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Thanks again nelsona - I think this clears it all up. We appreciate your replies, as well as those of others - very helpful. We also understand we'll need to file form T2062 "Request by a Non-Resident of Canada for a Certificate of Compliance Related to the Disposition of Taxable Canadian Prope...

Nelsona, thanks again for your replies - much appreciated. To your questions: 1) I have been living in the US in a house we purchased here about a year ago. So the Canadian house, we've owned that for close to 10 years now, and it has been my wife and my daughter's principal residence to date, as we...

Thanks again for your answer nelsona. I was hoping I wouldn't need to revive this thread, but we have two more questions, in case someone can answer. 1) Sale of the house - "by US rules, you have 3 years to sell a home before it loses its tax exempt status". If my wife and I are both joint...

Thanks again nelsona, great information. We weren't planning on choosing a phony departure date, but we can move anytime once my wife is on maternity leave. I assume that we don't have to move with all the belongings at once, and since the house will remain in Canada we can keep some things there an...

Great information, as usual - thanks nelsona and CdnAmerican. So I guess our plan looks like this: - Declare ourselves as non-residents once my wife moves to the US. I don't know if there is a benefit to have this happen right on Jan 01, does it simplify the declaration for 2012 since we avoid being...

Hi nelsona - many thanks for your prompt and detailed reply. It was our understanding that I could not avoid being considered a Canadian "resident for tax purposes", since the house in Canada is in both my wife and my name. Hopefully that wasn't a blunder, as I paid quite a bit of money in...

Hi - This is my first post on this forum, which has been a much appreciated source of information on all matters tax and immigration for many months - many thanks to all the usual posters. I'm a Canadian citizen who moved to the US 3 years ago on a TN, which became a H1B, and then a GC this year. My...