Immigrate to Canada

Mabbit said:
Not sure where to post this thread. Sorry if my English isn't that great.

I have been researching for weeks about Canada's culture, economy, immigrate policy, and etc.

I really, really, want to live in Canada more than living in US.

But the problem is...

The Canada Immigration Act requires this country to reject applications for immigration from persons with any “disease, disorder, disability or other health impairment” which may cause them to be “a danger to public health or public safety” or which may reasonably be expected to place “excessive demands on health or social services.”

http://www.cad.ca/immigration_&_medical_admissibility.php

Right now, I'm not qualify to immigrate to Canada yet. All I need to do is to improve skills in English and working experiences. I'll be ready within 5 to 10 years.

Is it possible that within 5 to 10 years that Canada will allow deaf like me to become Canadian?

Do you know anyone who is deaf and moved to Canada and obtained Canada citizenship? (not including marry someone from Canada)
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Do you have any education? like college degree?

You may find an employer to sponsor you and get visa for relocate to Canada.
 
I'm sorry for late responds. Last week was... hell for me.

Bebonang said:
I was reading the article from the Canadian Association of the Deaf. The article is discriminated against deaf and disabled people for coming to Canada. The immigration is totally against anyone who is disabled or deaf because they think we have serious disease. Being deaf is not a disease and also if you happen to have other disability issues but not life threatening to your and our health.

The Immigration Act is wrong. I came to Canada because of my ancestors and my mother was born in Ontario, Canada. The Immigration office knew I am telling them the truth about my ancestors and they don't seem to know that I am a threat to them because of my deafness. So I had to fill out the form with the help of my future husband at the time almost 18 years ago. I became a Permanent resident, but not Canadian Citizen which mean I could not vote but can have all the privilege of getting my rights in Canada. This permanent residence last every 5 years. So I keep refilling my form with permanent residence every 5 years now. I could not afford much for Canadian Citizen.

My husband who is now deceased (one year ago) had wanted me to become Canadian citizen but there are times it is the money that I have to find ways to pay for me to become a Canadian citizen. If you have a fund like Social Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) or looking for employment in Canada. If you want to work or go to college, then you might have to fill out Visa.

All these take paperwork to fill out all the forms that you have to do in order to come to Canada. The Immigration Act should not discriminated you for entering into Canada.


After my husband passed away last year, I have decide to move back to USA to be with family members, my son and his family (I have 5 grandchildren (4 girls and 1 boy)) and my sister and her children (2 nieces and 1 nephew). I am an old woman now at the age of 67 going to be 68 years old in the Fall. My time is short and I miss my family. They do not want to come up here as it is cold up here. LOL Me, no big deal. I am used to living out in the bush, even when I was living in Minnesota in the bush. Now with my husband gone, I really want to be with family only. So I will be traveling by car all the way to state of Washington (Northwest Coast) to see my son and his family. After about 1 or 2 weeks, then I will drive all the way to New Mexico which is between Texas and Arizona. I will be staying close by to my sister's house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I love families. Very important. Life is precious so I got to thinking it is time to spend time with them before I goes away in dignity and peace plus happiness too. I miss my husband very much and very sad he had to go into death. He had been sick for a very long time because he was an alcoholic and the liver was damaged with toxic that make him go out of contact with the reality. Life was hard for him. Sorry for all the long rant.

I do hope you can come to Canada if you can fill out those forms for yourself, unless you are planning on having someone to come with you to live in Canada. Good luck. :)
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Yes I'm aware that deaf can immigrate to Canada but my goal is to obtain Canada citizenship. Did you get Canada citizenship, yet? If not, that's my point.

Since you used to live or still live in Canada, I have a question for you. If your husband was hearing then is it possible to get "sponsor for Canada citizenship via marriage?"

NaidaUP said:
I don't think any country should accept anyone who will cost them money. The UK is a very bad example with what the call Health Tourism. (Altho the US maybe different as you don't get free health care)

My friend moved to Canada start of 2012 whiles pregnant. As part of her visa requirement, she had to pay for things when she went in to labour, she even had to pay for her hospital gown. She hasn't used the health care system since giving birth, apart from her child check ups, who was born in Canada.
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I'm not going to Canada for Health Care. I'm going there for suitable lifestyle. That's all.

