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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

183 points proberts | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

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mdawwg ◴[17 Oct 24 17:59 UTC] No.41871989[source]▶
Good morning,

I am a dual US / Canada citizen and currently living & working in the US.

I am looking into moving to Canada, and was wondering what kind of issues I could run into if I wanted to continue working for the US company while living in Canada.

I am working for a small sized start-up, and I am pretty certain they have no experience in this kind of thing, so I wanted some more info before breaking the ice.

Thank you

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1. proberts ◴[17 Oct 24 18:32 UTC] No.41872354[source]▶
This is a payroll/tax issue. Many employers in these situations use an Employer of Record, such as Deel, to employ U.S. citizens living and working abroad but you also could be employed directly as a W-2 employee.