Moving from US to Canada? Here’s What You Can Do

Planning to move to Canada from the US? Did you know that the immigration of Canada offers pathways from temporary residence to permanent residence, family-class sponsorship, or even being able to get a permanent residence on arrival to Canada? If your main goal is to get a Canadian permanent residence, there are a lot of options available that depend on your circumstance as well as your goals upon settling.

Prior to this all, you must first have to decide on whether you are heading to Canada as an economic-class immigrant or family class. You may explore more than a hundred types of Canadian economic-class immigration programs in the instance that you do not have any close family members living in Canada. Provided that these programs are under the economic class, there would be a number of ways for an applicant to be eligible for these programs; these were made for applicants who are coming to Canada to build their careers. With that, the criteria for eligibility will be based on the applicant’s educational achievements along with their work experience; in connection to this, even if an applicant’s first language is English, language proficiency will still play a role.

Here are some of the ways that could help you enter Canada:

Study Permit and Post – Graduation Work Permit

If you wanted to move to Canada by means of studying, you need to have an approved study permit that can easily be applied once you get an acceptance letter from a Canadian institution. Through this permit, you’ll be able to legally study in Canada and it also allows you to work part-time during the academic school year and a chance to work full-time during school breaks. Through studying and receiving a certificate or diploma from a Designated Learning Institution (DLI), you’ll be able to qualify for certain immigration programs and be eligible for a Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) that will allow you to work in Canada for up to three years. Through combined study and work experience, your chance to qualify and be eligible for so many immigration pathways will be high.

CUSMA

Also formerly known as NAFTA, the Canada – United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) helps U.S citizens to easily work in Canada. Through this work permit, Canadian employers could skip the lengthy Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) process. This type of work permit has four categories, namely: CUSMA Professionals, CUSMPA Intra-Company Transfers, CUSMA Traders, and CUSMA Investors.

Express Entry

This is an online application management system created to offer a shorter pathway towards permanent residency in contrast to the previous paper-based application system that Canadian immigration has. Express Entry has three sub immigration programs, namely: Canadian Experience Class (CEC), Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), and Federal Skill Trades Program (FSTP). However, due to the ongoing pandemic, most of the processing for these programs has been pushed back. For you to be able to apply for PR, you must first have an Invitation to Apply (ITA) which this system provides to all the high-scoring candidates.

Family–class Sponsorship

If you happen to have any close family living in Canada, there is a possibility for you to enter the country through sponsorship. Canadian citizens, as well as permanent residents, were allowed by Canadian immigration to sponsor their spouse, common-law partner, children, and even their parents and grandparents as long as they fit with the criteria to qualify as a sponsor and person to be sponsored.

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