Any Canadian Permanent Residents out there?

[salejolie]

I'm seeking support and feedback on the process. I've been glued to the Canada visa forums for a bit, and I think I'm official done freaking out about taking a 3 hour English test. If you've been thru this process, please share any tips or suggestions.

[loira]

I'm sorry. I'm Canadian and we've started it for my H and it's a giant pain. He won't have to take the English test, though, since he's from the US. We've not officially submitted anything yet, we're still at the document gathering stages since it took months to get his FBI background check, and now we're moving to the US for a year or so, so we've put it on hold.

Are you applying from outside, or from within Canada?

[salejolie]

From outside. It was my understanding that even US citizens have to take the English test.

I see you guys are actually doing the opposite. We visit Houston 1-2x a year; prepare yourself for the humidity!

[loira]

Ah, I see you'd be applying under the Canadian Experience class (at least the link you sent was for that class). We'd be applying under the family class, so I don't think H needs the language test, but now I realise it's probably not because he's American and more because he's married to a Canadian citizen and would not be immigrating here on his own.

We would have loved to be eligible for something similar in the UK, but since the Tory government got rid of a lot of the opportunities for residency, we weren't allowed to count our 5 years in the UK towards residency because of the type of visas we held.

Good luck!

[fbf2006]

Jul 19, 2016 23:02:21 GMT -5 loira said:

Ah, I see you'd be applying under the Canadian Experience class (at least the link you sent was for that class). We'd be applying under the family class, so I don't think H needs the language test, but now I realise it's probably not because he's American and more because he's married to a Canadian citizen and would not be immigrating here on his own.

We would have loved to be eligible for something similar in the UK, but since the Tory government got rid of a lot of the opportunities for residency, we weren't allowed to count our 5 years in the UK towards residency because of the type of visas we held.

Good luck!

It was indeed a bummer when we found out the type of visa we had wouldn't allow our residency in the UK to count towards the 5 years needed to apply for permanent residency.

[qcinoct]

Jul 18, 2016 18:16:37 GMT -5 salejolie said:

From outside. It was my understanding that even US citizens have to take the English test.

I see you guys are actually doing the opposite. We visit Houston 1-2x a year; prepare yourself for the humidity!

You can go other things to prove you are fluent. I got my PR in 2006. I submitted transcripts from my universities (2 in US, 1 in Canada) which showed that I got my degrees at English language institutions.) As I'm an academic I also submitted papers I had published. They accepted it so I didn't have to go the exam