Any of you planning to immigrate back to Canada someday?

[Melyssa 0]

When I retire and the kid (maybe kids) are out of the house, I hope to spend the summers at the lake in Canada and the winters somewhere down south in the US. Maybe we will official move to Canada to avoid being old timers with a huge US health insurance premiums. But then again who knows what state of affairs the Canadian healthcare system will be in or if there will even be such a thing by then.

Hmm good point!

Your little one is so adorable!

Im the USC at some point in the future I'd like to get my Canadian Citizenship, from my trip up to get Nancy I really liked it up there near Toronto. Nancy says we should live in Vancouver. What is Vancouver like? Where do you all suggest?

Humbly,

Ramos

I've never been to Vancouver except in the airport but I know it is absolutely beautiful. Friends of mine who have been there or lived there, loved it. Except the crime rate is apparently higher than say Ottawa and it rains a lot. But it's definitely a lot warmer than eastern Canada from what I understand!

[TennCAN 1]

When I retire and the kid (maybe kids) are out of the house, I hope to spend the summers at the lake in Canada and the winters somewhere down south in the US. Maybe we will official move to Canada to avoid being old timers with a huge US health insurance premiums. But then again who knows what state of affairs the Canadian healthcare system will be in or if there will even be such a thing by then.

Hmm good point!

Your little one is so adorable!

Im the USC at some point in the future I'd like to get my Canadian Citizenship, from my trip up to get Nancy I really liked it up there near Toronto. Nancy says we should live in Vancouver. What is Vancouver like? Where do you all suggest?

Humbly,

Ramos

I've never been to Vancouver except in the airport but I know it is absolutely beautiful. Friends of mine who have been there or lived there, loved it. Except the crime rate is apparently higher than say Ottawa and it rains a lot. But it's definitely a lot warmer than eastern Canada from what I understand!

Perhaps someday we will go to PEI for summer holidays however the winters will not be missed. I called my kids yesterday who said they were in the middle of a snow storm (New Brunswick) and the snow was already up to my 12 yr old daughters waist. Not much snow is Tennessee.......

[Cantwait2gethome 0]

I know from my personal experience (I am the US citizen) immigrating to Canada was very very easy. Granted, my husband remained in Canada and I returned to the US while we filed my packet. The longest part for us was gathering the important documents(all in all my fingerprints from the FBI took the longest to get). From the date that my husband sent in the first packet to the day I arrived in Canada as a permanent resident took a little under 3 months. To me, that was not to horrible, considering I was still able to come to Canada and visit my husband while my immigration packet was being processed. I would have to say the big difference in immigration processes would be:

1)Canada liked to see proof of our relationship (pictures, emails, phone bills, travel proof -- border stamps, airline ticket stubs, joint lease, cards to one/or both of us,etc) where US wanted just the basic forms (wedding certficate). Now I am not sure if that kind of proof is needed for K-1 because we filed IR-1.

2)While packet is pending, Canada let me enter with no hassles, whereas my husband could not enter while the immigration packet was in process.

3)For Canada immigration, we never had to have a single interview of any sort, for the US, we had 2 interviews.

4)My Canadian immigration packet weighed a fair amount ( i had 2 accordion folders filled with paperwork), US immigration packet fit into one folder, hehe.

If anyone has any questions, I will be more than happy to help where I can. Just a note , I did file OUT of Canada packet not INSIDE Canada packet. I do know from the board I was on at the time, things are a bit different depending on which route you do file for Canadian Immigration (ei time frames, proof of relation, etc.)

Now....for Vancouver! My husband was born and raised in British Columbia, so for him, it was like a child in a candy store when he took me back home! I absolutely loved B.C. I did a lot of first's while I was there. First airplane flight, first time to ride a skytrain,seabus,ferry,electric bus(although not toooo much different from a regular bus). We went in the beginning of April, and the weather was perfect. We were there for 3 weeks, and it only rained 2 days outta the whole stretch, got very lucky My favorite time was going to the island. We took a drive up into the mountains, and boy was is it beautiful. I remember standing and just looking up and seeing snow on the trees at the very very top and the looking at the trees right in front of me with no snow. My husband took me to several different waterfalls, the hotsprings (I actually sat in a hotspring pool. Talk about relaxation at its finest!) We also went to the pacific ocean. All in all, I would have loved the chance to live there, but "other" things prevented our decision to move there. If anyone gets the chance to go and visit, I would highly suggest it. We only did about 1/3 of the things on my husbands list of places to go/and see. LOL.

[bradcanuck 1]

The Island is gorgeous.

[ramos96 1]

Awesome everyone, I need to plan a trip to Vancouver then to check it out. If you all could provide some places that I definitely should visit, please.

Currently, I am hoping to drive out to the Toronto area with Nancy, she needs to get a new passport as it is expiring. Mmmm cold weather and snow, should be a fun drive!!

Ramos

[trailmix 77]

Awesome everyone, I need to plan a trip to Vancouver then to check it out. If you all could provide some places that I definitely should visit, please.

Currently, I am hoping to drive out to the Toronto area with Nancy, she needs to get a new passport as it is expiring. Mmmm cold weather and snow, should be a fun drive!!

Ramos

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[Krikit 1,164]

Awesome everyone, I need to plan a trip to Vancouver then to check it out. If you all could provide some places that I definitely should visit, please.

Currently, I am hoping to drive out to the Toronto area with Nancy, she needs to get a new passport as it is expiring. Mmmm cold weather and snow, should be a fun drive!!

Ramos

thread killer

[Emancipation 2]

The Island is gorgeous.

I think the CBC should do a TV show called "Island Wars".. I think PEI & NFLD can give Victoria Island a run for her money

[trailmix 77]

The Island is gorgeous.

I think the CBC should do a TV show called "Island Wars".. I think PEI & NFLD can give Victoria Island a run for her money

I think you are right. I have never been that far east, however from what I have seen those two spots are beautiful, it's like a country secret!

I wish someone had kept Calgary a secret