Hi All

I am 42 years old, my grand parents, moved to Canada after the War and got citizenship.... they died 10 years ago....

My only blood relative in the world is my Aunty (their daughter) and her family.... she was born in england... but moved with them in 1950 and is now a canadian citizen and married a canadian....

I am british citizen....


please can anyone help me answer the question, as to whether this will help me get a visa into canada

I am single with no kids....

I want to move to North America and I am wondering if this can help me get a visa and start a business in NA

If it is possible .... how long does it take.....

Thanks in advance

Nick

Family sponsorship class
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigra...-apply-who.asp

If your aunt has family in Canada she cannot sponsor you. You can get points for a relative in Canada, but thats about it.
Immigration categories http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.asp

As pp said, unless your Aunt is on her own in Canada (and I'm assuming not as you refer to 'her family') then she can't sponsor you I'm afraid.

Details on business immigration is on this link: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigra...ness/index.asp You will need to invest several hundred thousands dollars from the sound of things and I also seem to recall from other posts that you have to employ a certain number of Canadian citizens but you'd need to look that up. But definitely possible if you have the money and experience.

As for your question about timeframe, according to the CIC website business visas are taking between 29 and 66 months at the moment to process so taking into account time to get all your paperwork together it looks as if the quickest you could be here is 2 1/2 years and possibly as long as 6 years. Do bear in mind that that might well be underestimated, the CIC website also says that permanent residency visas are taking between 31 and 38 months to process but BE members know that it's more like 5 years plus!!

Hope that helped a bit, probably not the encouraging news you were hoping for but read the Wiki at the top for more info and also the CIC website. Best of luck.

You are wrong. There are several ways of going business and one is self employed and do not need several 100 thuousands of dollars nor do you need to employ x people.

Although it does help.

The Community Identified Provincial route in Nova Scotia takes 6- 8 months. Buisiness people are exactly who they are looking for. Application is free. We came this route.

Another intriguing way of starting a business in Canada is to do so by way of a work permit.

R I C H, one of our BE members who owns an equestrian centre near Kamloops, BC, did this.

He and his wife submitted applications for permanent residence visas via the skilled worker route. But then they got tired of waiting, so they came to Canada as visitors. While they were here, R I C H applied for a work permit on the basis that he was going to start a business. He had to submit a business plan and I'm not sure what else. He was granted the work permit. If I remember correctly, his wife has a spousal open work permit.

I personally think this approach is not without risks, and I take my hat off to Mr. and Mrs. R I C H for having the ba11s to do it. But, by golly, they pulled it off.

Self employed is aimed at a very narrow group though: Applicants must meed one of the following criteria

* participation at a world-class level in cultural activities or athletics
* farm management experience or
* self-employment in cultural activities or athletics.

Can I ask a bit more about this as I've read you talking about it lots and am intrigued? I understand that you have to go and integrate into the community and then get letters, references, etc, to prove you have done so before you can apply for this route of PNP. Is that right? Is the 6-8 months you mentioned the time that it takes to get the visa or that you have to spend in the community before applying, or both?

If so, do you just have to live off your savings until you've got the visa as presumably you can't work before that? So 6-8 months of not working until you can start applying for jobs and then just hoping that you get one, is that right? Or am I missing something? It seems awfully risky to me and I certainly wouldn't do it but then I have two children so couldn't take that chance. Perhaps it works for some people that don't have a family and can afford to wait for a job and take the risk that they might not find one. But I can't imagine it suiting that many people - unless I've completely misunderstood it? I'm thinking that I must have done so can you explain it a bit for me? Thanks for your help.

I take it your parent (child of citizens?) was never a citizen, and that you were never one either?

Christmasoompa, I've taken the liberty of copying and pasting your post into the thread about the Nova Scotia Community Identified Stream.

Thanks Judy! Hopefully I'll find out a bit more about it. It's not a route we need to take but I'm just intrigued.

Nice summary.

I'm glad you like my balls Judy

hi i realize this is an old post, but i would like to know a bit more about the process R I C H went through... what sort of documents did you have to show and that sort of thing...

im interested in starting a buisness in canada, alberta. and this seems like the perfect way on doing it, two birds with one stone sort of deal.