| ▲ | apercu 2 days ago |
| In Canada I had to leave and re-enter for my permanent resident status to complete. It’s not that uncommon - but it’s a pain. |
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| ▲ | smnrchrds 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| In Canada you never have to leave to renew or change status; it's just sometimes faster to do so. It's always the applicant's choice. I went through the whole work permit to PR to citizenship pipeline without ever having to leave the country. |
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| ▲ | sanswork 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not sure if its the same in Canada but when I went through the process for Australia it depended on where you started the process. I started the process while outside the country so to activate my visa I had to leave and come back but if I had filed while in the country I could have stayed. I do remember Canada telling my partner she wouldn't be guaranteed reentry while they were processing her PR visa until it was finalised if we left the country though so we just ended up doing the Australian half first and I never went back. | | | |
| ▲ | euio757 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > I went through the whole work permit to PR to citizenship pipeline without ever having to leave the country. You're comparing apples to oranges. People going from non-immigrant visa (H1B, F1 etc.) to Green card via i485 "adjustment of status" do not need to leave the country either. Only consular processing (ds 260) are in scope of this pause https://www.ellis.com/resources/immigrant-visa-pause-2026 Has more details than the paywalled article | | |
| ▲ | smnrchrds 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I had a study permit at first. I renewed my permit, got a work permit, renewed my foreign passport and extended my work permit, got PR and got citizenship, getting visas to match my work and study permits, over a period of 10 years, without ever having to leave Canada. So my experience is that in Canada you never have to leave but in the US you do. My classmates who had gone to the US for PhD programs, even those who were fortunate enough to get multiple entry visas, had visas that allowed re-entry for only the first two years of the PhD program. After that, if they wanted to leave the US, say for a conference or to visit family, they would have had to apply for a visa from abroad and hope to be granted one. In Canada, I could apply for the visa and get it while in Canada. Even comparing like with like, the American system seems bizarre to me, looking at it from a Canadian lens. | |
| ▲ | arjie 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, but they tried to change Adjustment of Status too. https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-... I don't think the practice of the change is significant. Reddit has numerous stories of people who are still receiving it, so whatever that release says, things haven't changed. People seem to be receiving AoS based Green Cards the same way I did under the Biden Administration. It does seem to be a bit more uncertain which is always troubling. |
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| ▲ | apercu 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I did it 20+ years ago and I had to “land”. They’ve relaxed a lot of immigration rules since then so it might have changed. |
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| ▲ | fidotron 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| "Flagpoling" was the beautiful euphemism for this. |
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| ▲ | PierceJoy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| OP isn't criticizing the practise of leaving to renew. He's criticizing the this new policy of not letting you back in when you leave. |
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| ▲ | kashunstva 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Really? My spouse and I lived in Canada on work permits and were not required to leave in order to achieve PR status; nor to achieve citizenship status. |
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| ▲ | jbm 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Prior to Covid, my wife had
to exit the country to get photos taken as part of the permanent resident process. We took a trip to Montana for
that purpose. This seems to have changed in the past 3-4 years, but as the GP said, the original process did involve leaving. | | |
| ▲ | apercu a day ago | parent [-] | | Thanks. And yea, my PR was in 2004. Citizen now but living in the US again. |
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