A move to Canada - Implications for the citizenship process?

[RealSuperK]

Hello all!

There is a career opportunity in Canada that I would like to explore. I'm stuck at the name check level, everything else is completed (including the interview and the civics test). What will happen if I got the job and moved to Canada? Besides the risk of USCIS losing my application, of course.

Thanks!

 

[madhuri_dhar]

Glad to see a post on this topic. My husband had applied for canadian immigration a couple of years back (He is on H1B visa here in the US and I am a US green card holder). His canadian immigration is close to getting approved. We just need to send them the medical documents etc. (I am the secondary application on his canadian immigration).

I will be applying for US citizenship early next year. Not sure if canadian GC will have any effect on my US citizenship application.

Thanks in advance

 

[RealSuperK]

Until the oath, you are a Permanent Resident, and as such have to reside in the US. If you move to Canada, it may be determined that you abandoned your GC, and without GC, no citizenship.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I guess I'm gonna put my newly acquired Masters in Finance to use when I get my citizenship in 25 years. Go me!

Anybody needs a degree? I may as well sell mine and get something out of it.

K

 

[RealSuperK]

No need for sarcasm...
I would expect somebody who goes for the GC to do his due diligence...
Furthermore, you can of course pursue any career opportunity you want, in the US or outside. If you value your GC more than a career opportunity abroad, you can hardly blame the US authorities... You are not held hostage in the US. It is all your own personal decision.
In other words, the US authorities have no obligation whatsoever to accommodate your career plans.

Pardon my sarcasm, I got carried away. You are correct on all accounts. However, if the citizenship processing times are getting longer and longer (at least for those of us who have namechecks pending forever), US authorities need to take that into the account and maybe change a thing or two (just like when they allowed people with pending I-485s switch jobs after 180 days, or started charging $1,000 fee to expedite the H1B process).

I went through the whole Green Card process 5 years ago. And back then everybody already was talking about all the inefficiencies of the INS and what needs to be done. Back in 2000, the INS got the lowest grade out of all governmental agencies. Fast forward 5 years... and I'm in the same boat. Yeah, we've had 9/11 since then and things have changed (no matter how much people talked about "terrorism will not change the way we live"). There is no surprise there. But if the president can go ahead and push his proposal about granting legal status to 10 million illegal aliens in the US, surely something can be done to help people like me who have lived in this country for years without once breaking the law (except for a couple of speeding tickets).

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for everything this country has given me. However, this namecheck saga is tough to handle.

K

 

[RealSuperK]

Well, I can understand that...
The incorporation into the big DHS bureaucracy didn't make it any better. The FEMA disaster in New Orleans shows that such monster bureaucracies are just bad.
At this point, I don't think CIS is reformable.

The complete refusal of the current administration to learn from the history is puzzling. Bigger governmental organizations have never resulted in a better performance. Not in this country, not anywhere else. The knee jerk reaction after 9/11 to combine 25 billion governmental agencies into one single monsterious organization was stunning.

They do, shortly before elections (sorry, now I am sarcastic...)
On the topic of the Bush proposal, I don't think it is going anywhere. In the current climate, no congressperson wants to be seen as soft on immigration. I am actually surprised that the proposal to increase the H1 numbers has gone as far as it has so far.

It's no secret that the whole proposal was targeting the Hispanic vote. That what it was all about. The president got the votes, the case is closed. Talking about the war on terror and granting legal status to 10 million illegals at the same time is simply laughable.

But it's been like that for a while. Back in '99, the INS stopped processing I-485 for 11 months to work on bigger and better things. Those bigger and better things turned out to be citizenship applications. Funny how it was a year before elections. An amazing coincidence, I would say.

K