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Just wondered how many people have considered australia instead of the 4 year wait for a visa for canada you read about.

Accepts a wide variety of skills, hairdressing, childcare, bricklayers among the most needed. Visa processing times coming in as short as 2 months :eek:

Any thoughts

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Did for a millisecond but wife doesn't like the distance, 'wildlife', attitude to shiela's etc etc.

It would certainly be easier to get in, but her parents are getting old and she wanted the option, however simbolic, to get back to the UK easily if required.

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Probably because we want to go to Canada - anywhere within the EU is possible without a visa so why aren't you directing people to there as well ? ;)

Some of us don't just "want to leave the UK" but actually want "to go to Canada" - there is a big difference between the two :eek:

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Not directing people anywhere :rolleyes: just asking a question about two countries with such gaping differences in visa skills and processing times.

EU is obviously not the main choice for most people due to language differences. Australia and Canada apart from the very obvious climate difference offer quite similar things in some respects, so its an interesting question why wait 4 years when you could get a new life in a few months.

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Why move at all?? What's so bad about Britain?

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Whilst I hear what you are saying, I would imagine that those wishing to go to either Canada or Australia would know what the processing times are for each country. It seems to me that, as the climates of the two countries are so different, the only applicants that would be interested in one after considering the other were those that simply wanted to leave the UK. :D

Other than the language and the fact that they are both in the Commonwealth, what "similar things" do Australia and Canada offer potential immigrants :confused:

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Well theres probably 4000 pages answering that question (rightly or wrongly on the OZ forum :D) so wont go down that track. Personally think you get pretty much the same problems in any country.

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I have never met a nation of people so down on their country as the Brits. Is it really that bad? Before I moved to England I was under the impression that the UK was hell on earth. I personally think that England is a great place to live and I really can't understand why everyone is in such a rush to leave :confused:

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The big one for a start, the bigger house for less money, well that is the idea portrayed in the UK, often out of date info tho. Ditto bigger car, ditto perceived notion of cheaper cost of living, note I say perceived notion not reality fact. You probably get the there will be less crime, less scumbags notion too although I doubt thats true anywhere.

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Agree with that, again its back to the anywheres better than here rubbish portrayed in the UK media.

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maybe im wrong but doesnt ur profile say, where one in 4 are immigrant? are u looking to become one to? :rolleyes:

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I think I can see where JnR are coming from - we get quite a few posts in the Aus forums from people asking if Aus would be better than Canada - a lot of people seem to feel that they just want to get out of the UK, with Aus & Canada being top of the list. Having read so many posts from people who seem to just want to leave the UK, with no knowedge of any other country - Aus is always quoted as having wonderful weather (yea right, blowing a gale here in Brissie yet again!) and is supposed to be cheap ( :zzz: ). What are the main draws for Canada. I wonder, esp if they have to balance out the long wait.

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For me it wasn't so much about leaving the UK as wanting to live in Canada.

A couple of years ago I considered moving to Australia for a moment and New Zealand for a few minutes (even though I have not been to either).

No doubt New Zealand is a breathtakingly beautiful place to live and play but so remote from the rest of the world (Australia is bad enough!). There is no way my ageing mother would travel to NZ and Australia would probably be too far also, but western Canada is just 8 hours on the plane.

Canada is also has the advantage of having the diversity of the USA on its doorstep and Central America relatively close, even Hawaii isn't far.

Another nail in the antipodean coffin was the opinion of a good friend of mine who has just returned from Sydney after 6 years; he grew to hate the place.

The 4 year wait is an absolute joke I must agree. How can the Canadian immigration service and/or government be allowed to get away with this? The official line is they want to get the processing times down but seem to be doing very little to facilitate it.

Of course, it is quite possible to get in to Canada in 6 months via the PNP route. This is what we have done and whilst we are in a position to do this via the setting up of a business it is quite possible to do this as a skilled worker too.

Ian.

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The Canadian and Australian cultures really are quite different, the climate is different, lifestyle is different... even the language is quite different.

My partner wanted to consider Australia because of processing times, but I just didn't want to go there. These are two very different countries. If all you want to do is escape the UK, then you really need to understand why. I know, I've "escaped the UK", and found the place I escaped too (France) had its own set of problems. If you ask me today whether I'd rather bring my children up in the UK or France, I would say resoundingly the UK. It's such a dynamic, positive forward looking place.

Look how far it's come in 20 years! At the end of the '80s it was bankrupt, ugly and poor - for the last 10 years it's been *the* place to be in Europe, great economy, great cultural life, blooming restaurants. 10 years ago, a civil servant in France was looking for English lessons because she felt the French economy was going no-where and she'd have to go to the Uk to look for work. How right she was (well rightish).

So be careful about why you want to move. Why am I emmigrating? My family fancies a change, we want to learn something new, we're a bit bored with where we are, it's not supporting the lifestyle we feel we'd like. The UK would be better for US, but Canada even more so!

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Really? I'd say they're pretty similar.