I will start a new job in Jan 2020 in Seattle on OPT (F1 visa). I just got my passport with Canadian PR. How can I extract maximum benefits from my situation?
Nationality?
Option1) Do 2 - 2.5 yrs on OPT, get an approved H1b, stamped on your passport, move to Canada immediately after that. Stay in Canada for 2.5 yrs, come back to US on H1b just before your previous stamp expires (new employer, new H1b will be valid for 3 yrs from there on). Work for a year or less and move back to Canada, apply for citizenship. With citizenship move back to US for good on H1b (because your h1 will still be valid) with a new employer. Option 2) Forget OPT etc, move to Canada, get citizenship and then TN visa in US. Option 3) While working in US on OPT, find an employer who’ll do your H1b, and then will let you work remote from Canada (or full time remote work from US itself). This way you can be an employee of a US company and live in Canada, get citizenship while keeping H1b active (not many companies do this). Any meetings as such, you can always fly in. stay in the same coast / time zone.
Option 3 sounds like a tax nightmare for any firm.
Not necessarily. It’s more of a hassle for the employee. Pay and file taxes in the US as a resident (because you have to maintain a US address for payroll) even if not present physically. (IRS is happy as long as it gets tax money, and USCIS/DHS is happy as long as immigrant is legal). And then pay additional tax (difference) in Canada because of reading in Canada. I know of people who worked full time remote while being in the US. Not sure why it’d stop them from doing so just across the border in the same time zone when on h1b.
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