Why would anyone do that? Didn’t you Calgarians get SNOW last week?!?!
Re: Thermodynamics instructors - yes please, mine sucked this year at university! I’m sure Ontario could use your services in their nuclear power plants. Engineers are actually a group that does well, when it comes to getting permission to immigrate.
Most of us just say “frites” or “patates frites”.
But if any of you Americans can speak French, those are huge bonus points on the immigration test!
It is hard to get into Canada. Back in the 90s my company TWICE offered me a job in Toronto. They were going to pay for everything and Canada refused. They said, “If a job can be done by a Canadian you need to HIRE a Canadian.”
So even with a job waiting for me, I couldn’t get in. I have no criminal record or anything. I had a job willing to pay to relocate me and the whole bit, but still Canada was very picky about who to let in. Unless your a refugee or in a profession that is sorely lacking…Well good luck.
Really? blushes
Well, Alan Alda was terrible, I never did like John Candy, and it really wasn’t very funny.
But he’s asking about immigrating, not invading…is that the trick?
and leaving your fake quarters and nickels all over the place :mad:
Hey, it killed the mosquitoes!
Calgary =/= Western Canada
/living in Vancouver, snow-free since 2008.
Canadian bigots! Racists!
who knew?
My mother (a Canadian) immigrated to the US shortly after WWII when she married my father, a US Citizen. She died 25 yrs ago, and she never became a US Citizen. I still have her original “green card”.
Are my chances of moving to Canada better than most US citizens?
notfrommensa, when were you born? you might want to check out the Citizenship & Immigration Canada web-page, as there’s a possibility you might be a Canadian, via your mother. It used to be that citizenship only passed through the father, but I think the feds made some retroactive changes a while ago to include people born to Canadian women outside of Canada.
I don’t do immigration law, and this isn’t meant as legal advice - just to say that you might want to look into it.
I know…I watched the Olympics!
And Calgary is Western…they even have cowboy hats out there! I know 'cause I saw it once.
They have some little rodeo thing, too.
Where, at Coutts/Sweetgrass? That’s only an hour away. Let me know when you’re coming through; we’ll get a beer.
After a little thrashing about on the linked page, I found this:
1947 is when Canadian citizenship was created. Before that, we were all British subjects.
Hey, you leave yours all over here. Tit for tat.
Strange that the Canadians won’t let Americans in, but the place is flooded with Chinese, Indian, Portuguese, Italian and Greek immigrants. How do they get in?
There are certain professions that are eligible for expedited entry into Canada, but considering the recession, I haven’t had much luck. Four years ago, if I applied for a planning job north of the border, I’d have a decent chance at an interview. Today, forget it, event though there’s still plenty of vacancies that go begging.
They let me in, and I’m male, originally American and pasty white. Maybe I’m a token.
This (the information quoted in Sunspace’s post above] is how I got my Canadian citizenship. In addition to the above, I had to prove that (1) I was born “in wedlock,” and (2) that my mother was a Canadian citizen at the time of my birth. Essentially, all I had to provide was a photo ID, official copies of my mother’s birth certificate and marriage certificate, my birth certificate, and a copy of her green card. Wait a few weeks, and voilà! Instant Canadian.
You are a Canadian citizen, by Canada law. Go here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
for details. That’s similar to my situation.
ETA: I see several people beat me to it.
Not likely, we don’t even know where Canada is. Those are from your people bring them back from here.