How can I move to Canada?

[Bob Juch]

"How can I move to Canada?" had a significant spike in the search engines last night and the Canadian government website was overloaded.

[Duh Mass]

Just keep driving up.

[BackInTex]

Just keep driving up.

Don't tell the people in Detroit.

[Spock]

"How can I move to Canada?" had a significant spike in the search engines last night and the Canadian government website was overloaded.

#1 Tip--- "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."

#2 Tip---"Remember, it is illegal to smuggle your pot across the border-so you better smoke it before you get there."

[Spock]

"How can I move to Canada?" had a significant spike in the search engines last night and the Canadian government website was overloaded.

Just what Canada needs. A mass influx of 24 YO unemployed Womens' Studies majors who think the world owes them a living. The NDP would be happy to get them though.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Serious response -- it ain't easy; I looked into it 20 years ago and, even with a Canadian wife, it was a bit of a bear. Nothing that couldn't have been overcome (costs for fees, etc., were pretty much the same either way -- moving me to Canada, or Judy and Josh down here), except for one problem: unlike the States, Canada won't give you a work permit because you're the spouse of a Canadian citizen. So, look to be out of work for two years while the papers go through.

And, without the "anchor spouse," I'm not sure how easy it would be. As with most countries, you have to show you can afford to be there (translation: a) you won't be a welfare case, and b) if you got lots of money, come on up!)

BTW, this was one thing that came up when the Gulf War started in the early part of this century. If the draft somehow got reinstituted, would a bunch of Yanks go up north like they did in the Vietnam days? The short answer was -- they might, but they'd get sent back mighty fast, because Immigration Canada was a lot tougher that it was in the 1960s, where folks could kind of drift into the country and blend in.

[BackInTex]

Serious response -- it ain't easy; I looked into it 20 years ago and, even with a Canadian wife, it was a bit of a bear. Nothing that couldn't have been overcome (costs for fees, etc., were pretty much the same either way -- moving me to Canada, or Judy and Josh down here), except for one problem: unlike the States, Canada won't give you a work permit because you're the spouse of a Canadian citizen. So, look to be out of work for two years while the papers go through.

And, without the "anchor spouse," I'm not sure how easy it would be. As with most countries, you have to show you can afford to be there (translation: a) you won't be a welfare case, and b) if you got lots of money, come on up!)

BTW, this was one thing that came up when the Gulf War started in the early part of this century. If the draft somehow got reinstituted, would a bunch of Yanks go up north like they did in the Vietnam days? The short answer was -- they might, but they'd get sent back mighty fast, because Immigration Canada was a lot tougher that it was in the 1960s, where folks could kind of drift into the country and blend in.

And yet, somehow the Republicans and their stance on immigration are evil.

[Bob78164]

Serious response -- it ain't easy; I looked into it 20 years ago and, even with a Canadian wife, it was a bit of a bear. Nothing that couldn't have been overcome (costs for fees, etc., were pretty much the same either way -- moving me to Canada, or Judy and Josh down here), except for one problem: unlike the States, Canada won't give you a work permit because you're the spouse of a Canadian citizen. So, look to be out of work for two years while the papers go through.

And, without the "anchor spouse," I'm not sure how easy it would be. As with most countries, you have to show you can afford to be there (translation: a) you won't be a welfare case, and b) if you got lots of money, come on up!)

BTW, this was one thing that came up when the Gulf War started in the early part of this century. If the draft somehow got reinstituted, would a bunch of Yanks go up north like they did in the Vietnam days? The short answer was -- they might, but they'd get sent back mighty fast, because Immigration Canada was a lot tougher that it was in the 1960s, where folks could kind of drift into the country and blend in.

And yet, somehow the Republicans and their stance on immigration are evil.

The "mighty fast" part is important. It's one thing to deport people after a few months or a year. It's very different to wait decades. Particularly when the deportee has been here since he was one year old, speaks no language but English (with an American accent), and has no connections whatsoever to his or her country of citizenship.

Particularly when your quality of life depends on an underground economy powered by the undocumented workers you'd like to deport. --Bob

[BackInTex]

The "mighty fast" part is important. It's one thing to deport people after a few months or a year. It's very different to wait decades. Particularly when the deportee has been here since he was one year old, speaks no language but English (with an American accent), and has no connections whatsoever to his or her country of citizenship.

Particularly when your quality of life depends on an underground economy powered by the undocumented workers you'd like to deport. --Bob

I'm talking about just ENFORCING THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS as they are. Our boarder is WIDE OPEN. Repeat, WIDE OPEN. I'm not talking about sending home everyone already here. But I'm not talking about amnesty either. Right now, just CLOSE THE BORDER. Your guy won't even do that!

[Bob78164]

The "mighty fast" part is important. It's one thing to deport people after a few months or a year. It's very different to wait decades. Particularly when the deportee has been here since he was one year old, speaks no language but English (with an American accent), and has no connections whatsoever to his or her country of citizenship.

Particularly when your quality of life depends on an underground economy powered by the undocumented workers you'd like to deport. --Bob

I'm talking about just ENFORCING THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS as they are. Our boarder is WIDE OPEN. Repeat, WIDE OPEN. I'm not talking about sending home everyone already here. But I'm not talking about amnesty either. Right now, just CLOSE THE BORDER. Your guy won't even do that!

I assume you're talking about the Mexican border. Are you aware that the population of undocumented Mexican immigrants has steadily declined throughout the Obama Administration?



And isn't the goal of an immigration policy to reduce the number of non-citizens present without our permission? So by that measure, President Obama has been quite effective. --Bob

[BackInTex]

And isn't the goal of an immigration policy to reduce the number of non-citizens present without our permission? So by that measure, President Obama has been quite effective. --Bob

If no change is effective, yes. My standards for the word "effective" is higher than that.

[earendel]

Cape Breton is inviting people to move there if Trump wins.

http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.s ... bsite.html

[Bob Juch]

I'm not going to Canada if Trump wins. I couldn't take the cold. I might go to Belize.