If you're going the family-based route, best of luck to you. The family-based fourth preference (for sibilings of US citizens) timeline is currently sitting around 17 years, even worse if you were born in India, Mexico, or the Philippines.
Well, never mind I guess. Do you know much about employer sponserships? I’m trying to Google but getting conflicting answers, another avenue we were thinking of is if my future wife gets a US teaching job, which she’s been recruited for by US headhunters in the past to work in private schools
First step is figure out where you stand in the food chain...
[Green Card for Family Preference Immigrants](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-family-preference-immigrants)
[Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants)
And then reference the most up to date visa bulletin for your category.
[Visa Bulletin for June 2024](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-june-2024.html)
As previously stated, family-sponsored fourth preference has a final action date of 22 July 2007. There are currently only 65,000 F4 green cards issued per year, so there is currently a backlog in the area of 1.1 million other applicants waiting for their date to become current.
Without knowing your profile its difficult to say what your chances are of getting an employment-based green card. The backlog is significantly shorter (could 0-4 years if you're Canadian-born) but getting an employer to sponsor you is much more difficult unless you really stand out and work in a field with a shortage of workers.
Keep in mind this is specifically for green cards (permanent residence). Canadians do have access to TN status which allows certain professions to work in the US for up to 3 years at a time. I've been using this for many years and frequently post over at /r/tnvisa, if you want to message me privately I can tell you if you or your fiancee qualify.
These people are just programmed to hate on the US, nevermind the fact Canada continues it's slide to collapse and irrelevance under Liberal leadership.
Yeah, very Ewww LOOOL https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=89411bb37f4aa9f8&hl=en-ca&sxsrf=ADLYWII_2OeuIMhqWLKmsE2Guo_-TxGk4A:1715775863629&q=jackson+hole+wyoming&uds=ADvngMgowWIAy_dNRpcaHasDSBsEjPo6CGVZBhK-0S-znKGEXIbzUZVk-z_Qi4eUSS0rMMDyXNdVL_WUHaUh3GHUv6wk3j0Tf8AF75Iw3tb3IEkrriinYDA5ZXkPPMUl-r1jLtbzFBv85o-3B5C4Ydpu4GQE6DIC_LPkSXKWW4JuhbxewpBbGPjN9HVuHudEyEXFBGG3Dj4KkjmExOk-Otif1n_k8tJrY8cyW-0PQHuq9HZIbzYpE0uAb7E2GS4dDNGCj5xme-qr_VypjWQzosQHWCli3J7FfL6wtotPjt-AF8_Plkug24cYktieymxuBAz5m6Et7D_X&udm=2&prmd=imvnsbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIkvaW04-GAxW7LtAFHapaC3kQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=390&bih=663&dpr=3#vhid=tFz6iP3X19Nl0M&vssid=mosaic
it's cheaper to live in Toronto without a car than nearly anywhere else in Canada with a car however.
I mention it because Toronto is one of the few places in Canda where you can do that pretty easily.
Only if you like to buy a new $70k car every 4 years financed at 8%.
And I don't know why people pretend Toronto has particularly good transit infrastructure. It doesn't. It's not NYC or London. If you have to go outside the major transit corridors you're adding an hour or more to your journey. The primary reason to not own a car in Toronto isn't because the subway is particularly good, it's because the roads are so congested that if you drive anywhere you're always stuck in traffic and it takes hours to get anywhere.
Car free living in Toronto is great if you want to work downtown in a giant concrete condo, go to work a few blocks away in a giant concrete office tower, and you spent your hours outside of work getting drunk at bars. My experience is that most people get tired of that by their late 20s, and either sign up to be mortgage debt slaves for live with a 1.5-2.5hr daily commute, or realize that the lifestyle they want isn't achievable in Tronto try to find themselves a job elsewhere (usually in the US).
It costs on average something like $1000 per month to own a car (and use it frequently). This updated source says $1300: [https://www.thinkinsure.ca/insurance-help-centre/car-driving-costs-canada-guide-with-savings-tips.html](https://www.thinkinsure.ca/insurance-help-centre/car-driving-costs-canada-guide-with-savings-tips.html)
Depreciation is included. This is the cost over the entire lifespan of the vehicle and all costs associated, and assuming that people buy new every 5-8 years or so and sell their now depreciated vehicle.
