A little puzzled about Canada, need help

i turned 18 in the US about a month ago, an i want to move to canada. ive checked a bucnh of websites and stuff. but its still unclear to me. Can someone help me figure out how much i have to pay to become a citizen? i plan on visiting with in 2-3 weeks. i already have a place to stay. but im gonna need to appply for a work permit, and the like

please and thanks in advance
peace
Phear

 

send me a cheque for 3000 american dollars and I'll have you citizenship in no time

 

sorry....we're full. :seeya:

 

that took no time at all to get replies, to bad they didnt shed any light on the situation

 

its harder then americans seem to realsie.

when crossing the border do naot give the border guards any impression that you plan to stay or to apply for a work permit.

they will not let you across always give them the impression you plan to return within 48 hrs.

once in canada get a bill any bill in your name, you need to prove residencey for 2 years at which point it becomes fairly easy.......ok a lot less difficult to get a citizenship./

imagine your a mexican trying to become american, there is little difference.

it ios possible.....its too bad you didnt live in a refugee camp without any skills or capacity for english, we would pay your way over and put you on welfare........

god my government is retarded!

 

you cant "buy" it...you have to earn the right and privilege to call yourself a Canadian:hat:...or you just have to be lucky enough to have been born here

 

While becoming a Canadian citizen is hard, getting a work visa is not. Call the Canadian Consulate in the US (google is your friend) and you should be able to get a work visa pretty easily.

 

Yea. Once here you'll also have to learn how to be as cool as us. :coolgleamA:

 

I have a few friends who weren't born here. One was a landed immigrant for about 30 years before getting her citizenship, another has been here 14 years and is only just eligible for citizenship recently.

You have to have something to offer, to be a useful citizen. Like going to school here, or be a doctor that we need...that sort of thing.

We don't need more homeless people.

 

I often wonder how so many middle eastern families are getting in. There are 1000's of them here in Ottawa. A lot of them are pretty violent too. There's an area near me where they all move to and they shoot guns off and shit EVERY night.

 

From what I understand, if you want to legally get a work visa if you are a certain age using a progam called SWAP. Student Work Abroad Program. I'd google that and see what you find. When I did the program. (Um.. .ten years ago so I'm sure it's changed. lol) It was a maximum of 6 months you could work.

I'm sorry that has been your experience. All of the middle eastern ppl I've met in Ottawa are awesome. In fact, some are my relatives.

 

That's pretty racist. You'd think something like guns going off every night would at least make the CBC news.

The Canadian government has quotas. From specific countries, there are a set number of immigrants that they take in, each year.

Immigrants locate to urban areas. Because that's where the most opportunities for them are. And, immigrants typically migrate to specific areas of their new country based on the existing rapport of minority communities there. Example, here in London, Ontario an influx of Colombians are the highest nationality that are locating here. Why? Because they have families here, friends from the old country, etc.

 

and don't forget commonwealth countries get preference in immigration usually of which the US of A is not a member

 

lol. It's not racist. It's a known fact. All I said was a lot of them are pretty violent, so are a lot of white people. Except white people (in my area) don't seem to wander around town at night shooting off guns. I never said I hated them or anything.

Once again, the media has focused our attention on the important issue of youth violence. A quick scan of the headlines past couple of days leaves the impression that violence amongst the teen population is spiralling out of control.

For example, "Thugs pound cops in downtown brawl," Ottawa Sun, Jan. 27. "Youth killed in Bayshore stabbing, Knife attack draws 90 days, Teen to serve 17 months for gang attacks," Jan. 30, the Citizen.

This recent violence in Ottawa-Carleton is not part of a larger trend in Canada. By failing to make this fact clear, the media escalates a growing panic in our community about young people and violence.

CANADIAN TEACHERS PRAISE YOUNG PUPIL'S STORY IN OTTAWA: "'YOU KILLED THEM ALL [THE JEWS].' AHMED [YASSIN] ANSWERED: 'PRAISE BE TO GOD.'"

"Islamic school suspends teachers over student's hate-filled tale. 'God bless you, your efforts are good,' instructor wrote on Ottawa boy's story celebrating violence, hatred against Jews" (By Juliet O'Neill, The Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2005)

The Ottawa Citizen reports that two teachers at a local Islamic school have been suspended for praising a young student for his violence-laden writing project inciting hatred against Jews. The suspension came when one of the students at the Abraar Islamic School wrote a story about Palestinians ambushing and killing Israelis.

On the cover page, the boy drew a burning Jewish star and a Palestinian flag atop the Dome of the Rock. The two teachers praised the project in comments written on the cover and margins.

"God bless you, your efforts are good," the teacher wrote on the title page. "The story of the hero Ahmed and the hero Salah is still alive. The end will be soon when God unites us all in Jerusalem to pray there."

On the margins inside the story, the teacher had written a note endorsing the boy's fantasy of a young Ahmed Yassin [of Hamas – see above] and his friend, Salah El-Dine, ambushing Israeli soldiers.

"Without thinking, Ahmed took his M16 machine-gun and threw the bombs, and he showered the Jews; this resulted in the killing of the soldiers," the boy's text reads. "Salah said: 'You killed them all.' Ahmed answered: 'Praise be to God.'"

Principal Aisha Sherazi said the seven-member school board and administration were "shocked" by teacher involvement in the project that was brought to her attention by the Ottawa Citizen last Wednesday, and decided at an emergency meeting to suspend the instructors. Mrs. Sherazi declined to name the student, for privacy reasons, or the teachers until the investigation is complete.

One teacher was apparently involved in the artistic production of the eight-page story of killing and martyrdom.

The Abraar School, established in 2000, teaches students full time from junior kindergarten up to Grade 8. About 260 students are enrolled at the school. The school web page says it is designed to provide "a proper Islamic environment for growing and learning" and to help preserve Islamic culture in Ottawa.

 

*cough*

 

Immigration lawyers can cost, but I don't know how much.
I don't know the rules for emmigrating from the states, but... from England:
The process of getting a work visa is not, in and of itself free. At some point, it's a couple of hundred to pay for the processing. Not a lot though, unless you're broke.

Here is a really good website to start with:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
Work Visa application:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/work/apply-how.asp

or study here
or visit
or, the best way, marry (preferably cuz you mean it... not just to get in).

My husband came from England this way:
1) Visit (short)
2) Visit (short)
3) Visit (6 months minus a day)
4) BUNAC, which is England's version of SWAP
5) Visit (6 months minus a day + an extension of 6 months - a day)
during which we got married
6) Permanent Residency - Spousal (applied for Out of Country, which means that the package is processed in your home Country - US for you, but which also means that you can be in Canada on another Visa at the time)

The permanent residency tool about 10 months to process and be approved once mailed in.