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I'm kind of in a strange boat right now where I'm really comfortable in Canada yet I can't shake this feeling I need to get over to the US of A in order to take advantage of that strong USD. I, like many Canadians, work for an American firm and have a TN visa. Recently, my employer offered to sponsor me for a green card, if I ever choose to relocate to the USA. I can live pretty much anywhere I want as I'm a remote employee, but I do travel to the USA for client work.

It's a tough decision to make. While I consider it, I thought I'd ask the community. So, say you good lemmings?

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[–] jcocoa 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would get the green card and figure out where I want to live later. Nothing about getting it would preclude you eventually settling back down in Canada. But it opens up living in Hawaii or Florida or Texas or New Orleans - very different cultural and climatic environments to anything we have in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's my thought too. It'll take roughly 2 years to get my green card I'd imagine. 2 years is still 2 years though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bro required about 11 years for his green card. This is important:

  • at the time, you needed to have a visa that allowed you to be working and living in America.

  • each h1b is 4 years. You get 2.

  • there was no grift for queue-jumping back then

I'm not sure you can do it on a TN, nor from outside. H1, J1, etc, may be your only hope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the info. My lawyer said they can do it from a TN and the company will sponsor me.

[–] jwmgregory 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

inb4 all the comments immediately telling you it’s a bad idea i just wanna say that this isn’t a bad opportunity. america isn’t nearly as bad in day-to-day life as it seems and depending on your field you’ll almost certainly receive a large pay raise versus employment in canada. considering you can relocate anywhere in the US, cost of living shouldn’t be an issue. you very well might be able to find significantly lower cost of living in multiple american localities than in canada. if your benefits are good from your employer and can offset the costs of losing access to socialized medicine, you very well might be able to increase your gross income by a fairly significant amount. it just really amounts to playing your cards right and i’m getting the vibe you have a whole lot of wiggle room with your choices here. if you can square a lot of these issues away, america is a pretty great place to live all things considered. do realize you are entering a very volatile social atmosphere, however, and recognize you might become significantly “closer,” both physically and otherwise, to the primary major hotspots of global political instability. this isn’t necessarily bad, depending on you personally. there’s a unique opportunity for change in america currently, and it would be baseless to claim the mere existence of things like political activism, terrorism, gun violence, etc. inherently discount being here in principle. the vast majority of americans have never experienced an act of terror. in fact, if you care about a lot of global issues currently ongoing, then generally speaking america is likely your best bet for your activism or ideas to have significant impact

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hell no, that country seems to be on track for a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Canadian's thinking

What ABOUT our thinking? #l2s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's easy to blame Trudy when it's all levels of gov't. Healthcare for example is provincial.

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