amawill

I have registered for the Canada expo in Leeds and before parting with hard earned money is this worth going to? any feedback greatly appreciatedted

steve666

No. Don't part with any money as yet. Look around this site first. Starting with the 'Wiki'. Please. Otherwise you'll get someone else rich at your expense.

Elaine B.

Just curious how much does it cost? I'd never heard of these expo's until I joined BE. Mind you I did zero research before I moved.

amawill

Each Ticket Costs £12.50. Children under 18 years of age are free.
http://www.expo-canada.com/why_canada.aspx

Elaine B.

Not a crazy amount of money then it could be interesting but like Steve says you can find out lots on this site for free. Good luck with your research.

amawill

I know not much still petrol money etc. I am a nurse so thinking there may be some contacts there ?

steve666

It's not the cost of the expo I was talking about, it's what they lay you with while you're there.
Your money though. They want it...
Be careful.

Coffeepot

Been to a couple for the most its companies that will get you a job and help with the paper work, as a nurse you def don't need any help like that.

It is worth going but as Steve said don't part with any money, we were at Sandown recently and one of the companies told us to get us a job and do leg work would be around £ 3500 there are employers there and people recruiting nursing staff, info is on there website,

The employers won't charge you so go direct.

search the threads ( using search ) at top for nursing and you will see lots have job offers and there is lots of info on there, as a nurse you can choose virtually anywhere you want in Canada and get there quickly, good luck

dwight-van-man

We went to the Edinburgh expo a month or so back and although there wasn't much there that we couldn't find on t'interweb, it did kinda focus us on doing more research etc Also, by paying £10 to Willis & Brazelot for a skilled worker visa assessment, we got a buy one get one free Zoom flight voucher - so basically a flight to Canada until October for about £30 (and W&B still haven't charged the £10 to my card )

fozzy33

HI,

Is this offer still valid??

Would be worth just giving them a tenner for the flight offer.

If so can you PM me the details, a we plan to use zoom too.

dwight-van-man

If W&B are at this expo, I would guess they're offering the same deal because it was the main reason people were talking to them!

The assessment fee was £10 per adult (which I beleive is a reduction on their standard fee) and all we did was complete their skilled worker visa assessment form. They put a coded sticker on our form to indicate it was a discounted assessment and eligible for the Zoom offer. The Zoom voucher came through the post about two weeks later with the report on the visa assessment. There is no pressure to sign up with W&B after this - we havent even had a follow up call or email.

The zoom voucher offers 2 for 1 flights from Belfast, Galsgow, Cardiff, Manchester, Paris or gatwick from March 1st to October 31st but with some schedule restrictions July 1st to August 31st. Taxes are payable and any extras like pre-assigned seats, premium upgrade and additional legroom are extra. Finally, you can only use it to book over the phone.

Hope that helps!

Coffeepot

Thats the same one that came to Sandown the next one in June at Olympia and Leeds i think has a much better choice of employers, not sure why you were charged £ 10.00 for an assessment as they are free, theres one on the CIC web site, we got the 2 for 1 Zoom offer for NS, i think thats on the return flights as in second visit ? haven't really read it properly yet, if its the same thing ?

Theres much more on the net for the next one, i looked a few weeks ago there is a list of employers etc that are attending, and this show is geared only for Canada where Sandown was for OZ and New Zealand, including Nursing and IT

We went 2 years ago it was a good show, although we were given the wrong information and basically told it would take years to get there with IT as there was no call for it i didn't realise at the time they were trying to get money out of us
We were told around £5,000 for doing what we have now done for ourselves that is the skilled worker visa application and research for a job, you don't need to part with any money except to CIC with your application, unless you want your hand held all the way even then if you read the forum there are lots of people that are not happy with the services they have had to pay for, unless your situation is complicated of course.

if you want to use a consultant have a look at the immigration experts that contribute to this site like Andrew miller and JAJ, If we need one i would use one of off here.

fozzy33

Just looked up expo dates, none in Scotland,

So I wont be able to do that, thought I was going to save some money there.

dwight-van-man

Fozzy - maybe get someone from here who's going to mail you one of the W&B forms? The had piles that were prestamped with the voucher code for people to take away and complete later ( my kids lifted around 20 but I binned them I'm afraid)

Coffeepot - we were being a bit sneaky... I'd already done the CIC assessment, just thought it was worth paying the ten bucks to get the flight offer (sorry W&B...) and having read through the various threads on here, I'd pretty much decided that we didn't really need a visa consultant - at leats not one who's going to charge 5k plus! Appreciate the heads up about the possible conditions to the flight offer though - it doesn't mention that on the voucher but I guess that means nothing! Am going to phone them later to check...

sinope

I've registered for the Olympia expo, I'm waiting for the list of employers who will be there to be emailed to me before I commit to going (or spending £25). No point going just to talk to immigration consultants.