~SG~ said:
Bebonang, Just wondering as you mentioned your mother was born in Canada... Couldn't you apply Canadian Citizenship by Descent? As your mother is a Canadian Citizen.
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I was thinking same thing.

Foxrac said:
If you want good healthcare and easily to obtain an insurance, move to Hawaii.

Hawaii required all employers to offer health insurance to employees.

But... the cost of living is very high.
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I don't want to be part of USA at all.

eternity said:
Just a bit correct you. Why don't you talk with those people about how to get the citizenship in Canada? They should be able to provide you an interpreter and ask them to see if they are able to waive your "hearing loss."
My Canada family moved here in Detroit so I was born and raised in Detroit. When the U.S. president was reelected for the second term, I wanted to move out of this country before it would get worse.
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I have contact them before and they just laughed at me via video phone because I'm deaf and cannot able to take citizenship test due to unable to speak or talk.

Foxrac said:
Do you have any education? like college degree?

You may find an employer to sponsor you and get visa for relocate to Canada.
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yes I have two college degrees as I already mentioned on first post, I think.

Sure I can go work there but I cant obtain Canada citizenship.
 
Royale said:
The Immigration Act in Canada had been toughed and tightened recently. The Immigration Act on CAD website is just their position paper.

Our health care system is NOT 100 percent free. There are some services and materials that you have to pay in order to obtain them.

Our health care system is not THAT GREAT. If I want to decide which I choose for any treatments - US or Canadian health care systems, I choose the U.S. easily. We got a very very long waiting list for cancer, heart, and life-threatening operations.
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OMG FINALLY someone who agrees! As someone who uses the health care system for certain specialists for my health issues I HATE our health "care" it's totally and utterly ridiculous. Wait times just to get in the ER are ridiculous and misdiagnoses happens quite often..If I had the chance to move back to the states I would in a heartbeat...I'd rather pay for healthcare and get what I pay for than for the govt to heavily tax us and get substandard health care.
 
~SG~ said:
Bebonang, Just wondering as you mentioned your mother was born in Canada... Couldn't you apply Canadian Citizenship by Descent? As your mother is a Canadian Citizen.
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My mother passed away 7 years ago (2006). The immigration told me not to think about mother's Canadian Citizen, just solely only on me. She said that was separate between my mother and myself. So I had to fill out the paperwork to have permanent residence. My husband was my boyfriend at the time years ago when I came to Canada and he wanted to be my sponsor so that I can stay in Canada. After we got married in 1997, the immigration told us that it had nothing do with being married in order to have Canadian Citizen. We were kind of upset about that. Anyway, I got my permanent resident card and health card and everything I need in order for me to stay in Canada. Then my husband was sick with bad liver and other illness. I could not afford to pay for the cost of becoming a Canadian Citizen.

Now he had passed away last year (2012) and I became a widow. That is why I have decide to return back to USA to be with my son and his family including my sister and her family. Family are precious and I realized my time can be short too as I am an old Elder now. I need to be with them more important than here. Canada is still my home so hopefully I will come back here when I could afford to come and visit my in-laws and other Deaf friends.
:)
 
Someone point by argue with me...

Which medical conditions may cause me to be inadmissible to Canada? Applicants intending to enter Canada as permanent residents may be denied entry to Canada if their health or any of their dependents' health (whether accompanying or not): Is a danger to public health or safety; or Would cause excessive demand on the Canadian health care system or on social services in Canada.

http://www.canadavisa.com/immigration-medical-inadmissibility.html
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Your thought?
 
Mabbit said:
Not sure where to post this thread. Sorry if my English isn't that great.

I have been researching for weeks about Canada's culture, economy, immigrate policy, and etc.

I really, really, want to live in Canada more than living in US.

But the problem is...

The Canada Immigration Act requires this country to reject applications for immigration from persons with any “disease, disorder, disability or other health impairment” which may cause them to be “a danger to public health or public safety” or which may reasonably be expected to place “excessive demands on health or social services.”

http://www.cad.ca/immigration_&_medical_admissibility.php

Right now, I'm not qualify to immigrate to Canada yet. All I need to do is to improve skills in English and working experiences. I'll be ready within 5 to 10 years.

