credit" option when using a debit card had been removed, so they were required to use a pin. Interestingly enough, we used to have to request our corporate cards to have a pin (and later, a chip) so that we could use them internationally because so many other places required it, but not the US. We had to have a "business justification" for the need. Fraud is high in the US, so a CC offers the most inexpensive additional insurance a person can have because it's the CC company that has to be insured. If your debit card gets hacked, there's no getting that money back. Some banks are definitely better than others for monitoring and communicating when there is suspected fraud.

No problem. Good luck!

By what you've stated, you have plenty of evidence demonstrating she lives at that address. I wouldn't stress about the mortgage or a lease agreement. Everything else points to her living at that address.

But do they have the official court order and are there associated visitation? If so, then permission may be required from the other parent to allow the child to immigrate. The US does take parental rights and access seriously and adhere to guidelines to essentially preventing parental abduction of a child.

Sorry to hear about your FIL! As for the encyclopedias, would you be allowed to do folded book art? I realize there's probably like 40 of the damned things, but eh...maybe if you can make something old, new again, they'll be more willing to let them go. Painful truth: unlikely. I feel this pain though. And Kid2 has learned that if it's done but the online submission isn't working, to at least e-mail it to the teacher. It can then be proven that it was finished before the deadline.

Click your timeline link in the bottom left, or here: https://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=431859

@appleblossom gave you the link you need to follow to petition your husband. Current timeline is about a year: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/check-processing-times.html Unless he has a job that qualifies for express entry: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/works.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/federal-skilled-workers.html For him to obtain Canadian citizenship, he will have to be in country, physically present, for 1095 days (equivalent of 3 years) of the last 5 years before he can apply. So, if you guys decided to take a 4 month vacation after he'd been in Canada for 2 years, that would push back his eligibility by that number of days. If you basically stayed in Canada for that full 3 years, he can apply straight away at that 1095 day point. Where to in NS? My kids' dad was born in Halifax

@craigbeauch and @natashasa, please fill out your timeline. If you'd like to be included on the tracking spreadsheet, please follow the instructions at the top of the spreadsheet. The link is in my signature.

Just adding the chances of someone who's demonstrated immigrant intent by already filing for a GC and successfully petitioning for a non-immigrant intent visa like a TN is very, very slim. It's FAR more likely that non-immigrant visa will be instantly denied. It could negatively impact the pending GC application, too.

If Montreal will actually do the DCF, I'd try that route. Montreal is a traditionally SLOW consulate. Your reasoning is sound - hubs job need him there and it sounds like a firm offer. The worst that can happen is they say no.

I've been seeing people on various threads reporting having issues with the website. I'd try tomorrow. Government agency and IT....

Ugh...sorry you're dealing with this. The SSA seems to fail to properly train their staff and they end up being very "jobsworth" as a result. We had to try and get SSN's during COVID for my kids and it was a nightmare! Good luck!

If the child's parent is a USC, why is the child on a visa? Was the USC born in the US or obtained citizenship?

Unlikely to be less than 6 weeks before you even hear a single thing from Montreal. Might even be 8. Montreal is slow and the regular EB visa processing has been taking nearly 2 years for interviews. Also be aware that Montreal likes to hand out DS-5535's like candy, so you might want to research that a little bit and keep your fingers crossed they don't hand you one. Not trying to be a debbie downer, just a realist so you aren't disappointed since Montreal is one of the more challenging consulates to deal with.

Excellent on the 2 classes. Gotta start somewhere, right? Kid2 and I did Science Fair last weekend. I have as much love for it as you do...I don't. Thank goodness we don't have to do it next year! Sunday, Kid2 was asked to begin Math homework many times throughout the day. Kid refused. Kid1 took advantage and did Physics with Hubs. Kid2 came down at 8:30pm or something with HOURS of work to do. Had moments of frustration and anger and worked until 11pm. Send Kid2 to bed to get said child up at 7am Monday morning to finish the last few questions. Fast forward a few hours and Hubs gets a text from Kid2 "I'm rather displeased at the moment." M'kay, why? "The homework we finished this morning is due Tuesday." 🤷‍♀️ Guess you get a night off because it's already finished! Should pay better attention in class! The same kid also gleefully delighted later in the day. "Would you like to know how I did on my Science exam?" Well, yes, assuming by the tone of the text that the result was good. "100%" The kid could have 90%+ average in all classes with a little bit of effort!

THIS, THIS, THIS! Being an independent person who works, pays their own bills and is accustomed to a certain amount of freedom and then to surrender all that and become 100% dependent puts a LOT of stress on a relationship. You're supposed to be creating the foundation for the rest of your lives as a married couple, not starting out under duress. You might think you can give it all up, but living the reality is very different. Your partner has chosen you for you and you them for who they are. You might end up giving up far too much of yourself if you approach in this way. CR1 means you can essentially continue life as is, as annoying as it might be, but you both retain your identities, you both continue to work, you both retain your freedoms. When you cross the border with your CR1, you can work straight away, you can travel straight away, you can really just jump into the day to day with few worries and really build your marriage.

Yes, he can sign the money to you. I had a cheque issued to me for a reasonably large amount from the insurance company for my roof claim. I signed it over to the roofing company. Basically, once a cheque is endorsed, anyone can cash it so that's why people are told not to endorse it until they are depositing it.

No phone or watch. Wallet will be fine. Take a book or magazine! I'd leave yourself 2 hours for secondary. It doesn't usually take them long to pull your documents from the repository, but it does depend on how busy secondary is. Better to have too much time than not enough! Especially with the ridiculously overbooked flights!

He should be able to take his passport to the bank and open a bank account now. Yes, they like a SSN, but same "problem" - it's so they report any crazy money to the IRS for taxation. He should be able to sign a cheque over to you to cash. Cheques are so antiquated, but commonplace in the US! Strange to me, despite being here in various forms for a decade now. Anyway, I digress...🙊

You've essentially stumbled upon the reason many people wait until they are eligible to apply for citizenship to change their name.

CBSA will ask, too! They are a real pain in the rear to deal with sometimes, but I appreciate they are trying to head off human trafficking and ensure no parental kidnapping is going on. Another vote for a letter if the OP is worried about the child travelling with Mom. The other thing to consider is Mom should have a marriage certificate and a birth certificate with parentage on there and the child is being repatriated to the US. It's unlikely to be an issue.