I looked at the visa bulletin today and felt so grateful to my husband who took the initiative to get us a Canada PR in 2020. We moved to Canada during the pandemic and are expecting Canadian citizenship any time in the next 6 months. We are both managers and will be able to get our EB1C green cards with our old priority dates (2014 and 2015) bypassing all the wait you guys will be dealing with. Tough luck, folks!
Are you still in Canada?
Nice! You will eventually have US/Canadian dual citizenship + OCI.
And dual taxation
There are tax treaties in place to ensure you don't pay dual tax
Still in Canada, right?
I can relate OP. My wife and I saw the writing on the wall for EB2/EB3 India a while back (5+ yrs ago), took the painful step of temporarily uprooting our lives here, getting our companies to sponsor an international posting (in EU if anyone cares), came back on L1A and fast forward we now have our GCs. At that time, a lot of our friends were derisive saying things like "who does this for a GC" and "you guys are crazy" and now those same "well-wishers" will scream "EB1C scammers". No pain no gain!! Also - f*ck them all, and boy does it feel to have our greencards now!
Happy for you. From the sound of it, seems you and hubby make a good team.
So much life change for GC. Good for you OP but this route isn’t for everyone and you saying it in the manner that you are just shows how petty you can be
It's not just pettiness...its making the point that being sheep doesn't pay.
>>> bypassing all you guys that are waiting Was there a need for the OP to say this, unless they're basically bragging?
Hasn’t EB1 been retrograded for Indians? The wait is 10yrs now! Also, an EB2 priority date can not be ported to EB1 - you’ll need to reapply with a fresh priority date for EB1. Good luck OP ^
EB1 India is now 2017 so OP and spouse should be alright. You can retain your prior EB2/EB3 dates for EB1 upgrade, that is partly the reason the EB1 dates are so retrogressed.
You can port your eb2 priority date to eb1. That is the reason for eb1 retrogression. All the eb2s with older priority date are upgrading to eb1 while keeping their previous eb2 priority dates
This is the only way. But why did you wait to get the Canadian citizenship if your plan was to come back on EB1C? I went to Ireland for 18months as a manager and transferred back and applied for EB1C
Realistically for folks with EB1 India PD of >2020, even this will be a stretch as you'll start seeing a lot of porting of the older EB2/EB3 dates to EB1 as folks get desperate
You'd rather have all the bases covered. If the employer lays them off, they can't really come back on an internal transfer
There's just so much prejudice against Canada from some people from South Asia. These individuals have never set their foot in Canada and yet think it's a shitty country. They would rather live in anguish and anxiety obliged to stay in their jobs so they can stay in the USA with hopes of getting a GC in a decade or so. Well, to each their own.
It's a shitty place for anyone immigrating now. You probably already own a 🏠 and are well settled. It's a nightmare for new immigrants. Stop misleading people.
Canada is over immigrated which has lead to a shortage in both healthcare and housing for citizens and immigrants a like.
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OP - Hopefully you are not superstitious. This post will only get you “badduas” from everyone who’s waiting for 10-15 years in the EB2 queue.
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