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Originally Posted by thatgirljudy
well you're right and wrong.
If I were ALLOWED to spend that much time in the US, yes I would. But the US does not let people stay longer than 6 months without a visa, in which case you are classified according to your visa. There may be a couple countries that they allow, but not Canadians and I doubt it for commonwealth countries also.
I should add that this is what i was told by a Canadian emigration employee, I never actually dug through the US website.
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it is true what you are saying, partly, but immigration and taxation are two different things, and it doesn't matter if you stay illegally or legally to the IRS, if you are in the u.s. for over 6 months you are counted as a U.S. resident
and there are millions of "technically illegals" in the U.S., it is just a technicality, as they can get tax numbers from the IRS no problem and are a necessary part of the u.s. economy.