ralphster

If you are looking at where to potentially settle in Canada, does it make more sense to

1) enter on a standard 6 month visitor visa and flagpole in the States as many times as you need to until you are ready to settle, or is PR the only way to go?

2) Can you actually keep flagpoling at the US/Canadian border without returning to the UK over a period of time, or does the Canadian border eventually tell you to go back to the UK and do you have to stay a certain length of time in the UK before returning to Canada?

victorfoxtrot

I'm here on a visitor visa, and have been here since Sept 2010, living with my partner to gain enough time together for common-law sponsorship. My initial 6 months was due to expire at the end of March 2011, and I wondered whether or not I could simply make a day trip to the US to extend it for another 6, but a few members on here mentioned that travelling into the US, even for as much as 2 weeks, did not result in another stamp for 6 months in their passport at CDN immigration - in fact they got nothing at all, so effectively their original date stamp was still valid. I decided not to take this chance and applied to extend my visitor status via the online service on CIC website. I believe CDN immigration take a dim view of people constantly coming in on visitor visas for a long time, and will start to challenge you as to your long term intentions.

Why do you need this though? Looks from your timeline and other posts that you are being sponsored by your wife - I can't imagine you would need to extend your visitor status more than once, or maybe not at all since it is already in progress.