My experience in Canada!

[s.gupta1487]

Read about my expriences of Canada here: http://shrutispointofview.blogspot.ca/

 

[Ramelak]

The blog is good and sound advice. Yes, one must not be demotivational while advising newcomers, but one tends to feel a little bitter after unpleasant experiences. After all, Canada is not a very welcoming country and almost every newcomer faces huge battles, specially if they are not financially backed up. And yes, relatives and friends can turn out to be least helpful, having any high expectations from them is sure to backfire. So what do you do? You need patience, tolerance and perseverance and need to go about it one day at a time - there are no short cuts to the settling down process. My personal advice to all considering moving to Canada is - what are you giving up back home? If a great job, good social standing and stability and not in your 20s, then DONT MOVE! There is nothing to be achieved by moving to Canada, in fact you will feel a lot of regression. Move only if you're a spring chicken, about to taste the world for the first time, and flexible with your options. Above all, good luck to all!

 

[polara69]

I do not know what you all were experiencing or expecting, but I love it here. Everyone is helpful and friendly, I got a job quickly, found a nice apartment, nice car. I cannot share any negative issues so far. For me it is just beautiful here and I am not in my 20s, yes I have given up but found again a great job, the wife is happy and we spend more time together than before.

It is important to see that not everything is bad in Canada, not every immigrant is suffering or having problems.

 

[iam_toby]

I do not know what you all were experiencing or expecting, but I love it here. Everyone is helpful and friendly, I got a job quickly, found a nice apartment, nice car. I cannot share any negative issues so far. For me it is just beautiful here and I am not in my 20s, yes I have given up but found again a great job, the wife is happy and we spend more time together than before.

It is important to see that not everything is bad in Canada, not every immigrant is suffering or having problems.

Well that's the stuff I like to read ) All the best for you and your family!!

 

[swapno]

Absolutely. Opportunity is vast in Canada if you can hit properly. See the post of mine in the link
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/all-bangladeshi-applicants-forum-t19664.0.html;msg2346575#msg2346575
It is not very very hard and even you can get a job before landing. Hope this will give some motivation to people.

Well that's the stuff I like to read ) All the best for you and your family!!

 

[emamabd]

I do not know what you all were experiencing or expecting, but I love it here. Everyone is helpful and friendly, I got a job quickly, found a nice apartment, nice car. I cannot share any negative issues so far. For me it is just beautiful here and I am not in my 20s, yes I have given up but found again a great job, the wife is happy and we spend more time together than before.

It is important to see that not everything is bad in Canada, not every immigrant is suffering or having problems.

Its good to read positive stories about immigrants who managed to settle well in Canada...there are many sad stories in this forum and the good ones will make a balance. I would encourage you to your story in a new post - if you have the time ofcourse..and to share how you managed to succeed - for the benefit of all new immigrants

 

[sibarut]

positives and negatives experiences greatly helps alot for people whose trying to get there also. Please just keep posting because you are all helping

 

[life2010]

Guys think like this

If somebody a western born immigrates to india how difficult life proves for him. Different culture, low pay, hassle, new way I life etc etc

So same happens when u move from other country to canada. It takes 7-10 yrs to get set. The younger I r, faster u get used to.

Grass in greener all sides of the world..

 

[fkl]

I was wondering how much of the negatives would apply if you are a temp worker with already a pretty good job offered, not in 20's, bringing a family (wife and kids) along. Coming from under developed world and leaving a pretty good and settled job back home too.

The reasons my original decision was based upon

1. Good schooling for kids with little cost.
2. Breadth of exposure, having already worked with several companies in the US - still living in another country and working for global customers is a different thing.
3. Cost of living seems STABLE in Canada. Yes - no? I am pretty highly paid in my home country, but end up saving nothing since inflation rate is very high and it keeps souring on a quarterly basis, although we maintain a very good quality of life.
4. Any long term savings in Canada would sum up to bigger amounts in my home country after the conversion.

 

[Bargeld]

Its good to read positive stories about immigrants who managed to settle well in Canada...there are many sad stories in this forum and the good ones will make a balance. I would encourage you to your story in a new post - if you have the time ofcourse..and to share how you managed to succeed - for the benefit of all new immigrants

The vast majority of people are just fine, which is why once overcoming the immigration hurdles, they tend to stop posting.

