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Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: Military Pensions?
Hi there I was given your website and name from some friends of mine, that we are staying in BC with. I have a question in regards to working in the USA partime and both my self and my wife are retired military on pensions. We read in a snow birds book somewhere that if we work while in the USA we can be taxed by the Americans as income with our pensions? Is this correct? Who can we contact or get more information from to answer this question? I have been on the internet and looked all over and I sent an email to David Ingram last week with this same question and have had no reply to date. We are attempting to have this question answered before we cross over to the USa. We als have family that lives in USA, can they sponsor us? Green Cards are required? Thank you for any assistance in this matter Mr and Mrs G
The only email I seem to have received from you is this
one and it is number 843 of over 2,000 emails received since Aug 29, 2002 when
I left for a six week working trip.
You cannot work in the USA without a working visa.
You (an individual) cannot apply for a visa. You have to have an employer
offer you a job. The employer than applies for you and other than
seasonal farm work or some designated occupations like nurses and boiler
makers, it is virtually impossible to get "part-time" visas.
At the moment, a green card for anyone applying on their
own takes about 14 years and you cannot enter the USA while you are waiting for
it.
If your mother or father or a son or daughter was
sponsoring you, it takes about 1 and 1/2 years. A brother or friend is no
faster than being on your own.
You could get divorced, have your friends get divorced,
marry each other and have the new husband and wife sponsor each of you, get
your green cards in about 1 year and then get divorced and remarried.
I say that with only a little tongue in cheek because I
have seen it happen a dozen times over the last 40 years.
Your Canadian military pensions become subject to US tax
as soon as you are in the US for more than 183 days in any calendar year
whether you work or not.
Anything more, you should arrange for a phone
consultation which will cost you about $350.00. You could also head to
the US through Vancouver and see me personally.
Whatever you do - DO NOT WORK - without a visa. I
have had too many "nice" people arrested for acting as the manager of an RV
lot, helping out their US brother at their store in the mall, or buying a
ladder and delivering it to a construction site.
BEFORE you make aphone or inperson appointment (604)
913-9133, please read the following and it would be good if you had them
printed out and read before you phoned.
Go to www.centa.com
and click on "Entering the US(http://www.centa.com/entering_the_united_states.htm)
for more information about visas and
then click on US / Canada Income taxation
(http://www.centa.com/U.S.Cdntaxation.htm)
for more informationa bout taxation between Canada and the US.
Next, go to Newsletters and find the April, 1994
newsletter which is addressed to "snowbirds" (http://www.centa.com/0494.html).
> > david ingram - www.centa.com 108-100 Park Royal South West Vancouver, BC, CANADA, V7T 1A2 (604) 913-9133 - Fax (604) 913-9123 cell (604) 657-8451 (10 AM to 10 PM 7 days) US / CANADA Income Tax and Working Visa Matters |
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