GandiBaat
VIP Member
- Dec 23, 2014
- 2,990
- NOC Code......
- 2173
- App. Filed.......
- 26th September 2021
- Doc's Request.
- Old Medical
- Nomination.....
- None
- AOR Received.
- 26th September 2021
- IELTS Request
- Sent with application
- File Transfer...
- 11-01-2022
- Med's Request
- Not Applicable, Old Meds
- Med's Done....
- Old Medical
- Interview........
- Not Applicable
- Passport Req..
- 22-02-2022
- VISA ISSUED...
- 22-02-2022
- LANDED..........
- 24-02-2022
There are many reason or a combination of the reasons why people immigrate. Among them are seeking better life, better opportunities are pretty big ones and then there are people who are trying to escape something or escape a certain image. Usually when you care about later more, you tend to give your acquired citizenship a lot more importance. Otherwise, its a beaurocratic thing.I think if you have the paperwork you can identify yourself as whatever you want, it's up to you.
I would just find it a bit strange to go around identifying yourself as Canadian/American, the moment you got citizenship, because i would expect what defines your identity more is where you're from originally and where you spent your formative years. But that's just my perspective.
At the end of the day it's about where the person identifies the most with, and i understand that desire to identify more with a country where you've immigrated to which has given you greater opportunities and where you've lived for some time.
The one specification i'd make for indians is because they can't have dual citizenship, technically the moment they obtain another citizenship, they aren't Indian citizens, they are at most OCIs. So you can identify yourself as Indian but not an Indian citizen, so there are some semantics involved. It may make more sense to say they're American/Canadian from that standpoint.
I mean, I will pay all my dues to my host country, I will ensure I add value to their country (if I open business by jobs, if I am employed then by IP/patents I make, by volunteering for bear counting (yes, I want to do that once I get off my closed work permit), by volunteering for lookout for wild fires.
That said, I have always felt peace with the fact that I was born and raised in India so I have no wish to pretend to be what I am not.