How to juggle applying for Canada PR and US Green Card

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If someone is applying for US Green Card and Canada PR at the same time, what is the best way to juggle these two. Here are specific questions:

1) once you get Canada PR approved, you have to land to become a Canada PR. Can you return the same day to U.S. on Advance Parole?

2) After landing, if one wants to stay in US waiting for their US green card, how often they should visit/live in Canada in order to maintain Canada PR status. i know the rule is you have to stay there 183 days per year and I am wondering how Canada Immigration track whether you stay there for that long.

3) once ou land in Canada, can you have the Canada PR card mail to a U.S. address?

thanks for your advice.
 
If someone is applying for US Green Card and Canada PR at the same time, what is the best way to juggle these two. Here are specific questions:

1) once you get Canada PR approved, you have to land to become a Canada PR. Can you return the same day to U.S. on Advance Parole?

After landing in Canada you can return to US the same day - there is no restriction from the Canadian side.

I believe you can use advance parole but you should confirm it from someone.

2) After landing, if one wants to stay in US waiting for their US green card, how often they should visit/live in Canada in order to maintain Canada PR status. i know the rule is you have to stay there 183 days per year and I am wondering how Canada Immigration track whether you stay there for that long.

To maintain your PR status you will have to stay in Canada for 2 years out of 5 starting from the day you land in Canada. There is no yearly limit. So thechnically you can stay out of Canada for 3 years and return to Canada and still maintain your PR status. BUT if you stay out of Canada for an extended period of time you will have to prove to the immigration officer when you enter Canada that you intend to settle in Canada permanently.

Dont worry about how the Canada immigration track how many days you have stayed in Canada . The main point is - they CAN.

3) once ou land in Canada, can you have the Canada PR card mail to a U.S. address?

NO. The PR card is only mailed out to an address in Canada. So you can give the address of a friend where the PR card will be mailed and then that friend can mail the card to you.
 
Hey Alphabet fella,

Why do guys like you treat Canada PR as your 'back-up' and not intend to immigrate there (CAN) permanently and instead crawling back to USA where you are forever in some friggin waiting line or backlogs or retrogression or quota??? How do you manage put up with this amazing level of humiliation day after day heaped on you??

Don't you really get it? The great land of Canada welcomes you into their land, processes your applications faster, gets your PR card quickly (also gets you a welcome at the border) and all you can think of is stabbing it, double-crossing and creeping back to the same hole in USA where you really dont even know if you are going to be let in or allowed to stay and worse...if you are even wanted!!

Rich
 
maple_cartier said:
Hey Alphabet fella,

Why do guys like you treat Canada PR as your 'back-up' and not intend to immigrate there (CAN) permanently and instead crawling back to USA where you are forever in some friggin waiting line or backlogs or retrogression or quota??? How do you manage put up with this amazing level of humiliation day after day heaped on you??

Don't you really get it? The great land of Canada welcomes you into their land, processes your applications faster, gets your PR card quickly (also gets you a welcome at the border) and all you can think of is stabbing it, double-crossing and creeping back to the same hole in USA where you really dont even know if you are going to be let in or allowed to stay and worse...if you are even wanted!!

Rich
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As well established in US, yet a Canadian immigrant I could answer why. I appriciate a lot Canada's very healthy attitude to immigrants (money in exchange for a right to live in Canada). I really do!

However, considering that in US my effective tax rate is between 0 and 10% and only on US income, vs 50%+ in Canada on world income! and that, regardless of everything, in US income remains higher then anywhere in the world.... it is straight forward.

Don't get me wrong, I am Canadian at heart, yet as long as economically Canada would remain US "younger brother" with higher taxation in exchange for "socialist" way of life, there would be guys seeking life on the other side of the border.

I don't find it right or wrong, I find it the way life is. I do however think it would change once Canada adopts less brutual taxation and as a second in the world in richeness of carbon based fuels would break away in the lead over North America.

Viva Canada's riches that still could be had for merely $1000 per person and from all other things don't sell to commie China!
 
maple_cartier said:
Hey Alphabet fella,
The great land of Canada welcomes you into their land...
Rich
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As they say... on this, "you got me at hello".

Quoted statement is very true and very Canadian... yet would it hold over US better prosperity?

Immigration, prosperity and other things apart, on a human level, what would prevail?

I didn't answer that question for myself yet, yet I am proud that my life made me face such a question. So what would be considered "Canadian" on this behalf?
 
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