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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate

Congratulations.

From what I have been able to gather (primarily from the CanVisa forum), your processing went pretty quickly, at least compared to others.

I wish you luck.

[Sidebar: I seriously considered applying for permanent residency, and had the application ready to go and send off, until I realized that (i) the IRS-CRA tax burden and interplay (or lack thereof) would become pretty onerous; and (2) Canada puts up some significant roadblocks for professionals (from the US and elsewhere) to have their qualifications recognized here, which would effectively mean (in my case) that I could not be employed here in my current career* without undergoing a lot of testing and possible classwork, among other things. I'm just too old for that stuff right now, and it honestly seems to me that the younger and poorer you are, the easier it is to immigrate to Canada. Once you have a lot of attachments to your home country (i.e., the US, with say, IRAs, taxable investment accounts, and the like), it becomes a lot harder to migrate all of that over to Canada, even if you want to, simply because of how the government bureaucracy and tax rules work. I hope that is not the case for you and that your move here works well for you....]


* Think of someone who deals with a lot of paper, advises you of your legal obligations under and in respect of said paper, and drafts a lot of paper.

Luckily Oklahoma has the same economy as Calgary in it's driven by the Oil and Gas industry. I'm a landman and it looks like they are a bit different in each country. To do exactly what I was doing in the states I'd have to take a test and get licensed. Not a huge deal. Luckily, I have talked to a few places up in Calgary who seems genuinely interested in me being a part of their company. We will see how it plays out.