How does a U.S, Citizen move to Canada?

Hi,
I'm a U.S. citizen trying to move to Canada and wanted to know how I go about doing that. I have a Master's Degree in Elementary Education, a Bachelors Degree in sociology, and has been working as a social worker (Determines clients continuing eligibility for Medicaid, Food stamp, Cash Assistance, Housing, Refugee, Relocation Assistance, and to provide aide to families with dependent children) with the Department of Children and Family Services for over ten years now. How and where do I begin in trying to get a work permit, so that I can move there and start working, which would lead to permanent residency? If not through a work permit is there another way? Please any one with any ideas? Thanks a lot.

Have you looked at the Canadian Immigration website for information?

There are also a few forums that may help
http://www.canadavisa.com/
http://roadtocanada.com/

hey i am a canadian wishing to stay in the states for 6 months (pleasure trip)starting in septmeber and could quite possibly wish to apply for an extension of stay. Just wondering how I would go about doing this while in the u.s. and also if i need to request a form I-94 when i initially am entering the u.s. border in september. Also, would it be wise to tell homeland sec, my true intentions to stay for 6 months or would you suggest i advise them of a shorter time stay when i arrive at the border?

Thanks,

cannuck

It is very very rare that a Canadian would be granted and extension of a visit longer than the initially allowed 6 months.

Whether or not you should tell a border official your plans to stay for 6 months will depend on your intent to return to Canada, and the proof you have of that. And the mood of the official.

They will ask you how are you funding your extended stay, and do you have a job in Canada, and how can you manage to be away from it for so long and yadda yadda yadda.if you have no ties to Canada, and no obvious intent to return to Canada, you will have some difficulty.

Yeah, basically they will only allow it for some reason such as undergoing a medical procedure or if you are co-habiting with someone who is a longer term visa.

Getting an I-94 is actually a disadvantage as USCIS will usually grant it for six months or less, depending on what you say to them. They can impose the I-94 on you if you say to them you're staying for weeks and they want to make sure there is a report of you leaving (as you surrender the I-94 when you leave).

If there is no I-94 there is no record of your leaving so it's basically an honour system, at least at a land border. Case law is that Canadian citizens cannot be banned from entry for merely overstaying previously in B-2 status, but if you did something else, e.g. worked or violated B-2 status in some other way they can give you a ban. Plus if you overstayed in B-2 status the USCIS officer still has the discretion to simply deny you entry rather than formally ban you, because you're giving misleading information on how long you intend to stay.

Q1 You said if you don't have an I-94 then they won't have a record of you leaving but isn't that what the biometric passport does? I thought that the biometric passport would put into the computer when you entered and left.

Q2 You said that a person may be denied entry if you mislead them about how long your visit will be? How do they know how long you originally said you'd be staying? Do they write all that down when you drive through the POE?

me confused.thank you

The RFID stuff isn't in place yet, that's what the CBP ads on the TV are on about at the moment. I think they said by October it would be in place. Even then you've got to have a passport with the RFID chip in it for it to work.

Apparently since January they do enter pretty much everything onto their system about your entry.