Thanks Deeaar.
We're planning to leave by April next year. We want to let the winter pass since we have kids, the abrupt change may be hard for them to adjust. Second, we want to be prepared as much as possible. We're researching all we can do here in the phils before we leave like professional licensing requirements(my wife and I are engineers), drivers license requirements, resume preparations (Canadian resumes are different from here in the phils), work referrals, etc.. It will be hard if you find out you need a certain document from you country of origin and you're already there in Canada. And of course, we also have to settle some things here at home(sell properties, business and investments, current jobs, etc..).
Once you get your visa/medical request I suggest you attend the seminars like CIIP and COA (they're very informative). CIIP creates a plan for you to follow and connects you to actual contacts in Canada like Community Colleges and Immigrant serving agencies and a lot more. We are already communicating with those contacts through email. CIIP also has one-on-one counselling schedules for the attendees to attend to your specific concerns. Some of the attendees do not yet have a home to stay when they will arrive, CIIP can give out specific contacts in Canada (if available, which are CIIP graduates also) that can help them. The COA seminar gives you booklets and a list of all the websites/information you need to prepare.
Hope this helps.
We're planning to leave by April next year. We want to let the winter pass since we have kids, the abrupt change may be hard for them to adjust. Second, we want to be prepared as much as possible. We're researching all we can do here in the phils before we leave like professional licensing requirements(my wife and I are engineers), drivers license requirements, resume preparations (Canadian resumes are different from here in the phils), work referrals, etc.. It will be hard if you find out you need a certain document from you country of origin and you're already there in Canada. And of course, we also have to settle some things here at home(sell properties, business and investments, current jobs, etc..).
Once you get your visa/medical request I suggest you attend the seminars like CIIP and COA (they're very informative). CIIP creates a plan for you to follow and connects you to actual contacts in Canada like Community Colleges and Immigrant serving agencies and a lot more. We are already communicating with those contacts through email. CIIP also has one-on-one counselling schedules for the attendees to attend to your specific concerns. Some of the attendees do not yet have a home to stay when they will arrive, CIIP can give out specific contacts in Canada (if available, which are CIIP graduates also) that can help them. The COA seminar gives you booklets and a list of all the websites/information you need to prepare.
Hope this helps.
