My friend intends to travel to Canada on a visit visa and stay with his relatives (Permanent Residents). He wants to change his visitor visa to student visa or work permit from within Canada itself, basically settle down there and become permanent resident. What needs to be done and how. If you have similar experience in this regard or have heard of it, please reply.
2006-12-06 19:19:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
He will have to live in Canada for 3 full years before he can apply for citizenship and must work at least 1 year of that..I checked on moving there..If he's interested in school, let me know..I have a contact person..if not he should search the web under "ways to become a Canadian citizen" and it will tell him who to contact. gl
2006-12-07 07:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by chilover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of the school might placed up the workplace work for you. I also have a chum who replaced her status years in the past from concentrated visitor to student, yet circumstances have replaced. you truly might desire to analyze with the school, in the beginning you will possibly desire to get admitted to the school, after offering the needed information required: transcripts, economic employer information proving which you would be able to pay on your education without incurring the government any costs and a score on your English certainly the TOEFL score. After that they are going to supply you an I-20 which you may use to fill out the needed workplace work on your student visa. Now that's going to be counted with the INS, they permit you to know what else you will possibly desire to offer. optimistically you will no longer might desire to might desire to bypass back on your united states to word for the visa. each and all the terrific.
2016-10-14 04:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your best bet would be to call Immigration Canada directly to find out about this as you will not be able to get an answer you can rely on here on this forum. Your friend should NOT try to stay in Canada illegally as he will find himself jeopardizing any future chances of immigrating legally in the future. The short-term gain is not worth the long-term pain, believe me! If he stays illegally and is eventually deported, he will find it pretty much impossible to EVER come again in the future as he will have blown his chances. An illegal immigrant does not find it easy to locate "under the table" work in Canada and he would not be able to attend for post-secondary education in Canada if he does not have legal status to be here.
2006-12-06 20:08:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it can be done but knowing the way immigration operates it will probably cost ya $2000 extra dollars
2006-12-14 07:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by nbr660 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