Immigrating to United States from Canada.?

Question

What would i need to move to becaome a us citizen, and to be able to work there and stuff. I am moving to Atlanta when I ma 18 from Edmonton Canada. So what are all the requirements and stuff like that? (working visa etc.) give me all the info you know.

Answer 1

I am in Edmonton, Canada too, so I can understand you wanting to go to the U.S. after our last winter with snow lasting until the end of April.  

A couple years ago, I tried to join the U.S. Army.  The U.S. Army cyber recruiter told me how I can enlist after getting a Green Card, but I gave up when I found out that that either would not be possible or it would take years.

Besides marriage or family sponsorship, employer sponsorship is your only option, but that is not to say all you have to do is apply for jobs in the U.S. like any American.

At my engineering school, the U.S. employers who came looking for Canadian engineering students were only talking about visas, never Green Cards, and these are only for jobs "lacking American applicants."  Now, such visas can lead to a Green Card, but only after many years.

Canada does not qualify for the Green Card lottery because Canada has already sent over a lot of emigrants.

I could tell you to get a nursing or engineering degree to increase your chances of getting a visa to work in the U.S., but nothing can guarantee you will get in.  Windows of opportunity come and go.

The truth is the U.S. immigration system is not there to help you as an 18 year old Canadian to go to Atlanta.  It is, most likely, there to stop you.

Citizenship is not based on merit.  It is like a private club with arcane rules, designed to lower the number of people who would otherwise get in and do very well.  Nothing personal.

If we assumed that you cannot be allowed to live and work in the U.S. because of lack of merit relative to an 18 year old American girl, we would also have to assume the same 18 year old American girl has the merit to be in the U.S., but not in Canada with you.  The contradiction would be absurd, especially since, most likely, we couldn't even tell a Canadian girl apart form the American girl.

The U.S. has millions of native born serious criminals who, if citizenship were merit based, would be the 1st ones to be deported to whatever African country the U.S. could bribe to take them.  

I have no clue why the U.S. doesn't just open the border completely to Canadian workers.  Even if you compete for jobs with Americans, the economy expands with the population to create jobs.  How else could the U.S. go from 0 to 300 million in 400 years?

Answer 2

CONTACT THE US IMMIGRATION AND ASK

Answer 3

Unless you have a U.S. citizen boyfriend to marry or a relative who is a U.S. citizen or you plan to study there, then you will not be moving to the U.S. when you are 18 since you will not meet the criteria to do so.

I suggest you start searching for universities or try match.com

Answer 4

I wish you well. I can tell you are very intelligent because you are leaving Canada and coming to a great country.  As for all the losers advising you against your move don't listen, they have made poor choices in life and are looking for some way to vent their frustration.

Answer 5

Canada is a wealthier and more beautiful country!

only a f00l would move from Canada to USA!

Answer 6

I would stay in Canada, except for the socialized medicine and socialized this and that.  Socialism sucks.

You will find it tough going here in the states too.  And it is getting worse everyday.

Medical insurance here will cost you a very large part of your income and still  pays only part of your medical costs.

You have a very tough choice to make.  I don't envy you at all.  

If you do decide to move here, don't make the mistake of working for the U.S. government.  That's like working for Satan.  You have to sell your soul to keep your rotten job.

Answer 7

To become a US citizen, you've got to be here for, like, a long time.  A work permit is easier:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/m...

PS I'm going the other way--Minneapolis to Montreal!  Maybe we'll cross paths.

Answer 8

from the frying pan to the live coal

Americans want go in Canada

Canadians want go in America

you must have lost yo mind

Answer 9

i'm in the US. if i were you i wouldn't come here, i would stay in canada. things have gotten bad for us due to lower class immigrants. things has gotten expensive and its not easy at getting jobs (good paying) without a degree.

i wouldn't make that move if i we're you

Answer 10

Moving from a beautiful place to a mess.......Are you crazy?