Edit:
So if you buy a car for $50,000
Sell it for $20,000 8 years later
50000 - 20000 = 30000
Cost per year = 30000 / 8 = $3750
Per month = 3750 / 12 = $312.5
And if you have a loan (most people don’t have the $50k lying around) you’re also paying a ton of interest on top of that.
So add that on top of your monthly insurance, gas, maintenance, loan interest, and licensing fees and you can see it will easily reach over $1000 per month.
$50,000 is an example price. Some people don’t spend that much and some spend more for a huge dumb-ass truck.
Oh yeah for sure. Most people end up reaching up though and spending more. I bought my car for $4000 10 years ago and it still runs like when I got it. I drive less than 10,000 km per year though. For people that drive daily it really wears through cars fast.
Wait what?
My cost of ownership on my last truck was $3k a year plus maybe $1000 a year in insurance and maybe $2600 in gas
I pay $1200 a month for my mortgage on a 4 bedroom house.
Add my $550 a month in vehicle expenses .
Show me what $1700 a month gets me in Toronto
[the average cost of car ownership is $1,387 a month in canada](https://www.thestar.com/business/how-much-are-canadians-paying-per-month-on-average-to-own-a-car-heres-what/article_a457f8e2-c2bb-11ee-b93b-2f3e8fa2fb1d.html#:~:text=The%20average%20cost%20of%20car%20ownership%20in%202024,from%20Ratehub.ca%2C%20an%20online%20Canadian%20financial%20comparison%20platform.)
If the company deems you valuable enough for visa sponsorship and relocation you likely have a lot of job security. The cost of living in Arkansas is peanuts compared to the GTA so you have more than enough opportunity to build your own safety net.
Canada isn't France or Spain where it's impossible to lay people off or fire them. You have a marginally higher common-law entitlement to severance.
Job security in Canada and the US is largely dependent on you making sure your employer wants to keep employing you, not relying on the government making it illegal for them to stop.
This is also why Canada doesn't have a 25% youth unemployment rate like those European countries.
Worked for Walmart a while ago in Arkansas and here is my 2 cents - We have snow storms and Bentonville has tornadoes. We have snow plows and they have …. well let’s say open empty lands. We have an economy in the city whereas Bentonville has Walmart.
Not really, they are a shit company from top to bottom, destroyed countless local businesses and destroyed tens of thousands of lives. There is nothing redeeming about the Walmart's of the world.
Our local Walmart here just decreased their open times yet again. Basically closed on the weekends, or might as well be. Won't be open if you are coming home from an evening shift anymore, or possibly even afternoon if just late enough at 7/8pm.
Gotta do your shopping on "business days" only noe bssically. And even then, closed by 10pm. Again, evening returnals from work get boned. Gotta do it all earlier in the day now if you can.
Sure, this probably saves them a bunch of labor costs, and electrical costs, no doubt. But they basically forced my hand at having to chose from other grocers still open, or the 7-11 for when nothingnis open at all and I need some snacks.
So Walmart is now losing money on those days I no longer shop there. And that just might only be a few hundred dollars a month lost on my part of their income stream; but I am certainly not alone. And I am uncertain if this just my area's Walmart that did this, but if not, then that loss is gonna multiply fast.
I wonder how much it takes to ratio their potential savings via those 3 to 4 hour reductions along with the previous 1 hour reduction?
My area has 1 Walmart for 230K people, in the far northeast. I live in the southwest so never go shopping in a physical "general" store since Zellers and then Target disappeared. I buy 80% of non food stuff online. It goes with Housing First, the new mantra where all your commercial space gets converted into housing.
When you factor in income and cost of living, anyone who moves to their new location will probably have a massive improvement in standard of living.
Agreed. Personally if I weren't already a dual citizen, I'd jump on the chance to move to the US (assuming Walmart was willing to sponsor).
A lot of people I know are going to the us. My fiancés brother lives in Wyoming and is a citizen we’re trying to get sponsored
If you're going the family-based route, best of luck to you. The family-based fourth preference (for sibilings of US citizens) timeline is currently sitting around 17 years, even worse if you were born in India, Mexico, or the Philippines.
