I have a US undergrad degree with 5 years of experience in IT.  After living here for 8 years I still don’t have green card and with the current economy, it does not look like I’ll get one soon.  I’ve applied for Canada PR and would like some info about Canada.  How is it different from US and most important, how difficult it is to get job on my field?  If anyone has any experience they would like to share than it will be good help for me.

Thanks.

 

No, I've just applied.

Jonny

Can you please what is process and what are the documents do we need to submit initially?? I just want to know what you did. please dont give that canadian immigration link

thanks

daka

onny

Can you please tell what is process and what are the documents do we need to submit initially?? I just want to know what you did. please dont give that canadian immigration link

thanks

daka

Since I've been working on H1, I applied through the new Albert AINP program.  If you have one year US work experience and are on H1 you qualify. 

Can anybody living around Toronto share their experience?

Hey Jonny

did you have to get the police clearance from Nepal / and or FBI clearance from US to apply to Alberta AINP program?

Jonny,

Hi,
Does anybody know if we need to submit state police certificates along with FBI and back from Nepal? I got the AINP approval, am  in the process of applying for PR. I have lived in states for 8 years in 10 different state.I am not sure how will I get certificates from all the states.

Any information about this would highly be appreciated.

Thanks Haribansa for sharing your experience. 

Hello All,

For New Albert AINP program, from the best of my knowledge, there are only 5 forms that need to be filled (including AINP 009) and send it to Albert Canada.

I don't see any other requirements such as police certificates, FBI or from Nepal/Native country) or ay application fees.

Can someone share there experience, what are the 'upfront fees' for this application? or any other documents that need to be in consideration?

Thanks,

Once you get approve from Alberta province, they(Alberta ainp) will sent your document to Canada immigration and there you'll need to submit all the documents like FBI clearance, photo, fee etc.  Remember you get PR from Canada gov not Alberta province.  Upfront fee are the same as point or other system. 

Palpali Kancha,

FBI Police Clearance does all the work. Get the papers from Office Depo or local police station  for finger print and send it to FBI. You don't have to get 10 different police report from each state. Actually it is very simple process and if you read the instructions, it explains everything in detail.

Goodluck!

--HB

 

 

Once you apply through Alberta program, how long do you have to live there? Is there a year limitations?

 

"Palpali Kancha,

FBI Police Clearance does all the work. Get the papers from Office Depo or local police station  for finger print and send it to FBI. You don't have to get 10 different police report from each state. Actually it is very simple process and if you read the instructions, it explains everything in detail.

Goodluck!

--HB"

You will require to submit state clearance certificate. This is a new rule recently introduced. New applicant applying from USA must submit State clearance certificate from all the states where he/she had resided for more than 6 months since his/her 18th birthday.

 

You don't have too. I didn't submit it,  I got the approval. I was also confused about it, in the middle when I had already submitted the documents so I  wrote the message to get peoples views.  Later I decided not to send any  state certificate.

Did you visit this site ?

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/north-america/united-states.asp

If you submitted after Feb 2009 then you will require. You will be getting state PCC request from CIC very soon. Good Luck.

Believe me you don't require it. Just to confirm, you can email

Alberta Provincial Nominee Program

immigration.info@gov.ab.ca  and find out about it.

guys for the AINP you don't need anything just the AINP form and the copy of the filled CIC forms once you have the AINP approved then you need all the forms plus the application fees for the PR. AINP is nothing but the province of Alberta recommending that you qualify for the nomination of migrating to Canada.

Before it was a points system most of the folks did not qualify under the point system so they came up with this new form of program to attract more immigrants..

It is good to have the backup but I am pretty sure that once you get nominated and apply your CIC the whole process will take a year and you can delay it by another year just to make sure you are ready for migrating.

Also if you work for a canadian company, you can be in any part of the world and meet their requirement for renewal which is you must have stayed in Canada for at least 3 yrs out of 5. SO if there are consultancies in Canada you can do C2C and work here in the US. My friends stay in Canda but come to work in Detroit so they are maintaining their status that way also. Just another option.

 

Again Good luck to all who have applied.

Is everyone leaving USA cuz we can't fond a way to live here permanently?if you had a choice, woud you stay?is Canada more tolerant and welcoming to assimilate foreigners?