Watch out for the scammers though...

I believe that there is a growing number of unlicensed immigration consultants "selling" jobs and TWPs which is against the law.

Again check the bona fides of any "Consultant" and do your due diligence.

Filling in forms is not easy but there is plenty of help available at boards like britishexpats.com. Consultants (even licensed ones) will not speed up the process but will cost you a lot of money.

Best of luck.

I still think Canada is a great country, even if the winters drive me potty, BUT the line-ups for de-icing at Pearson are about as efficient as possible!

What do I miss about my old country - proper fish and chips, deep fried pizza (only sometimes), Marks and Spencer, about it...

Health care can be an issue too - so perhaps a two-tier system like the UK might be in order ?

I pay less tax than I would in the UK (given the tax breaks here), and I earn more than I would in an equivalent position with, for example, BA. Mind you, by this time, I would have made a decent position on the command scale, which takes FOREVER here...thanks to the "I want to operate beyond 60" brigade...:8

Are the people that are moaning about healthcare in this country the ones that really REALLY need it and are suffering life threatening diseases that require IMMEDIATE treatment?

From my close first hand experience with my son recently who has the above...we didn't have any wait times at all..and he has doctors and specialists queuing up for him. Nor did we pay for any of this many treatments and surgeries...nor were we given the runaround by any department.
I don't have any problem with Canadian healthcare...and I am an immigrant from the backwater called the UK.

My wife who works as a nurse says the people that moan the most..often need it the least.

What country would you like to compare Canada's healthcare to? I am sure whichever one it is will say they have their own problems. The UK sure does.

I would far rather have the services of the NHS in the UK than the squandered bureaucratic funding of the NHS in the Niagara region.

My wife sadly had a misscarriage recently and it took 6 feckin hours before she was seen by a doctor at Welland Emergency! :mad:

It is just as bad back there aswell....you will get the same stories there as you do in Canada.

If you don't like it....
 

Go back to your country.
I was born here, over 59 years ago. If you don't like the country that my forefathers, and my father and his brothers fought for in the last war, then pack up and leave.

Until our country began an intake of every immigrant and disgruntled resident of a foreign country, the system worked well. In fact, it was excellent. There was no waiting for medical services.

Canada, as seen through the eyes of a migrant population waiting to get in to my home, I call CANADA, is the glimmer of free medical care and a pension plan. Go to a doctor's office and see what goes on there. People, who are not born in this country, cued up, seat upon seat to see the doctor. And what do these people have? A simple cold that could have easily been looked after by staying at home in bed. Instead, these people 'gum up' the system and the doctor tells them exactly the same thing that I have just said here. Go home and get some rest.

The people who really need the attention aren't able to receive it because all those who see the 'free medical' treatment are in there ahead of those who do.

So, don't come here and begin complaining about the gift you received when you came here. Be grateful.

777AV8R:

Totally agree with you fella, But in this case my wife IS Canadian and it was her who was waiting a ridiculous amount of time to see a Doctor! :ugh:

Rugmuncher:
..My heart goes out to you and your wife. That is a very difficult circumstance. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Maybe if the system wasn't so overloaded, things would have been different.

Best regards

777AV8R:

I’m an immigrant and a proud Canadian citizen too. I’m also very grateful of the chance I had coming here.
As citizens of this great country we have the right to criticize whatever we want (and your father and grandfather fought in the war to keep that privilege, my respects for that).
But let me remind you something, this is still a young nation and the only real Canadians are the aboriginal people, the rest of us belongs to a different generation of immigrants
Also please don’t put all the immigrants in the same box, there is good and bad people, that applies to everybody.
Thanks

I too have immigrated to this country under Skilled Worker, and my application for permanent residency is being processed.

Canada isn't perfect, but it's certainly on par with Australia (some better, some not so much) and pisses all over the UK (24 years in Australia, 7 years in UK and 5 in Canada.....been a tax payer in all three!).

BIG BIG PLUS POINTS - Cost of living (especially in the Prairies); outdoor lifestyle; lower population density; safety; the rest of the world doesn't hate the place

NOT SO MUCH POINTS - Elections every week (seems like it); Bureaucracy; proximity to US ( :E ); Accessibility to International Current Affairs through mainstream media somewhat stifled; Can be a little on the chilly side; Skunks (both my dogs got sprayed a couple of nights ago, but that's another story)

Would I move back to Australia tomorrow? Long hard think. Would I move back to the UK? No way!

What are the better cities in Canada to live in, criteria being beer ,women and the good life !

Vancouver, end of story :D

Wein, weib und gezang !
 

Unless you're a blind "person" (!) these three ingredients can be found wherever you plonk down your behind in Canada !:ugh::ugh::ugh:

Oh I spent some time in the high north where there was a lack of all three. Carriers post maybe 4 years old but he's still a Jackass.

How to immigrate to Canada
 

I will agree with you on most points, however your better to apply as a refugee because you will get everything paid for by health and welfare canada, free housing, free education, medical care for your family and about $2000 a month . This all paid for by the generous canadian tax payers who love to take out huge mortages and wallow in credit card debt as well as pay up to 55% of their income.
These people will someday spend themselves into oblivion and hope they can retire by lofting thier overpriced condo on some unsuspecting immigrant who feels the same euphoric way after they realize they can collect welfare and still make $4000 a month,drive a mercedes,live in a big house with 4 other families and only declare poverty levels of annual income. The federal government after about half a century is finally catching on to these people. However there are so many people trying to rip off the government at one time it is impossible for the government to investigate everyone..
This is how it works in Canada, your either rich or you are poor. (probably better to be poor because if your rich your going to be a target for the Canada dept of taxation , and they really want rich people living here so they can make them poor .)

Yankee Whisky - " Tathastu " - meaning so be it in sanskrit !

Before responding to dianed, read the last line in mustang06's reply to 777AV8R from 4 years ago. It still applies.

:rolleyes:

dianed

Same here in UK too