mam521

Best advise is find a cross border accountant to manage your taxes and file your Canadian exit taxes. It's messy and the returns are due on different dates. They will also be able to help optimize your filings. Just a FYI - the TFSA is taxable in the US.

Anyone watch 90 Days: The Last Resort season 2? Ari and total control over Bini's social media but she says she's not controlling or manipulating him?

@K1visaHopeful is eluding to you haven't done a very basic update. Basic or not, it assists with predicting timelines. Profiles can be updated from mobile devices. As for timing, it's all up to case loads and the times stated in your My USCIS profile are a bit of a crapshoot and not typically that accurate.

She had spoken. It was HER chair. Back off and find your own...sheesh 🤣 What kind of slippers/shoes is Mama T-B looking for? And what have been the fit challenges?

What's this winter you speak of? It's stunningly beautiful outside 🌞...no more devil's ball sack heat and humidity and you said it yourself - barely sweatband weather these days! Winter comes in Jan or Feb when people with underinflated summer slicks and water in their windshield washer reservoir begin to panic about whether their antifreeze is right for "freezing temps" 🤦‍♀️. We got our 🎄 tree on Wednesday because people are weird here and they are likely nearly sold out at the tree place near the house. We got there an hour and a half after it opened and there were SOLD tags on at least a quarter of the lot that were out! Kid1 and I were highly entertained when a family bought a large tree but brought a small truck to take it home. There were half a dozen or so people trying to engineer a solution to get the tree fastened to the truck for transport. We didn't know how things were going to go with the junior cat, but he's content to lay under the tree. He's only pulled the one dinosaur ornament off like 3 times. There's a fight between him and the old lady Siam over real estate laying under the tree.

Your baby will need a CRBA and a passport before (s)he can enter the US anyway, assuming the child's father has the correct background to pass on US citizenship. If not, the baby will require their own approved I-130. I think @Lemonslice has a great point, especially with how slow Montreal is, with completing the interview and delaying the medical.

As long as her I-551 was properly endorsed upon her first entry into the US, she should be fine. Has she checked her physical greencard status on MyUSCIS? She can submit a request for why it's taking so long after 90 days.

Why doesn't your spouse join Visa Journey and come ask these questions herself?

Ah HA...this may apply to the OP! https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/new-immigrants/pr-travel-document.html

You still have to apply to renew the PR to keep it in good standing. I have a friend in the US that has Canadian PR thanks to his wife and he constantly has to renew.

My kid's ex got pulled over for speeding one day. Stupid 16yo didn't have his DL on him. The cop advised to take a photo of it and his insurance and keep it on his phone in case something like this happened because they can run numbers. Basically, any important ID like that - carry a photo. I didn't carry my GC when I had it. I had a photo of my card. If I traveled or would be in an area where I could potentially have to travel through an immi checkpoint, I carried it. Too expensive to replace. Ultimately, your choice but it's risky to lose. Maybe print a copy from your MyUSCIS account and leave the original at home if you are going to carry it.

Are we to assume you are under 18 years of age but 16 or older and you have obtained derivative citizenship through your father? Just making sure. Did the post office take your greencard to send to DoS with your application? You're within the processing window. You should have been given a receipt where you can request to track the status off your passport.

You cannot be discriminated against if you can present your passport with endorsed I-551. That said, the endorsed part is relevant in your situation. You're not eligible for the SSN until it's endorsed, indicating you've become a LPR of the US. Many HR personnel are not familiar with the I-9 rules, so I would recommend providing them if you are met with hesitation. As Demise mentions, it's the business' responsibility to report earnings to the IRS and that's why they want it.

DS-5535 is a form of extreme vetting. They will want like 15 years of travel history and some other garbage. The cases are sent to a central repository where a select team reviews them. It seems like Montreal hands out a lot, or were handing out a lot, but that may just be reflective of statistics because the community here is fairly active so there's talk about it. It does appear that Montreal is bad for skirting the buck and finding excuses for delays. It's 6 in one hand, half a dozen in the other and I do think, to their defense, it's a fairly busy consulate. If your name is common, AP takes longer, in general. If you've visited for a period of time or worked in a MENA country, AP takes longer and the risk of DS-5535 is higher. If you have a job on the Technology Alert List (TAL), you are at higher risk of being handed a DS-5535. If you're from a MENA country (sometimes even 1st gen Canadian) and have a TAL job, you're at higher risk. Occasionally, it's just a random number generator and elderly or children are chosen. Crapshoot, really. It's just important to know about it so you can adjust your expectations, if needed. Many people are still just moseying on through with no issues. It's those that are unaware that are really blind sighted, so that's why people mention it.

