Yeh, my wife had great fun getting credentialled particularly as she qualified in 1985. We are too far down the PR route to start PNP unfortunately so sticking with PR (aor 7 oct 04) . Health Authority near Edmonton are looking into the temp permit with HRSDC but I hope it takes less than 8 weeks. Pretty hopeful of a quick turnaround as the job she has been offerred has been advertised since Sept 2005 so most of the criteria are already met. Here's hoping anyway.
Have you guys heard how difficult or otherwise the Professional Competency exam will be?
Stu

Don't have any details but this link gave us some info... www.alliancept.org/exams/index.html . We're trying to study at the moment but we're also getting ready to go so study time is of a premium. We have our exam on 9th July so we're being a bit presumptious that we will get our work permits granted.

Thanks for the Karma Stuarty

just a side - My hubbies job is HRSDC approved - hoops? yeah we've jumped 'em like everyone else and no it still hasn't speeded up PR application. When you put the HRSDC application in it may be worth getting your future employer to give the people a call from time to time, it helped with us.

Will do, thanks again for the heads up

Alberta allows physios to work on a mentoring scheme for up to 1 year so my wife won't have to sit hers till next year, more time to swat up on long forgotten basics!

My hubby had an exam booked - just to see what it consisted of, when he arrived to take it during a weeks vacation he was promptly given a 3 month work permit at the airport immigration He then had to pass the exam within that three months Fast forward house sale and move to Canada!!!!!

Yes, though we applied for PR first (SEPT 05)then my husband got a job with preapproval from HRSDC. As a result of this and the fact that its a software design job the work permit was issued the day after the papers were faxed. This was done in the states as we lived there, so I don't know how quickly London turn them round. We arrived in Ontario on March 10th.
The downside is that although its a permanent job the initial WP was only for 12 months. However we are told that reapplying up to 3 years is unlikely to be a problem. With a little bit of luck we may only need another year
Its great to get here quickly and at the moment we are trying not to think too much about the PR, it could make you very nervous! We've bought a house and everything is sorted, the idea of being forced to go back to the UK is to terrible to contemplate.
If you think your application is fairly safe then go for it! So far we have no regrets.

What subject was the exam on?! My wife needs some serious swatting to refresh those basic skills (she has specialised for about 15 years)

He is a car mechanic - 20 odd years experience with a passion for american cars so knows a lot of the lingo - ie fenders = wings boot/bonnet=trunk/hood etc. He failed the 1st exam and had about 3 weeks to study before his permit ran out and our plans went t*** up - so no pressure there. He was staying with friends we had only met a few times and had very little peace where he could actually get his head in the books and had just started work too :scared: He passed his second exam but only just. It was super stressfull for all of us and our marriage as neither of us felt we were supporting each other - I had been left behind to sell the house and empty it of the rest of the crap we hadn't already shipped and we all know how stressfull selling a house in the UK is (nothing like that here). Anyway our marriage is back on track and we are here! Just hopeing we get PR and they don't send us back :scared: Oh and the other thing he said about his exam is although it is multi choice, the wording is very different in the questions, so you have to get your head round that too. I'm just glad it wasn't my quals we were comming on

The stress on marriage is bloody awful particularly when jumping through qualification credentialling and HRSDC validation, just as well my wife is the bright one as I would have throttled someone by now. Read on another thread that it took 4 months for your Temp permit to get sorted out could you break that period down any into delay at HRSDC/CIC etc? We are trying to get things concluded by the end of August for the school term starting but things at the Canadian side are very slow.

You need to speak to Morweena (rose), she has recently taken the physio exam, and is doing the prctical exam in the near future.

The HRSDC was the slow bit, that took about 17 weeks for the approval to come through and that was with my hubbies company calling every now and then. He got a 3 moth work permit when he landed to do his exam, when he reapplied for an extension that took forever as that came from Vegreveille.

17 weeks :scared:
I hope that with the job having been advertised nationally since last September at normal hourly rates then HRSDC will be able to get their finger out quicker than that but then again it would be a first if anything happened quickly. Thanks again for your help.
Stu

Ah! but it is really exciting when it all happens and you realise that what you thought was going to happen in 3 years is happening RIGHT NOW :scared:

My hubby is awaiting HRSDC approval also (BC). It has been 5 weeks already, his company has rang to chase them up and they have said his application has just gone into the system, but we now need to wait another 4 - 6 weeks!

If he gets approval it's all systems go...I just don't want to be left behind to sell the house.

Mel