states but come on, i know more then 20-30 families in the past who have moved from canada to the u.s. Please if anyone can answer my questions i would appreciate it" It is not so difficult to move to the us on a temporary visa (ie you will be considered a non us resident) and it is moderately difficult to get a green card. However it is rather difficult to actually obtain citizenship. So lots of people move to the us, but most of them never become citizens because it is impractical or too hard. I know so many people who move to the us, and I say 90% come back after they lose their job once in a 5 year period as required by law. For example, an accountant CA could move to New York and join a CA firm and get a tn visa in 1 day. His tn visa is only temporary even though it is renewable indefintaly techinically. However if the customs get the feeling your trying to immigrate they will deny your visa. He can even get visas to bring down his wife and send his kids to private school. To most people that would appear as a move to the usa. The second he loses his job, his wife loses her visa and so do all his dependents aka kids, he is only allowed to stay in the usa as a tourist at that point. Now if he manages to switch over to