canadian citizen married to US green card holder..

Hi, I am a Canadian citizen and my spouse is a green card holder- we plan to have me relocate to the U.S- any advice on what restrictions I might face? I heard I am allowed to stay in U.S for 2 months at a stretch or is it 3?
Regards my job- what are the options? can I apply for US jobs- what sort of visa would I require?
Thanks!

A Canadian can spend up to 6 months in the USA a year as a tourist, can't work though! I hear it takes forever for a permanent resident to sponsor a spouse, I belive many just wait til lthey get their citizenship, then go with a fiance (k1) or a marriage based visa 9K3, cr-1 or ir-1) You could look into a TN visa, but one ahs to have certain skilsl that they are short of in the USA (ie nurse, etc) I'm sure there are other routes as well. Some immigration attornies will give you a 15 min consult for free. Cheers

Yeap, flames is right. Your spouse would have to sponsor you for a CR1 visa, (K3 is not an option to permanent resident petitioners) but as he's only a green card holder and not a US citizen, the process is a long one! Possibly several years in fact.

When is your spouse eligible to apply for US citizenship?

Here's the link to the I-130 petition for Alien Relative. Read thru the instructions there.

As a Canadian you can visit the US for up to 6 months at a time, either per trip, or per calendar year, whichever comes first. ie: if you arrive in the US in November, and you leave in April the following year, that's your allowed 6 months. You then would have to stay in Canada for another 6 months to be eligible for another 6 month extended stay in the US. You can't just go back to Canada for a few days, and turn around and go back to the US for another 6 months.

If you have a univeristy degree in a NAFTA approved field, you may be eligible for a TN visa. Then you'd have to find a company willing to hire you and sponsor you for the TN.

Your options are either wait out the CR1 petition process and just visit each other periodically back and forth (my husband and I did that for the first 3 years of our marriage.very stressful!) or find yourself a sponsor for a TN. Or have your husband move to Canada. But then he'd lose his residency in the US.

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