As of this morning, yours truly is now a Permanent Resident of Canada. The card is styling with a high-tech bar code, picture where I can’t smile so I look like a thug, and of course a glossy embossed Maple Leaf. For the Americans, this is the equivalent of having a Green Card. Kiki’s card here pretty much looks like mine except mine is a lighter color and has some ugly honkin’ (in both senses) Canadian Geese across the top.
So in about 2 years if I can pass a history test and sing the National Anthem, I’ll become bi…..uh bi-national that is.
Congrats. I’m in that process meself.Report
How long did it take you from aplication to getting your card?Report
Traitor.Report
Jealous much?Report
I did an in-country application (via spouse sponsorship) and it took something like 14-16 months from sending in the application to today. It took me about 3-4 months beyond that to get everything together for the application. It’s not easy. But residency is much harder than citizenship. Once you clear the residency status (and actually live in the country), then it’s pretty smooth sailing to dual citizenship.Report
“via spouse sponsorship”
Canadians, everyone should have one. Just got hitched to mine yesterday.Report
mazel tov!!!Report
“So in about 2 years if I can pass a history test and sing the National Anthem, I’ll become bi…..uh bi-national that is.”
If you would like to be bi-curious, you’ll have to sing a rather different kind of song.Report
Chris – you forgot the accent there…Report
I didn’t forget it so much as I didn’t know how to input it and was too lazy to try to find out.Report
Ok, I guess you can get by without it for residency, but you’ll have to put it on for citizenship…Report
However much a good idea it may seem at the time, you need to avoid the poutine at McDonald’s.Report
honest to FSM, I have no idea how they eat that stuff. This is one element of this country I will never get. I wouldn’t eat poutine unless my life depended on it–and to be fair you probably won’t live long after eating the stuff so it may be a six o’ one half a dozen the other kinda thing.Report
Poutine is a pernicious phenomena that crept out of Quebec to corrode the arteries of Canadians everywhere. In short, blame the French.Report
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there Tex!
I am *NOT* saying “avoid poutine”. I’m saying “avoid the poutine at McDonald’s”.
Get the poutine from the little mustachioed guy with the accent pushing a handcart at the park. That’s the poutine you want.Report