Citizenship Ceremony In Ottawa

As of this morn­ing, 12:30…I am Canadian!

We arrived at the Sci­ences and Tech­nol­ogy museum around 11:00 am. It didn’t start very well: it was rain­ing and there had been a power out­age and we queued in the dark. Have you ever tried to sign a bunch of papers with the help of a flash­light? Not my best sig­na­ture, I’d bet.

I made It

I knew this enve­lope, with the lit­tle Cana­dian flag on it: it had brought me good news and bad news over the last five years. I was usu­ally in a hurry to ripe it open, to read the let­ter inside. But this time, I paused.

10 Common Immigration Questions (8/10)

Here are the answers to the ten most com­mon immi­gra­tion questions.

Arriving In Canada With The Permanent Residence (7/10)

So, you received the great news: “deci­sion made”, you have just obtained the per­ma­nent res­i­dence in Canada! What’s next now?

Citizenship Exam Day In Ottawa

So here I was, this morn­ing, try­ing to remem­ber which province joined the Con­fed­er­a­tion last (in case you want to know, it’s New­found­land in 1949).

How Long Does The Immigration Process Take? (6/10)

Immigration’s appli­cants main con­cern is often on how long the whole process takes. Unfor­tu­nately, there is no rule and no one can know for sure. How­ever, there are some tricks to make sure your appli­ca­tion is processed as fast as it can be!

How Much Does Immigrating Really Cost? (5/10)

Sure, you though of the pro­cess­ing fees. But did you real­ize there were also a lot of fees asso­ci­ated with immi­grat­ing to Canada? In this post, I’m going to try to sum up how much do you really need to paid to immi­grate to Canada.

If You Immigrate To Quebec (4/10)

In the last two arti­cles, I reviewed the two most com­mon ways to immi­grate to Canada: through the skilled worker cat­e­gory, and through the spon­sor­ship cat­e­gory. But what if you want to set­tle in Que­bec? Things are a lit­tle bit different.