Last night after weeks of working on it, I finally sent off our Spousal Sponsorship / Permanent Residency package for my husband to get his residency in Canada. The package weighed 600grs (1 pound about) and was almost a ream of paper.
Having just gone through both processes I can state that Argentina's is by far EASIER, LESS TIME CONSUMING and a lot CHEAPER.
You keep saying 15 steps -- yes I separated them into 15 items, but that was to clarify exactly what you needed to do. You seem too lazy to actually research this yourself, so I don't know how you ever think you'll get the papers for the USA unless you pay a lawyer 1000s of dollars to do the paperwork for you.
To give you some idea, the document Checklist for Canada is 6 pages long.
First Canadian Immigration examines me to make sure I am fit to sponsor him. I have to present all of my financials, agree to support him for 3 years if he cannot find a job when he arrives. I had to write an essay stating our intentions to move with step-by-step plans as to how we will go about settling there.
Then his half, part of which is a record of all of his activities since the age of 18 (he's 32), medical exams, police certificates, everything translated of course.
2 separate questionnaires about our relationship, and list dates and locations when we met each other's families and friends, along with photo evidence. Evidence of continued correspondence since we've known each other. Airline tickets from the past 4 years and photocopies of every page of our passports highlighting trips. And our rental agreement together here (and translated of course)
10 pages of pictures of occasions spent with family and friends. Photos from our wedding and the numbers of guests, who attended, and original invitations to those weddings (there were two).
I had the priviledge of paying C$1040 for the visa + US$60 for the Fedex.
We can expect a response in about 10 months.
Argentina's process is nothing in retrospect.
By the way, getting your Argentine residency would just be a smart idea, because it will help to prove the authenticity of your relationship with your wife. One of my boyfriend's Argentine friends married an American, and they had the authorities knocking on their door every 3 months for the first couple of years that they lived in the States -- they were just "checking in" to make sure that the relationship was above board.
Having just gone through both processes I can state that Argentina's is by far EASIER, LESS TIME CONSUMING and a lot CHEAPER.
You keep saying 15 steps -- yes I separated them into 15 items, but that was to clarify exactly what you needed to do. You seem too lazy to actually research this yourself, so I don't know how you ever think you'll get the papers for the USA unless you pay a lawyer 1000s of dollars to do the paperwork for you.
To give you some idea, the document Checklist for Canada is 6 pages long.
First Canadian Immigration examines me to make sure I am fit to sponsor him. I have to present all of my financials, agree to support him for 3 years if he cannot find a job when he arrives. I had to write an essay stating our intentions to move with step-by-step plans as to how we will go about settling there.
Then his half, part of which is a record of all of his activities since the age of 18 (he's 32), medical exams, police certificates, everything translated of course.
2 separate questionnaires about our relationship, and list dates and locations when we met each other's families and friends, along with photo evidence. Evidence of continued correspondence since we've known each other. Airline tickets from the past 4 years and photocopies of every page of our passports highlighting trips. And our rental agreement together here (and translated of course)
10 pages of pictures of occasions spent with family and friends. Photos from our wedding and the numbers of guests, who attended, and original invitations to those weddings (there were two).
I had the priviledge of paying C$1040 for the visa + US$60 for the Fedex.
We can expect a response in about 10 months.
Argentina's process is nothing in retrospect.
By the way, getting your Argentine residency would just be a smart idea, because it will help to prove the authenticity of your relationship with your wife. One of my boyfriend's Argentine friends married an American, and they had the authorities knocking on their door every 3 months for the first couple of years that they lived in the States -- they were just "checking in" to make sure that the relationship was above board.
