What do I have to do to improve my chances of immigrating to Canada?
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As other posters have said, the waiting time is long right now.  It might help if you are qualified to work in Canada in a profession where there is a shortage of workers.  These links should help you.  Best of luck.
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My understanding is that you may have to write some exams that validates you to practice in Canada. However, with the doctor shortage in Canada, I'm sure that they would lead you down the path of success.\n\nThis link maybe a good start.
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All the information about Immigrating to Canada can be found on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website:\nhttp://www.cic.gc.ca/\nIt is the only website you need to look at.\n\nYou can't just move to Canada and be able to work there legally. To apply for Canadian citizenship you must first become a permanent resident and after 3 years of continuous uninterrupted residence you can apply for citizenship.\n\nAs and American you have 3 choices to work in Canada:\n\n1)Apply for a NAFTA worker status (the easiest)\n Must have a bachelor degree, work experience and job offer.\n To get this status you simply go to the Canadian border\n with your proof of qualifications and job offer and you \n get status on the spot. You must renew it once a year.\n2) Work visa. \n  Apply at the Canadian Embassy with your job offer. \n3) Apply for permanent residency:\n  Take this test to see if you qualify:\n   http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/assess/index.html\n\nOnly option 3 provides a path to citizenship. The first 2 (no matter how long time you spend in Canada) won't allow you to apply for citizenship.
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you may become a canadian citizen
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I think you need to go to the Canadian Embassy and get legal to go there. Then just pack up and move.
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For Canada Immigration go to www.cic.ga.ca\nGood luck and I hope this gives you the answers you need.\ncheers
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Apply to the immigration office.
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if you go to www.cic.gc.ca\nclick preferred language\non the left margin you should see choose canada to: immigrate\nclick and it should bring up a list of different ways to immigrate\n\n...i'm not sure of your situation, but if you add more info i'll look more for you\n\ni've been all around this website so i know how to find things, haha
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There is the three legal ways to immigrate to Canada - independent immigration, investing and family sponsorship. The first one based on importance of your profession for the Canadian government, the second one required a huge investment ($400,000) into Canadian economy for 3 years and the last one probably the most suitable for you - sponsorship by family member.\nThere is a few more - if your current situation is life or freedom threaten (e.g war or religion persecution) you can apply for a refuge status or you can get married to Canadian citizen, which probably is not an option since you want to bring your boyfriend :) For more information visit a  official Canadian  website of citizenship and immigration http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.html
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Aim for America. Canadians WILL push you back to starting your undergraduate years all over again. Consider the following:\n\n\n \n\n\n      8. Discriminatory and Dishonest Immigration System.\n      Immigration to Canada is based on a point system, obtained with your education, qualifications and job experience. Points are good enough for immigration, but in Canada, they are not good enough to get a job in your field. Amazing, how the credentials that qualify you to come to Canada are the same credentials that don't qualify you for your profession in Canada. The reason is, Canada only wants immigrants to do the labor jobs - pizza delivery, driving taxis, factory work etc.\n\n      7. Out Of Control Cost Of Living.\n      From rent, to utility bills, to shopping, to phone, internet and cable bills, to gas, to car insurance, to eating out, to basically anything you have to pay for or buy, the cost of living in Canada has become astronomical. Recent immigrants are astonished as to how expensive everything is. It is estimated that compared to most countries around the world, the cost of living in Canada is on average five times greater.\n\n      6. Health Care Crisis.\n      Practicing physicians in Canada are in a shortage, 1 in 4 Canadians cannot get a family doctor. Canadian doctors are leaving to move permanently to the United States. Statistics Canada and the Canadian Medical Association both have identified that for every 1 American doctor that moves to Canada, 19 (nineteen) Canadian doctors move to the United States! Doctors in Canada are overworked and underpaid, and there is a cap on their salaries.\n\n      5. Very High Taxes.\n      Yes, you have the GST, the PST, totaling 15%, on practically everything you purchase and many other taxes taken out of our weekly paycheck. You have to pay a whopping amount to the government, out of your hard earned salary, so that the government can turn around and give it to beer drinking, hockey watching welfare bums. Fair? It does not matter, it's Canada.\n\n      4. Money Hungry Government.\n      Canadian Embassies around the world lie to foreigners, painting this picture that Canada is Utopia, because they want them to come to Canada. Why? Because foreigners bring money! So after being deceived, these foreigners come. They must bring with them at least $10,000. Canada has an immigration quota of 250,000 per year. So please do the math, 250,000 multiplied by $10,000 each equals a whopping 2.5 Billion dollars that Canada gains from immigrants every year.\n\n      3. No Culture.\n      Unlike almost every other country in the world, Canada has no culture. Actually American culture is what dominates Canada. When was the last time you had some 'Canadian' food? There are no Canadian traditions and there is no national identity. What does it even mean to call yourself a 'Canadian'. . .nothing really. People living in Canada, still identify themselves with the country they 'originally' came from.\n\n      2. Worst Weather.\n      Yes, Canada has the worst weather conditions of any country in the world. Freezing cold temperatures, snow, ice, hail, winds, storms etc. From the Prairie provinces to the Maritimes, from the Territories to southern Ontario, the weather is so horrific and disgusting that many Canadians leave Canada simply because of this reason alone.\n\n      1. No Jobs.\n      Yes, coast to coast, there are no jobs. Immigrants are highly qualified (MD's, PhD's, Lawyers, Engineers etc.) but they are driving taxi cabs, delivering pizza's or working in factories. Even people with bachelors degrees from Canadian Universities cannot find jobs after graduation. This is the tragedy associated with immigration to Canada. I feel sorry for those immigrants who are stuck in Canada for the rest of their lives. It is indeed a very sad and hopeless future.\n\n       \n      written by\n      Asad Raza, M.D.\n      www.NotCanada.com\n\n\n      This li
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I would say that anyone considering immigrating to another country should consult an attorney that is familiar with the immigration laws in that country. That way they will know exactly what needs to be done and prevents a lot of wasted time running around trying to figure things out. I've seen ads for several Canadian attorneys that specialize in this area.
