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Forum: Trucking
May 21st 2012, 4:08 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

AINP= 18 months.

PR=17 months.

This is the time it took us at one company,hopefully nobody has to go through the things we did.

If you work somewhere you like it probably wouldn't be too...
Forum: Trucking
May 11th 2012, 9:00 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Thank you!
Forum: Trucking
May 11th 2012, 2:57 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Thanks Dave.
Yes we're really glad this trips over!
Forum: Trucking
May 9th 2012, 11:33 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Thank you both!
Forum: Trucking
May 8th 2012, 12:41 am
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

OK so for a close to this thread:

We became Permanent Residents of Canada a couple of weeks ago.

Ours was a particularly long and arduous route to residency,which I would wish on nobody.

All...
Forum: Trucking
Sep 9th 2011, 4:06 am
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

If you read the OP post you will see that they applied before the requirements changed-therefore they did not get grandfather rights.In other words the goalposts WERE MOVED.
Forum: Trucking
Sep 8th 2011, 8:16 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

There will always be a shortage of truck drivers here. You can’t attract youngsters to the job and the baby boomers are due to retire soon, these are facts and are laid out numerous times in the...
Forum: Trucking
Sep 7th 2011, 9:46 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

What happens when you originally met the requirements,after checking out everything first,then they go change them?

Of course it's to service the requirements of the country you emigrate to-what...
Forum: Trucking
Sep 7th 2011, 9:13 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Agreed Gremmie- it's just that they take so damn long to tell you!
Forum: Trucking
Sep 7th 2011, 8:38 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

You end up paying a lot of money up front to the Canadian government,not to mention taxes all the time you work here,and they don't even abide by their own posted timelines!!! Other countries manage...
Forum: Trucking
Sep 7th 2011, 8:09 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Hey Karen, so sorry to hear about you and your families plight and I really hope you win the fight with immigration.

The education requirements did change in January 2011 and one of the guys who...
Forum: Trucking
Jul 7th 2011, 1:11 am
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

If you ask for people to come work in your country and promise them a processing time and other certain conditions you should stick to them-if you don't then I believe the technical term for that is...
Forum: Trucking
Jul 6th 2011, 8:45 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Been talking to the guys from other Provinces working for the company-a lot of the issues now are Federal.
Recently,one driver from Saskatoon waited for 4 months after applying for PR,got the...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 22nd 2011, 7:34 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

How is it nearly everyone on here appears to know how to fix things with the immigration process-but the things being said are not,or never have been possible to achieve here.
The situations I have...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 22nd 2011, 7:24 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

I note you have been very quiet on how long the PR process took you and what would have happened if you were unable to change your employer while on a WP?:unsure:
Forum: Trucking
Jun 22nd 2011, 7:22 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Trust me I tried everything to switch the nomination over when I got laid off,and another driver just switched companies and has had to start again on his PNP for the new company.
As for not...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 15th 2011, 10:59 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Now hopefully the dust and insults have settled,and I still never understand the need for all the bust ups on here:confused::

I have successfully persuaded(mildly threatened) CIC to give me a two...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 15th 2011, 9:22 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Who ever said it was anyone's fault-except for the foot dragging government offices involved in the process-not forgetting at the end of the day we actually pay for the PR processing.

Yes,there...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 15th 2011, 9:12 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Putting chains on is a requirement of the job!!!

Laid off February 13th. 2009. Spent two weeks trying to locate a company with LMO's to no avail.KB 33 gave me some contacts and I secured a...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 15th 2011, 9:02 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Alberta doesn't allow you transfer the nomination,or application for nomination,over to another employer-you must start the whole process all over again.
Forum: Trucking
Jun 15th 2011, 8:58 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Didn't say I put the chains on in the mud-now that would be poor planning and really dumb:rofl:-the foot of mud is what you get to lay out the fuel hoses in at the tanks:D
Forum: Trucking
Jun 8th 2011, 9:53 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Thank you Gremmie-I knew you'd be first in there:)
Forum: Trucking
Jun 8th 2011, 9:52 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

Dave it's very tough to move on in Alberta,that's what makes it tough-putting up with crap you'd never put up with in your life before!

You want hard working-try coming with me for a trip...
Forum: Trucking
Jun 8th 2011, 9:22 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Re: Telling it How it is.

First off- I only get home after a six day shift and there ain't no signals of any sorts in mountain mines to allow me to respond and defend myself against the anticipated onslaught of responses....
Forum: Trucking
Jun 2nd 2011, 6:20 pm
Replies: 261
Views: 25,744
Posted By HeadingNorth

Telling it How it is.

Well for those thinking of coming to Canada-you’ll read a lot of things saying how great and easy it is to emigrate to Canada, well for every one of those “good” stories you hear I can give you four...
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