Guillermo Ziegler came with his family to Canada in 2005, looking for a better life as he saw Argentina, his home country, plunging into an economic and social crisis. He currently lives in Ottawa...
How to immigrate to Canada, how to apply for Canadian citizenship, and how to tackle the challenges newcomers face.
Guillermo Ziegler came with his family to Canada in 2005, looking for a better life as he saw Argentina, his home country, plunging into an economic and social crisis. He currently lives in Ottawa...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
After you become a landed immigrant, you must apply for three very important pieces of IDs: a permanent resident card, a SIN card and a health card.
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...
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).
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...
If you are in a serious relationship with a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, you may be eligible to apply for permanent residence in the sponsorship category.
I used to spend a lot of time in various immigration forums, and the same questions would always pop up.
How did I get into this conversation, already ? Oh yeah, I'm on the #151 going downtown, and I took the last free sit, by a middle aged woman who was obviously bored and started up the conversation...