can-hawaii wrote: Everything worked out fine and it took the usual amount of time.
What do you consider "usual amount of time"?
I have my permanent resident card now. The advice I have is to make sure to get married in the US due to you have to file in the country you got married in. If you get married in Canada but plan to live in the US you have to file from canada and stay there until all your paper work goes through which can take a while.
That is simply not true at all. Only if your plan is to go for the K3 is that even partially true. I got K3, and got married in the US. And, visited during the process. If you marry in the US, the visa will be processed in your home country.
[qte] The fiance visa takes about 3 months or so to process so you would have to sit in Canada until that came through and then you must marry withing 3 months of the time the visa is given to you. [/quote]
Again, only partially true. The petition for K1 takes currently about 6 months to approve, and then there is a further 3 to 4 months before the interview will be scheduled. All told, just slightly less than a year.
I would definately recommend getting an immigration lawyer, even though the forms are free to get, filling them out properly can be confusing. I remember I was going to fill them out myself then found it to be a bit of a hassle and ended up going with a lawyer due to advice given from another canadian who went through the same thing. It was good that I did cause my lawyer checked some different boxes than I did, which no doubt would have messed up my application. It was just so much easier, he filled everything out and I only had to sign the papers and provide supporting documents. And I had peace of mind knowing it was filled out correctly.
Entirely a personal choice. A lawyer is not needed, if one follows the directions on the forms correctly. And Visa Journey has ample examples of correctly completed forms to peruse, and has managed to get dozens upon dozens of couples thru the process without the cost of a lawyer.
So my question is, I have my permanent resident status and plan to try and get my dual citizenship. I was reading the guide to naturalization and it says that when you apply to become a US citizen, you have to denounce all other allegiances to foreign countries, I heard of people being dual citizens, does this mean I have to give up my canadian citizenship? Canada allows you to have dual, so is it only americans obtaining canadian citizenship? or when its the other way around, do the americans make you give up the canadian? I might as well pack up and head home cause I wont give it up. Does anyone know about this?
Technically the US does not recognize "dual" citizenships. You must say in the oath that you renounce any other country you may be a national of, However, Canada does not recognized that oath, so you can keep your Canadian citizenship. When you travel, if you go back to Canada, you should enter with your Canadian passport, when you come back to the US, you should enter with your US passport.
In order to officially renounce Canadian citizenship, one must go to Ottawa (or a Canadian consul office in whichever country they're living) and fill out a bunch of paperwork and pay fees and a bunch of other stuff.
There are pros and cons to getting US citizenship, and you should probably figure them all out before you decide to submitt the N-400 application. The oath is only part of it.
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