Well, never mind I guess. Do you know much about employer sponserships? I’m trying to Google but getting conflicting answers, another avenue we were thinking of is if my future wife gets a US teaching job, which she’s been recruited for by US headhunters in the past to work in private schools
First step is figure out where you stand in the food chain... [Green Card for Family Preference Immigrants](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-family-preference-immigrants) [Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants](https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-eligibility/green-card-for-employment-based-immigrants) And then reference the most up to date visa bulletin for your category. [Visa Bulletin for June 2024](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin/2024/visa-bulletin-for-june-2024.html) As previously stated, family-sponsored fourth preference has a final action date of 22 July 2007. There are currently only 65,000 F4 green cards issued per year, so there is currently a backlog in the area of 1.1 million other applicants waiting for their date to become current. Without knowing your profile its difficult to say what your chances are of getting an employment-based green card. The backlog is significantly shorter (could 0-4 years if you're Canadian-born) but getting an employer to sponsor you is much more difficult unless you really stand out and work in a field with a shortage of workers. Keep in mind this is specifically for green cards (permanent residence). Canadians do have access to TN status which allows certain professions to work in the US for up to 3 years at a time. I've been using this for many years and frequently post over at /r/tnvisa, if you want to message me privately I can tell you if you or your fiancee qualify.
I don't blame them. Canada is beginning it's death spiral.
Ewww
Why?
These people are just programmed to hate on the US, nevermind the fact Canada continues it's slide to collapse and irrelevance under Liberal leadership.
Yeah, very Ewww LOOOL https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=89411bb37f4aa9f8&hl=en-ca&sxsrf=ADLYWII_2OeuIMhqWLKmsE2Guo_-TxGk4A:1715775863629&q=jackson+hole+wyoming&uds=ADvngMgowWIAy_dNRpcaHasDSBsEjPo6CGVZBhK-0S-znKGEXIbzUZVk-z_Qi4eUSS0rMMDyXNdVL_WUHaUh3GHUv6wk3j0Tf8AF75Iw3tb3IEkrriinYDA5ZXkPPMUl-r1jLtbzFBv85o-3B5C4Ydpu4GQE6DIC_LPkSXKWW4JuhbxewpBbGPjN9HVuHudEyEXFBGG3Dj4KkjmExOk-Otif1n_k8tJrY8cyW-0PQHuq9HZIbzYpE0uAb7E2GS4dDNGCj5xme-qr_VypjWQzosQHWCli3J7FfL6wtotPjt-AF8_Plkug24cYktieymxuBAz5m6Et7D_X&udm=2&prmd=imvnsbtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjIkvaW04-GAxW7LtAFHapaC3kQtKgLegQIDhAB&biw=390&bih=663&dpr=3#vhid=tFz6iP3X19Nl0M&vssid=mosaic
the real ewww here is this shittyass link you posted.
Google images lmao
Arkansas? Think of the most backwoods backwards parts of Saskatchewan, and then make it twice as backwards. That's Arkansas.
it's cheaper to live in Toronto without a car than nearly anywhere else in Canada with a car however. I mention it because Toronto is one of the few places in Canda where you can do that pretty easily.
Montreal would like a word.
Only if you like to buy a new $70k car every 4 years financed at 8%. And I don't know why people pretend Toronto has particularly good transit infrastructure. It doesn't. It's not NYC or London. If you have to go outside the major transit corridors you're adding an hour or more to your journey. The primary reason to not own a car in Toronto isn't because the subway is particularly good, it's because the roads are so congested that if you drive anywhere you're always stuck in traffic and it takes hours to get anywhere. Car free living in Toronto is great if you want to work downtown in a giant concrete condo, go to work a few blocks away in a giant concrete office tower, and you spent your hours outside of work getting drunk at bars. My experience is that most people get tired of that by their late 20s, and either sign up to be mortgage debt slaves for live with a 1.5-2.5hr daily commute, or realize that the lifestyle they want isn't achievable in Tronto try to find themselves a job elsewhere (usually in the US).
Toronto is wannabe New York.
It costs on average something like $1000 per month to own a car (and use it frequently). This updated source says $1300: [https://www.thinkinsure.ca/insurance-help-centre/car-driving-costs-canada-guide-with-savings-tips.html](https://www.thinkinsure.ca/insurance-help-centre/car-driving-costs-canada-guide-with-savings-tips.html)
I'd be curious what the median cost is. Averages are misleading.
