Six month limit for northerners?
Me and DW were having a conversation the other day about a siz month time limit for Canadians spending time in US. She thinks that Canadians can only spend a max of six months south of the border, the...
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almcc wrote:
As for the olygene's comment, Canada can't make clarifications for the US rules, and if the comment is referring to being out of Canada from a Canadian perspective, the time is dependent on the provincial health care rules (in some provinces it's 6 months, in Ontario it's 7 months and up to 2 years twice in your lifetime if you make an application) before you lose your "free" health coverage.
Some provinces and territories allow much greater leniency than that. One territory only requires you to be in the territory one day a year. However in any of them, even if you exceed the absence limits your health care privileges are only suspended for three months once you return. You can purchase a bridge policy to cover that. This is common practice for overseas workers who are often out of the country for long stays.
