Six years ago, I was one of the many appli­cants wait­ing for per­ma­nent res­i­dence in Canada. Cit­i­zen­ship and Immigration’s web­site was updated weekly, so every Mon­day I logged in to check my appli­ca­tion sta­tus. And every week, I sighted because the sta­tus invari­ably showed as “in process”.
One day, I read the magic words: “deci­sion made”.
So, immigration-wise, what changed since 2005?

This is the last and 10^th 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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.