Is it possible that within 5 to 10 years that Canada will allow deaf like me to become Canadian?

Do you know anyone who is deaf and moved to Canada and obtained Canada citizenship? (not including marry someone from Canada)
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What type of migration are you seeking? What is the basis?

Also, if you were to change to basis, to say marriage, does that change anything? Wouldn't marrying a Canadian do the trick?
 
Sloan said:
What type of migration are you seeking? What is the basis?

Also, if you were to change to basis, to say marriage, does that change anything? Wouldn't marrying a Canadian do the trick?
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Again, I made the comment here about marriage in post , but the immigration officer told me and my husband (born in Canada) that it is not necessary to get married. All you need is a sponsor like support you to become either the permanent resident or full Canadian citizen. It take paperwork to fill out the forms and to talk with the immigration officers about why you want to live in Canada. Your sponsor will voice it for you. Marrying to the Canadian is not going to do any good.

So you can still be single to apply for visa (just for work or college for temporary stay and maybe not have a sponsor to help you), permanent residence or Canadian citizenship (both need sponsor to help you live in Canada).
 
Bebonang said:
Again, I made the comment here about marriage in post , but the immigration officer told me and my husband (born in Canada) that it is not necessary to get married. All you need is a sponsor like support you to become either the permanent resident or full Canadian citizen. It take paperwork to fill out the forms and to talk with the immigration officers about why you want to live in Canada. Your sponsor will voice it for you. Marrying to the Canadian is not going to do any good.

So you can still be single to apply for visa (just for work or college for temporary stay and maybe not have a sponsor to help you), permanent residence or Canadian citizenship (both need sponsor to help you live in Canada).
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Have you kept up with what the current rules are? I am under the impression that your last use of the system was quite a number of years ago.
 
Why would any country want another countries problem? Keep em out and make it work.
 
If i won Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot i would give up my citizenship and move to Canada cause Lottos are Tax Free. And when the IRS take part of my money id sue the IRS for it back
 
The Joker said:
If i won Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot i would give up my citizenship and move to Canada cause Lottos are Tax Free. And when the IRS take part of my money id sue the IRS for it back
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:lol:

It doesn't matter if you're a citizen or not--the IRS takes out its share before the winnings are dispersed. You don't get it back.
 
The Joker said:
If i won Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot i would give up my citizenship and move to Canada cause Lottos are Tax Free. And when the IRS take part of my money id sue the IRS for it back
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lol!!!!!

doesn't work like that. you got lottery from USA... therefore your lottery is subjected to tax. when one of facebook founders renounced his citizenship for Malaysia to avoid tax... he is still subjected to tax for his time in America where he received his earnings.

so you don't want to lose your money to tax? put it in trust.
 
The Joker said:
If i won Powerball or Mega Millions jackpot i would give up my citizenship and move to Canada cause Lottos are Tax Free. And when the IRS take part of my money id sue the IRS for it back
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Immigrate to Canada is not guaranteed and not straightforward and Canada could kick you out after 180 days.

If you denounce the citizenship so you are not home in USA anymore so you could be shipped to Africa that where they accept refugees.

Also, you have health issues like diabetes so Canada won't let you move in because they don't want you to burden on their healthcare.
 
The "healthcare system" is provincial. Each province has its own variation.
aside: the one that I am familiar with- is Ontario.

In the past much "abuse" of the healthcare system was widely noted in the newspapers. Thus a "much tougher screening-medical wise" has been started on" potential immigrants".

Fair?

Also, there doesn't seem to be huge decrease persons wanting to "immigrate" here. What meaning can one deduce?

aside I was born in Windsor Ontario thus no personal experience in immigrating here.
 
Yes its provencial. One can move between provences. And still have coverege..its 90 days..then ine must do the paperwork for coverage in the provence they are residing. This exlcudes quebec...they have their own bazantine system.
Not all coverege in all provences is eguak obviousky...
 
Mabbit, being Deaf is not a barrier to immigrating or becoming a Canadian citizen.
 
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