 

[Hasher]

I was wondering how much of the negatives would apply if you are a temp worker with already a pretty good job offered, not in 20's, bringing a family (wife and kids) along. Coming from under developed world and leaving a pretty good and settled job back home too.

The reasons my original decision was based upon

1. Good schooling for kids with little cost.
2. Breadth of exposure, having already worked with several companies in the US - still living in another country and working for global customers is a different thing.
3. Cost of living seems STABLE in Canada. Yes - no? I am pretty highly paid in my home country, but end up saving nothing since inflation rate is very high and it keeps souring on a quarterly basis, although we maintain a very good quality of life.
4. Any long term savings in Canada would sum up to bigger amounts in my home country after the conversion.

I agree, looking back home Pakistan where all my relatives are living - made me sad that I left them but looking ahead for future of myself and Kids motivate me a lot. I didn't able to find job here for first five months but I never gave up as I landed well prepared understanding the job market situation. I can understand people coming from developed countries and not getting job here are far more frustrated than those coming from undeveloped countries like India, Pakistan, Philippine, Vietnam, Nepal, Bangladesh, Syria, Egypt, Fuji etc.

I landed as Engineer with working numbers of years of experience of International Oil & Gas companies, my first job was working in a fast food restaurant, courier dispatch then so on, on and on. Now after almost three years of landing I am working for a Multinational Oil company at a reasonable position and pay. For most us nothing came back within first few months, it always takes time to settle once you immigrate - no matter where and Canada is no exception. Naturally, If you are coming here with huge saving you may settle faster at good standard from beginning but coming here with just hand to mouth would extend your period of struggle for settling.

 

[sujamana]

thought of sharing my experience after i had completed my landing in Oct 2010. We were in US and in 2012 mid, suddenly we had decided to venture in Canada with 3 years left in PR.

Finding a apartment for rent was different if you doesn't have a job in Canada. Luckily my US employer helped me with all the relevant letters and signed a lease for 12 months with the plan of settling my family in Canada and later try to find a job and relocate myself.

In the mean time I switched job in US because of my workpermit nearing expiry and found the job location close to Toronto (500 miles one way)

After came to this place, started commuting every weekend (driving 500 miles oneway with one day remote working - employer agreed for it and started accumulating canada STAY days for myself)

This setup had gone for 5 months nearly and meantime, i was taking interviews in Canada and on.

Finally, my day has come and found a job in Missisauga, joined 3 weeks before and commuting from home to work daily.

So from my experience, i see there is always some kind of fortune with us to navigate us in all these years.

I always keep it very simple, try a shot and do not depend on outcome

May be positve to others...

- sujamana

 

[leveragedhedging]

Here is my story:

When I first came to Canada, I must say life was not easy. I was on a study permit and started off by staying with relatives in order to save money on residence as I was going to study Engineering at UofT. A few weeks in after landing, they told me that I couldn't continue to stay there and I suddenly found myself homeless. At that time I could only work for the University so I made friends with students who were in student government and they gave me menial jobs like putting up posters in the dead of winter. I also worked a few cash jobs tutoring high school students and thus ended up spending less time studying myself. I ended up flunking in my second year. I didn't give up, I enrolled into college and took Business Administration specializing in Financial planning. The reason I chose this career was because of the Co-Op program and I was determined to get the best job available there.

I was able to get out of being homeless by staying with roommates from my country. This was a good idea at first, until they started to brainwash me and were verbally and physically abusive to me. Eventually I gathered the courage to move out after 3 years. I was able to secure 3 jobs all while going to school (I worked at a fish and juice distribution co. as an offloader, a piping factory as a labourer and at a retail clothing store downtown). I was passing my courses and was able to secure the best co-op position as a processor in the back office of a brokerage firm. Once I got this position, I quit the other jobs except for the retail clothing store. I graduated with high honors and in a few weeks I was able to go back and work with the brokerage firm. A few months in, thanks to the recession, my contract got rescinded, even though I was a top perfomer and had achieved various awards, the rule was LIFO, last in first out. I chose to apply for entry level positions all over Canada while most of my school colleagues were happy to sit around at home or work at McD's and Starbucks. The front office brokerage firm in Winnipeg called me on a Tuesday, and by the time Saturday rolled in I was on a plane heading there.

