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spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I am pretty sure that Chinese immigrants, for example, have different standards to immigration to Canada, than would-be immigrants from the US. Shocked

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

No. The standards are the same.

VanKen · Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 139 Location: Calgary, AB Canada

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

koshechka · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: working in chile

naturegirl,
i had no trouble with the immigration services here in santiago de chile. i am working at a university and my husband has a contract where he works so that's not a problem. i do think however that finding a decent job in latin america is a lot easier for us than it would be in canada where everyone speaks english and has qualifications.
so, are there points according to your job or not, i remember someone saying that english teachers are not needed, how about translators and so on?
thanks,
koshechka

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

Not just my mum, all of us are from the UK.

My father got a job offer while in the UK, moved to Canada and got all set up, then my mother and the kids (my brother my sister was on the way, and I) followed shortly after.

It took me a long time to getting around to getting citizenship. Actually getting it took less than a year. At the time when we arrived, British people could actually get Canadian citizenship upon entry into the country as permanent residents (a perk of being British because of the Queen in Canada and all that). My family didn't know this and my parents weren't all that interested in getting citizenship (we went to Canada because it was close to the UK - closer than Australia, the other country my father could have gone to with his company- and they always figured that we would likely go back). When I turned 18, I stopped being able to get citizenship through my parents, and I wasn't overly concerned with it either. I got it a couple of years before I left Canada because I knew that jobs for ESL teachers were few and far between and because I wanted to teach English language, I figured the chance of me leaving the country was pretty high. If you leave the country for six months plus a day as a landed immigrant in Canada you cannot go back. That's not a situation I would want to put myself in.

The law changed (in 1982 as part of the Constitution Act- the last constitutional enactment for Canada to be made by the Parliament of the United Kingdom) and now every single country (including the UK, although the Queen is still the official Head of State and Sovereign) is treated exactly the same.