Re:Success in Canada means moving to America
by vkou on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:48AM
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If you are young, speak English or French, and have an advanced degree or a degree and a job offer, it's not difficult for an American (or, to a slightly lesser extent, anyone else) to move to Canada.
Once you do, you have a simple path to citizenship.
The other way around is much more complicated, and requires either marriage, multi-year employer sponsorship, or waiting forever if you were born in the wrong country. (A Canadian citizen who was born in India, but moved to Canada at the age of 3 is considered to be an Indian, and will be looking forward to a decade-long waiting list for a US green card. The US weighs your country of birth more on many metrics than your country of citizenship/origin.)
Also, if I understand the system correctly, if you married a Canadian, and are moving to Canada with them, then you just... cross the border as a tourist, and once inside, start the marriage-based application process. You get a work permit in a matter of weeks, not months, and then have a very straightforward path to citizenship.
Once you do, you have a simple path to citizenship.
The other way around is much more complicated, and requires either marriage, multi-year employer sponsorship, or waiting forever if you were born in the wrong country. (A Canadian citizen who was born in India, but moved to Canada at the age of 3 is considered to be an Indian, and will be looking forward to a decade-long waiting list for a US green card. The US weighs your country of birth more on many metrics than your country of citizenship/origin.)
Also, if I understand the system correctly, if you married a Canadian, and are moving to Canada with them, then you just... cross the border as a tourist, and once inside, start the marriage-based application process. You get a work permit in a matter of weeks, not months, and then have a very straightforward path to citizenship.