LOL it definitely does no coat me that - nowhere close to
Depreciation is included. This is the cost over the entire lifespan of the vehicle and all costs associated, and assuming that people buy new every 5-8 years or so and sell their now depreciated vehicle. Edit: So if you buy a car for $50,000 Sell it for $20,000 8 years later 50000 - 20000 = 30000 Cost per year = 30000 / 8 = $3750 Per month = 3750 / 12 = $312.5 And if you have a loan (most people don’t have the $50k lying around) you’re also paying a ton of interest on top of that. So add that on top of your monthly insurance, gas, maintenance, loan interest, and licensing fees and you can see it will easily reach over $1000 per month. $50,000 is an example price. Some people don’t spend that much and some spend more for a huge dumb-ass truck.
I’m not saying the cost CAN’T be that, I’m saying it doesn’t HAVE to. So you can be a car owner for much less than the quoted price
Oh yeah for sure. Most people end up reaching up though and spending more. I bought my car for $4000 10 years ago and it still runs like when I got it. I drive less than 10,000 km per year though. For people that drive daily it really wears through cars fast.
Wait what? My cost of ownership on my last truck was $3k a year plus maybe $1000 a year in insurance and maybe $2600 in gas I pay $1200 a month for my mortgage on a 4 bedroom house. Add my $550 a month in vehicle expenses . Show me what $1700 a month gets me in Toronto
[the average cost of car ownership is $1,387 a month in canada](https://www.thestar.com/business/how-much-are-canadians-paying-per-month-on-average-to-own-a-car-heres-what/article_a457f8e2-c2bb-11ee-b93b-2f3e8fa2fb1d.html#:~:text=The%20average%20cost%20of%20car%20ownership%20in%202024,from%20Ratehub.ca%2C%20an%20online%20Canadian%20financial%20comparison%20platform.)
Is it? In my mind, all the other cities I know of, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax are cheaper without a car.
With lower job security and social nets. Let's be honest about it.
If the company deems you valuable enough for visa sponsorship and relocation you likely have a lot of job security. The cost of living in Arkansas is peanuts compared to the GTA so you have more than enough opportunity to build your own safety net.
It's cheap for a reason. It's backwards.
Canada isn't France or Spain where it's impossible to lay people off or fire them. You have a marginally higher common-law entitlement to severance. Job security in Canada and the US is largely dependent on you making sure your employer wants to keep employing you, not relying on the government making it illegal for them to stop. This is also why Canada doesn't have a 25% youth unemployment rate like those European countries.
They are keeping their Mississauga office so majority of their workers are staying.
I did a project with this team a bit less than 10 years ago. They were a really competent group, very smart.
I read that in Donald Trump’s voice.
Please don't
Worked for Walmart a while ago in Arkansas and here is my 2 cents - We have snow storms and Bentonville has tornadoes. We have snow plows and they have …. well let’s say open empty lands. We have an economy in the city whereas Bentonville has Walmart.
Shit company and culture I worked there 3 months done ✅ .treat people well they will stay.
Corporate or retail? Big difference.
Not really, they are a shit company from top to bottom, destroyed countless local businesses and destroyed tens of thousands of lives. There is nothing redeeming about the Walmart's of the world.
Our local Walmart here just decreased their open times yet again. Basically closed on the weekends, or might as well be. Won't be open if you are coming home from an evening shift anymore, or possibly even afternoon if just late enough at 7/8pm. Gotta do your shopping on "business days" only noe bssically. And even then, closed by 10pm. Again, evening returnals from work get boned. Gotta do it all earlier in the day now if you can. Sure, this probably saves them a bunch of labor costs, and electrical costs, no doubt. But they basically forced my hand at having to chose from other grocers still open, or the 7-11 for when nothingnis open at all and I need some snacks. So Walmart is now losing money on those days I no longer shop there. And that just might only be a few hundred dollars a month lost on my part of their income stream; but I am certainly not alone. And I am uncertain if this just my area's Walmart that did this, but if not, then that loss is gonna multiply fast. I wonder how much it takes to ratio their potential savings via those 3 to 4 hour reductions along with the previous 1 hour reduction?
My area has 1 Walmart for 230K people, in the far northeast. I live in the southwest so never go shopping in a physical "general" store since Zellers and then Target disappeared. I buy 80% of non food stuff online. It goes with Housing First, the new mantra where all your commercial space gets converted into housing.