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QUESTION:
My kids and I are canadian citizen. we are going to US to visit my Partner there. How long can we stay in US?
Thank you.
david ingram replies:
There is no defined length of stay. That is determined by the person you meet at the US POE (Port of Entry) as you apply to enter the US at the airport or land crossing.
She or he will determine your length of stay by what you say or ask for when yu enter the US.
If you say you are going for a week, you should leave in a week. If you say you are going for a month and are admitted, you should leave at the end of that month OR go to a local Homeland Security Office and apply for an extension of time. the longest papewrless visit time given out is six months as a rule.
You describe the person you are going to visit as your Partner.
If that means a sexual living together type partner, than they may not allow you in if the Homeland Security officer feels you are trying to live in the USA with that person. If you are asking for months, you are not likley to be allowed in unless you can prove your intent to return to your home in Canada.
If, for instance, you are moving within Canada and putting your furniture in storage for 3 months while intending to visit your partner in the US, you are inadmissable because to be a visitor in the US, you MUST have:
1. A home available to you to go home and sleep / live in that very day.
2. ACTIVE Hydro, gas, telepone service at that location in your name.
3. NO ONE Else paying rent and occupying that space while you are visiting the US. i.e. you did not rent your place out to a student for three months while you are gone.
When crossing the border it is wise to have a 'border kit'
A border kit consists of:
1. A Copy of your rental agreement or ownership papers for the place you live - a property tax bill is nice
2. A copy of your Provincial driver's licence
3. A copy of your Canadian Passport
4. A copy of your provincial medical plan and the bill or statement showing the address it si sent to
5. A copy of your telephone bill and the address it is sent to.
6. A Copy of car registration and licence and address registered to
7. copies of the assessments for your last three Canadian tax returns includingthe address they were sent to.
6. letter from your employer stating where you work, etc.
7. A statement about your business, its location and type if self employed.
8. A copy of the front of the telephone book and your current listing page from the book (the three past is really good)..
9. copies of invoices to your address from unions, clubs, banks, credit unions, etc.
10. copies of any membership cards you have such as health club, tennis club, archery club, etc.
11. copies of your doctor or dentist bills and the address
12. anything else you feel is relevant and will show your intent to return to Canada.
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$1,700 would be for two people with income from two countries
Catch - up returns for the US where we use the Canadian return as a guide for seven years at a time will be $150 to $500.00 per year depending upon numbers of bank accounts, RRSP's, existence of rental houses, self employment, etc.
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This is not intended to be definitive but in
general I am quoting $900 to $2,900 for a dual country tax
return.
$900 would be one T4 slip one W2 slip one or
two interest slips and you lived in one country only (but were filing both
countries) - no self employment or rentals or capital gains - you did not move
into or out of the country in this year.
$1,100 would be the same with one rental
$1,300 would be the same with one business no
rental
$1,300 would be the minimum with a move in or
out of the country. These are complicated because of the back and forth foreign
tax credits. - The IRS says a foreign tax credit takes 1 hour and 53
minutes.
$1,600 would be the minimum with a rental or
two in the country you do not live in or a rental and a business and foreign tax
credits no move in or out
$1,700 would be for two people with income from two countries
$2,900 would be all of the above and you moved
in and out of the country.
This is just a guideline for US / Canadian
returns
We will still prepare Canadian only
(lives in Canada, no US connection period) with two or three slips and no
capital gains, etc. for $200.00 up.
With a Rental for $400, two or three rentals
for $550 to $700 (i.e. $150 per rental) First year Rental - plus
$250.
A Business for $400 - Rental and business
likely $550 to $700
And an American only (lives in the US with no
Canadian income or filing period) with about the same things in the same range
with a little bit more if there is a state return.
Moving in or out of the country or part year
earnings in the US will ALWAYS be $900 and up.
TDF 90-22.1 forms are $50 for the first and
$25.00 each after that when part of a tax return.
8891 forms are generally $50.00 to $100.00
each.
18 RRSPs would be $900.00 - (maybe amalgamate
a couple)
Capital gains *sales) are likely $50.00
for the first and $20.00 each after that.
Catch - up returns for the US where we use the Canadian return as a guide for seven years at a time will be $150 to $500.00 per year depending upon numbers of bank accounts, RRSP's, existence of rental houses, self employment, etc.
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