Articles in Immigration
Five Reasons Why I Live In Canada
Canada welcomes about 250,000 new immigrants a year. I doubt all of them eventually stay and make Canada their permanent home. Life isn’t always easy at first and immigrating is much more than getting a residence permit. After the honeymoon period, the hugeness of the task ahead can be scary: learning to live in a new language, adapting to new traditions, social norms and visions, recreating a network of friends… I really don’t blame those who go back home.
(No) Bitching Allowed
How much can you complain about your host country after you immigrate?
Some wish they hadn’t immigrated to Canada and criticize everything and others praise everything but now hate their home country. The truth must be somewhere in between.
Challenge Your Beliefs
Some of my core values were challenged at one point or another after I moved to Canada. I had to reconsider what I had been taught as a French. What I had blindly believed in for all the years I spent in France. What had been passed on to me by my parents and by the education system.
Even the slightest things.
Four Years, Already...
Exactly four years ago, I got up very early. Feng and I got in the car still half asleep. It was a big day for me: I was crossing the border to the U.S.A only to come back to Canada a few minutes later, to validate my permanent resident visa and to become a landed immigrant.
My Brand New Canadian Passport!
Two weeks ago, I completed what I hope is my last paperworks for a while. But it was worth it: today, I picked my Canadian passport up!
Applying for a Canadian passport is not that easy though: references, guarantors… what is that??
Canada's Visa War
The new is everywhere in the immigration community: as of July 13th 2009, Canada imposed a visa on Mexico and Czech Republic nationals visiting the country.
The move was unilateral and very sudden. It was also somewhat unexpected and it is certainly huge troubles for the thousands of tourists that are now forced to apply for a visitor visa.
I Belong Here... And There Too
This got me thinking. I was born in France, of French parents, so I am French. No-brainer here. But because I left the country right after graduating from high school, little by little, I lost my French identity. Obviously, I adapted to Canada — this was bound to happen. But I also lost it in a very practical way.
Useful Links For Immigration (10/10)
This is the last and 10th post of the How To…Immigrate To Canada series. I’d like to give you a list of useful links about immigrating to Canada: official websites, personal blogs, forums etc.