Complex carbs aren't the enemy, even with prediabetes. Simple carbs are. Lean protein focus and getting away from processed foods. Read the packages for actual portion sizes and grab an app like Cronometer and start tossing the food you eat into it - you'll learn pretty quickly where you're falling short. Doctors aren't typically great with nutrition counseling. Most insurance plans offer nutrition services free of charge - take advantage of it. I'm fat right now, too, but it's blamable on hormones. The doc and I are working on that. I had abdominal surgery 8 weeks ago and wasn't allowed to pick anything over 10lbs up until 2 weeks ago. Easing back into the regular but before surgery, I was lifting weights 3-5 times a week; I'm strong, but I don't look it. Muscle burns a lot of calories and lifting has been proven to help retain bone mass. My stepsister has been T1 diabetic since we were kids. She's very well managed. My ex and his mom are T2 diabetic. His eating is horrible! He was here visiting and I can't even count the number of York Peppermint Patties he ate. They sit in a candy dish on the counter and we'll grab one on occasion. This was occasion: every time he noticed the jar!

Comingling is more like you have listed one another on life insurance plans, pension and/or retirement savings, you have shared bills or memberships to places like Costco or the like, possibly a shared credit card - proof that you're actually intermingling your finances.

This is why I asked if they are close to citizenship and even want US citizenship. I don't believe Nepalese people are eligible for dual citizenship, so it's a tough consideration.

Montreal hasn't geared up since before the pandemic. There's a couple of years worth of processing times and 120 days + from DQ to interview is pretty much the norm. The DS-5535 isn't adjudicated in Montreal - those are all sent centrally. Montreal just likes to hand them out like Halloween candy, it would seem.

So here's a question: if you had to marry him tomorrow, would you? I'm asking because you mention "strengthening your relationship". Fiancé visas are for people who want to get married. Not potentially want to get married. I know the wait times are much longer than they used to be and that's often why people contemplate a CR1 due to similar timelines, but if this person isn't actually your fiancé right now, why are you considering this? You should be sure you want to spend the rest of your life together with this person because the immigration journey is definitely not easy, it's definitely not cheap and it's not for the faint of heart. You're asking this person who you aren't yet sure whether or not you want to marry to pack up their whole life and move to a country which has an entirely different cultural profile and arguably has a lot of prejudiced people towards Muslims. Would you do the reverse, pack up your life and move to Morocco tomorrow? I'm legitimately not trying to be a facetious jerk. These are serious considerations you NEED to make. This isn't toss an application into the mix and hope it all works out. Immigration is a privilege, not a right, so that needs to be kept in the the back of one's mind when making such a serious request.

They want to go back for an extended visit or they want to move back? Do they want to eventually come back to the US? If so, how close are they to obtaining citizenship?

Definitely. It would be different if the applications were smart enough to ask questions and then populate successive questions based on the previous answers. For example, if a person is applying under a 3 year rule, the questions regarding travel having the appropriate number of calculated days relevant to that rather than the blanket of applying under the 5 year rule. The "Jack of All Trades, Master of None" applications create confusion and more work when RFE's are issued.

There's a list on her notice of interview of what she needs to bring. That said, I had my stack of paperwork and was only asked to see my DL and greencard. Good luck!

Nope, you won't see anything for your dependent. It's a strange one. Once you become a citizen and have your certificate of citizenship, get passports for you and your kiddo. Then, you can file the N-600 to get the certificate for your Little. I contemplated the certificates for my kids because they are expensive, but in the end, decided they were important. The system is confusing here - the Department of State issues passports and USCIS the certificates of citizenship. But, USCIS doesn't recognize a US passport as proof of citizenship. It's weird and I didn't ever want a situation where my kids lost a passport or had it stolen and we not have proof with USCIS that they are citizens.

Filled out everything else and just left the signature. They made me change the place to "Houston". I had originally put "Spring" where I live. So, there's that.

I'd get their passports immediately after your wife naturalizes and then apply for the N-600. Just did it earlier this year for my kids.