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- Manitoba goes to Southern Europe on recruitment mission: Spain and Greece on target!A reader from Spain passed me the link to this information. From the Choose Manitoba web site, it reads: Southern Europe Recruitment Mission Representatives of the Manitoba government’s immigration program (the MPNP) will be in southern European in...
- List of eligible occupations for Canada immigration 2013: Is yours one of them?As you may already know, there is a list of eligible occupations that Canada determined as the ones to have in the new Federal Skilled Worker program. Each one of these 24 occupations has a “NOC Code”, which is a number that identifies it...
- Federal Skilled Worker Program: Can I apply or not?If you are still confused about the changes to the Federal Skilled Worker Program announced last week, hopefully this diagram will help you clarify… Remember, if you have questions always ask a certified professional!The post Federal Skilled Wo...
- Canada finally announces the new Federal Skilled Worker occupations list… and some other thingsIn a News Release published today April 18, 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced the list of priority occupations and the list of organizations designated to conduct Educational Credential Assessments for the Federal Skilled Worker Prog...
- A tomahawk is a tomahawk is a tomahawk…A few weeks ago there was a very important announcement in Ottawa: the city was having a new professional basketball team! With the excitement all around, media and city officials gathered at the venue. There, the owner of the team proudly unveiled t...
- What do Canadians laugh about when they laugh about themselves?One of my favorite radio shows is “The Irrelevant Show” It’s a very entertaining comedy show that, once in a while, shows how Canadians know to laugh about themselves. If you don’t know it I recommend you to subscribe to their...
- Is Immigration a form of Resurrection/Liberation?Coming from South America you may have already guessed that my religion (if any) would be Roman Catholic. Coming most of you from South East Asia and the Arab World, I can guess you may not be Roman Catholic or Jew. Nevertheless, and despite what you...
- How do you certify your foreign credentials in Canada?What are you talking about, Mr. G.? If you have some kind of educational credential from your country of origin and you are planning to come to Canada as an student or resident, you will need to make your credentials be recognized. What this process...
- Federal Skilled Trades Program: The Big Lie During the past few weeks I’ve been doing some research on the Federal Skilled Trades Program. I was trying to find out how anyone abroad could apply to the Permanent Residence using this program and without a job offer. Having a job offer f...
- No pain, no gain: Why there’s no easy way to CanadaI’m sure that, like me, most of my fellow bloggers in this “Coming to Canada” niche receive every day one or two emails (most of the times in a terrible English), asking how we can help this people come to Canada NOW! For some reaso...
- Easiest, fastest, way to go to Canada: The great secret revealed!None. More next week.
- Single Latino Female looks for an A-Hole with Canadian Passport. Contact your closest Caribbean Ressort.Love, love, love… It can turn us stupids, eh? Every single year there is a notice like this going around. A title called my attention on twitter the other day. The lawyer Sergio Karas (a well known immigration lawyer from Toronto and of Argent...
- Inter-Governmental Soccer League: The Ottawa Co-ed Soccer League for Government Departments
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Miscelaneous soccer This is a Guest Post written by Eduardo Bojorquez, Chairman of the IGSL. We are the Inter-Governmental Soccer League (IGSL). Our league is entering its third year. The idea is to have a soccer league composed of government departments, including... - Stop feeling sorry for yourself and start doing something!et me be honest with you: I am really frustrated at the situation. Week after week after week I receive emails from people all over the world asking me to solve their problems. Even worst: I receive mails from people that are supposed to be able to...
- All you wanted to know about Canadian Winter in one postLast week Ottawa had its coldest day in eight years: the wind chill surpassed the mark of 40 below zero. For us that came to Canada in 2005, was then our coldest winter day of a lifetime! Just during the weekend we had a bit more normal temperature...
- How to write an effective email that brings you to CanadaIt looks like this blog is growing at a very slow but steady pace. The first indication is the subscribers count, the next one are visitors but the most noticeable one are emails in my inbox. I’m receiving emails from may countries around the w...
- Is Canada worth moving to? 11 questions to get to the big answerWhen we decided to immigrate our first options were Australia and New Zealand. It was the year 99 or 2000 and I remember going to a conference organized by an Immigration Consultant office in a Hotel in Buenos Aires. It was a Saturday morning and the...
- The new Federal Skilled Trades program officially started accepting applicationsHello and Happy new Year! We are back and also is CIC. Yesterday the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Mr. Jason Kenney announced that this new program (that we told you about a few days ago) has officially started accepting...
- Happy Holidays and See You Next YearWriting in English is a terrible challenge for me. It takes me a lot of work translate with my ides with the same sentiment from Los Ziegler to The Zieglers. Sometimes, I just give up and move on leaving this small community without some information...
- The announcement we’ve all been waiting for: FSW to start on May 4th 2013Finally, Minister Jason Kenney announced today the new FSW program that has been on hold for so many months. In a News Release published today, Citizen and Immigration Canada announced that next May 4th, 2013 the new selection system for the FSW Prog...
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