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How would you know? You give them permission to check when you sign up and they don't tell you who they ask what.

Basically that is true (with some exceptions, I think for diplomats and soldiers or so). There are a number of cases where children of Canadian parents have been born stateless (like a baby born in Brussels to a Canadian father and a Syrian (IIRC) mother - no Syrian citizenship because that...

Did you come in from the US? US credit histories are sometimes accepted.

Whichever country, make sure giving birth is covered by the insurance! That was good advice! Isn't the waiting period of 3 months only for people moving within Canada? When I moved to NS from abroad I was covered immediately - if I had moved in from, say, Ontario, I would have had to wait...

Do not go with any of the three large brands (unless you are a big company with good price leverage). They will lock you into an expensive 2 or 3 year contract and prices are set to fall! You will still be paying huge amounts when the price points have dropped! So don't get locked in, even if...

As for banking, I found "PC Financial" to have the cheapest options. They are a low cost brand of CIBC. Other banks tried to tell me that PC Financial does not offer special services like TFSA and RRSP or free cheques. In fact, PC Financial offers all of that for free. Of course, there are...

If you can, get an American Express card in your current country ASAP but at least three months before your leave for Canada. AMEX offers a "moving" service for Amex cards so you can obtain a Canadian Amex card based on your current credit history until you ave built your Canadian credit score...

Hi, I might be interested. I have a motorbike in Austria (Honfa CBF 125) and I'm thinking of bringing it to Halifax eventually. If you decide to get a container and could tell me how much my share would approx. be, I would see if I can find someone to drive it up to the UK. Quite the project...