The first year was hard. I had to make new friends and literally start over. I had taken a temp contract for one year, and by the time the year was up, I was given a permanent position (and promotions) in the firm. That's when I applied for Permanent residency. All in all, my journey started in 2002 and I got my permanent residency in 2013. I feel lucky and blessed, but at the same time I know I earned it by working hard, making the right connections and impressions and having a lot of patience, perseverance and resilience

 

[Rossei]

I have to give a brief background re: how I ended up in Canada before I tell my story. Here it goes:

I came to Canada back in 2005 in order to study Electrical Engineering at University of Windsor. I was the top student of one of the renowned high schools in Bangladesh and that raised the bar of expectation. I did moderately well at the engineering admission test in Bangladesh; but that wasn't satisfying to me or my parents. So, my mom took initiative to send me overseas for a quality education. At that time, I wasn't aware of uWindsor's reputation. I found a liaison office who dealt with uWindsor, UofT and York; I applied to both UofW & UofT and got admission. But I was told that I would have to wait another 8 months to get into UofT-Engineering; hence I had to choose uWindsor thinking that I would be able to transfer credit later.

Well, it wasn't easy to leave your home country at 19 especially when you're the only child of your parents. It certainly did not help when my father passed away all of a sudden at the beginning my 2nd semester. He was only 52 and the sole incoming member of our family. It unveiled huge pressure on me. I dropped that term, flew back home with heart-broken and then came back after 3 months due to my mom's unparalleled motivation. I was so troubled with the thought how I'm going to bear the cost in Canada; which hampered my 2nd year studies tremendously. We actually had to sell dad's shares in our business (limited company) although he had on-going plans to expand the business. Being very close to my mom, I thought I should earn my own and that led me to do co-op.

During my undergrad period, I had 4 co-op terms (24 months in total) which helped a lot to pay my tuition, bear other cost and finally land with a permanent job. Initially, I put studies aside to get my first placement and as a result, I didn't do well in my 2nd year. But I did pretty well in 3rd and extremely well in my last year. I even secured my permanent job with one of my co-op employers (a crown corp. of Ontario) in my final year.

For an extended co-op term and dropped semester due to my father's demise; my graduation got delayed almost by 2 years. Despite all these unforeseen circumstances, I graduated being Dean's listed. As soon as I graduated, I took time off before joining my employer and got married back home (to my girlfriend who was maintaining a long-distance relationship with me for the whole time). My employer helped me to apply for Ontario PNP and we got our PR within a year. I applied for Super Visa for my mom and she was approved. She visited us last year for the first time. I’ve just become eligible to apply for citizenship and we’ve bought our first house in this month. Only thing that needs to be sorted out is my wife’s career path. She is an IMG (Int’l Medical Grad/ Foreign Trained Doctor) and it’s a long (really long) shot in Canada.

So, life is treating us well. I wasn’t fond of my university (especially with faculty/facilities/administration) nor Canadian life-style or weather; but I really appreciate the opportunities I’ve been given (which are rare back home). I believe that Canada can bring fortune if you’re on the right path for yourself.

 

[zardoz]

Re: My experience in Canada!.......... When I was Not FuLLy ReCoveRed of....

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........... iN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 1990 ~, When My iMMiGRATiEN CANADA REFUGiE CLAiMATE CASE was Being RegisteRed With the MiSS CAROLiNE The BARRiSTOR AT Law , at the " O`HARA STREET " , QUiEN`s ST . WEST , TORONTO DOWN TOWN CiTY ,TheRe MY iMMiGRATiEN CANADA CASE WAS THEN SHiFTED FROM " The SOJRiN HOUSE " , CLOSE To UNiTED CHURCH ...... 51 ST. MiCKiAL HOSPiTAL , BOND STREET AT THE QUiEN`S STREET EAST .......BY The LAWS When I was Not then FuLLy ReCoveRed My PReVious COUNTRY ( Pakistan ) FROM VeRY TORTUROUS BODY HeaLths , I was NeVeR ABLe to Be EXiLed , Being enFoRCeFuLLy to be DePORTED again to My Caused Conditions Back CountRy Pakistan ........... So , PLease VeRy URGentLy ARRange My Next iMMiGRatien CANADA HeaRings THROUGH MY ALReady AWaits LAWYERS , ESPECiALLY M.R.S. CAROLiNE The BARRiSTOR AT LAWS .........

You lost your refugee claim and had to be deported? Chances of returning to Canada = virtually none.