esirois

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1/12/2015
Topic: Sponsorship Questions - Moving from the US

esirois

Hi all.

I'm Canadian by birth. I moved to the USA a few years ago. I got married and have two children.

I know the kids are citizens by birth and I just need to get them proof of citizenship.

I am wanting to move back to Canada and get a job as a police officer. My thoughts are to apply from the states and travel back there for the interview and testing process and everything else thats part of the police selection process. If I am selected then that is when we would move and only then.

My issue however is this how are we supposed to go about moving back to Canada.

If we applied for my wife to have permanent residence from the states it would take like 20 months (I think that was the waiting time last we checked for applications from the USA). We don't want to and really can't wait that long to move.

Would we be able to all of us go to Canada and apply for my wife to get permanent residence by marriage from Canada?

Would she be able to do this?

I know once we apply for permanent residence through marriage she will get a workers permit, but how long-ish will it take for her to receive that?

We want to know how long she will be on her visitor visa and how many times we would need to apply to extend it.

We can't be apart as we will not be able to afford housing for me in Canada and her in the USA so we all need to move together at one time.

We don't want to take any risks and wrap things up in the states only to get to Canada and be told she can't enter.

We really want to move to Canada and only will if I got the job and once I do we wont have 2 years to apply and wait for decisions. We would need to move rather fast.

I have tried contacting the Canadian embassies in the USA and they will not answer any questions. the CIC website is really vague for my issues and their call center only accepts calls from within Canada.

Please help us.

I want to return Home.

Thank you all in advance.