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Title:True North Strong & Free
Notice:Introduction in Note 535, For Sale/Wanted in 524
Moderator:POLAR::RICHARDSON
Created:Fri Jun 19 1987
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1040
Total number of notes:13668

87.0. "AN EMIGRATION QUESTION!" by SUBURB::HARRISONA (Alastair Harrison @RDL) Tue Jul 26 1988 13:16

My name is Alastair,I live in England in a little village on the river
    Thames near Reading about one hour west of London.I work in UK CMO
    (Country Merchandising Organisation),I have been a Telesales 
    Specialist for one year selling mainly periphal products and next
    month I am joining our Small Systems Group.They are currently selling
    a wide range of products from the Decmate through to the Microvax
    and the Vaxstation 3000 series.Hopefully this should increase my
    value as a DEC employee who wants to go places.Just abit of background
    info,I am twenty one and have only really got one year of worthwhile
    work experience in a computer enviroment.I have family in Edmonton
    (Alberta),London (Ontario) and Toronto.I have visited all these
    places and many more.I've spent a total of one year in Canada over
    a period of ten years and ten holidays and I LOVE the country and
    the people.I'm really just waiting for the right time and the right
    oppotunity to try and emigrate,however this has become increasingly
    difficult over the last ten to fifteen years since my Mother and
    Sisters emigrated!My Mother is returning to this country this year
    to live.She is lucky enough like my sisters to have dual citizenship.
    My question is how can I get a job preferably with DEC in Canada
    and how can I emigrate?Anybody with any answers or any suggestions
    PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE comment! Thanks for reading,cheers ALASTAIR.
    
    
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87.1OTELLO::LOOIWed Jul 27 1988 17:2719
    Alastair,
    
    As you may be aware, Canada has the so-called point system for
    determining the suitability of potential immigrants.  You should
    get the necessary information from the Canadian embassy in London
    (just off Trafalgar Square I recall).  I think the number of points
    needed is about 75.  If you get one of more of your relatives to
    write a letter on your behalf saying that they'll help resettle
    you, that alone is worth something like 10 points!  Speaking English
    or French is worth about 5 or 6.  Having a degree is 2 or 3.  Coming
    from certain areas of the world is a benefit, too.  Your technical
    skills should also count for a few.  If you get a job (not that
    easy) that'll easily put you over the top.  The easiest way of course
    to get into Canada is simply to deposit CDN$250,000 into some kind
    of fund that'll invest in businesses in Canada with a guaranteed
    return of about 7% or something like that.  This gives you landed
    immigrant status almost immediately.
    
    Mark.
87.2CommentXCUSME::KINGGive me a ChallengeSat Aug 13 1988 07:056
    Point system?  This is the first I've ever heard of something like
    that, its a good idea!  You get quality applicants for emmigration.
    
    I wish the U.S. would do that too.
    
    Bryan
87.3OTELLO::LOOITue Aug 16 1988 17:0923
    Okay, more information that I believe is correct (although I am
    not an immigration lawyer, etc, etc).
    
    To emigrate to Canada, the first step if possible is to get some
    kind of offer from an employer.  If not, then go and get the
    preliminary application form from the local consulate.  This
    application is an application for an application!  Basically, it's
    the first step in the screening process.  What you say here is
    critical!  Some skills/professions are for the moment highly coveted
    in Canada; I heard right now: RN, CPA, mechanic, artist, graphic
    artist.  If you qualify, then you'll be sent an application and can 
    eventually (I suppose) make it to Canada.  
    
    Apparently, the points given for certain attributes of the applicant
    are not generally public knowledge.  Also, the points given change
    from time to time, to reflect skills that are in greater demand,
    etc.  Thus, it is entirely possible that one year RNs are all the
    vogue, but the next year, there is such a surfeit of them that
    no one'll give them the time of day!
    
    Good luck.
    
    Mark.
87.4North Bound...with bags backed!WFOV11::KOEHLERDamn, the my Igloo melted!!!Wed Aug 17 1988 18:3110
     
    I'm glad we are not going through all that to get a Student Visa for
    my daughter. It has been a hassle so far though. Next week I have
    to drive her to Montreal to get some type of papers and back to
    the border to get her visa. We have talked to everybody it seems
    and this is the only way.
    
    Maybe she will emigrate when she graduates from McGill.
    
    Jim