Hi, been lurking for a few months after being giving the address from the PEI forum.
My partner and I are looking at how to immigrate to Canada from Lancashire -and have looked at different route than usual.

I am a secondary school music teacher and my partner is a sign language interpreter - so the skilled worker route isn't really open to us. We also founded and run a very successful regional opera company (since 2003) and so are wondering whether to go down the self-employed cultural route on the CIC website.

Has anyone got any experience of this route (self employed route) and what are the pitfalls to this?

As we are not on the 38 jobs, do you have hints on what to apply as?

Great forum BTW

Sean

I'm not offering advice so don't get excited. Just want to say hi to you and your partner and also say that no-one on here springs to mind that has gone the route that you are exploring.

Your best option might be to read the WIKI at the top of the page to see if you can gleen any information from there.

Alternatively you could contact Paul Wildy (he posts on here) and is an Expat over in Nova Scotia who is now an immigration consultant. He may know of this way in and the whats whys and wherefores.

You do need 3 posts before you can private message someone but i'm sure a google search will pull up Pauls details, hes super nice and very helpful.

Good luck both of you x

Many thanks for your post - TBH I thought that this might be a highly specialised route for anyone to comment on and we don't really quite match the criteria.
We are also looking at the Nova Scotia Community route as musicians really enhance communities (see practising the lines already!) and that guy might be very useful indeed!
Sean