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your child is a candian citizen by birth if he/she has a canadian birth certificate. Once your child turns 18, he/she can sponsor you for family based permanent residency. Until then you can't immigrate, at least not based on family.\nYou can explore other options such as skilled worker immigration or simply a work permit if you can find a job\n\ngood luck
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It really depends on what country you are going to, sad but true, say if it is Canada you can go to canada.gc.ca  and find all the info that you need. Honesty is the best policy. I came to Canada from the USA, and I had no troubles, I'm still here and happily married and have filed for papers for landed immig status , You want to make sure that when you do proceed with anything that you answer all info properly and correct, if not that can cause you many problems, and just for your info it can be time consuming and you just need to remain positive. Just get all the information you can, off the net, public library can be helpful, your own offices for passports and visa's and such, You need to find out if there are any stipulations for the country you are going to, such as how much money you need to have per day and so on. I hope this makes since, Good luck to you ...
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Canadian Immigration requires a little research.  Seems our neighbors to the North are a little picky about who they let in ;-)  \n\nThere is a website describing the process of immigrating to Canada here:  http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.html  \n\nnote that this site is in English.  If you read, write, and speak French it could help you in your quest to immigrate to Canada.
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(1) Make the process of immigrating legally more secure.  As it is now, for example, the different offices within the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services do not have a good means of communicating with one another.  Whenever I moved, I had to send letters to the different offices processing different aspects of my immigration process, letting them know of my change of address.  This is clearly a problem.  If the BCIS is supposed to monitor the comings and goings of immigrants before granting the permanent residency (and this is something that most Americans would agree should happen, given the heightened concerns about national security in recent times), then the BCIS should have some sort of computerized information system that allows it to share information among its different offices.  As a future citizen, it does not make me feel safe in the least bit that the BCIS relies on applicants to send letters to different offices to let them know of their whereabouts, simply because they do not have the technology to share that information.  By stressing the weaknesses--on matters of national security--of immigration procedure, we can make sure that Congress takes a hard look at the other inefficiencies of the system.\n\n(2) Make the immigration procedure more humane: After I got married to an American citizen, I applied for permanent residence.  Had I known what I was going to be subjected to, I probably would have simply extended my F-1 student visa (I came to study a PhD).  Instead, I got treated like a pseudo-criminal for two and a half years: I had to apply for 'advanced parole' (with five months in advance) in order to visit ailing relatives back home.  Obviously, this didn't work out all that well, since I had to anticipate when my relatives would have ailments in order to visit them.  I also had to renounce three different invitations to conferences in Europe that would have bolstered my curriculum vitae extraordinarily, simply because the invitations came within three months of the events, and I didn't have the time to apply for said 'advanced parole.'\n\n(3) We can vote for the party that shows less contempt for our common background.  I may have more reasons to resent illegal immigration than many Americans (since I actually had to go through a painful and humilliating process to become a legal permanent resident), but I do not resent them at all, and this is largely the case because I consider myself incredibly fortunate to have had the educational and economic opportunities to get to where I am, and I know how difficult it is for ordinary hard-working, low-wage people to get here legally (if you ask me, it is nearly impossible).  I also detect a remarkable degree of hypocrisy on the part of the nativists, whose ancestors at some point came to the US, and they did so most likely without an education, without money, the beneficiaries of a laxer immigration policy that by and large didn't turn away people because of their social class (think of Ellis island).  So by acquiring the American citizenship, we can help tone down the rhetoric, hopefully bring back the US to a more open system of legal immigration, all the while joining efforts with those who would like to secure the American southern border.\n\n(4) We can also tone down our own rhetoric, where it is excessive and ludicrous.  Americans have a right to want to protect their middle and lower classes from the effects of globalization, and we have to understand and embrace this.  While illegal immigration is not the cause of the economic woes of the lower and middle classes here, it is true nonetheless that illegal immigrants bring down wages on average.  (One may argue that they also offer more competition to low-wage American workers, and that competition is indeed a useful remedy to economic stagnation, but this argument only goes so far.)  So let us be responsible, and let us not see bigotry in every corner of American polit
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when u get accepted by a canadian school, the school will help u get a visa by providing necessary documents. there will be some stuff though to do in your end, like making sure u have enough finances, etc
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Check these sites out:\n\nwww.canadaimmigration.com\nwww.greencardlottery.com