By Piyushi Dhir
When you move your life from one part of the world to another, you often see a very big shift in culture. You hear new languages, see new ways of life and experience new festivals. Our first big move from India to Africa was rather cushioned because my husband’s employers housed us Indian families in […]
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As I was mentioning in my last post, a lot of new parents have been contacting me after reading my toddler’s immigration story. These are Canadian Permanent Residents who’ve had babies outside the country and are struggling with paperwork to bring their little ones to Canada. While exchanging stories back and forth and figuring out […]
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A couple of months ago, I had blogged about our immigration story in order to share our experience with the world. In particular, I had mentioned details about our son’s case, since he was born outside Canada (a non-PR) and faced difficulty getting a tourist visa to join us. For those of you who read […]
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Just a couple of days ago I came across some statistics that revealed that almost half of the immigrants coming into Canada are Indian citizens. Wow, I thought to myself, a lot of us seem desperate to leave our native country and get here. Yet despite the charm of Canada, there is one complaint that […]
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A large chunk of Toronto’s population today is immigrant population. They may have come years ago, decades ago or centuries ago, but each immigrant brought with himself a part of his culture, cuisine and tradition. And this makes Toronto an amazing place to experience the world. You don’t need to travel miles across the Canadian […]
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When you take up a project as big as immigrating to a new country, you know that not everything would go smoothly. We anticipated and faced roadblocks with some of the larger issues like getting permanent residence and then a visa for our son and finding a house for us to live in. We also […]
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You’ve read our roller-coaster story of getting a Canadian Permanent Residence, almost losing it and then, finally arriving at our destination for good. Anyway, once we did indeed get here and started assimilating into the Canadian culture, we faced a series of hilarious “adjustment-issues’. Well, they did not always elicit humour at the very moment […]
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Flashback. We got Permanent Residence for Canada, we did the initial landing and we returned to Ivory Coast. We even had a lovely baby boy. Two years on, when we decided to take up the Canada ticket, we realized that our baby was going to be refused entry into the country. This was November 2017. […]
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If you’ve been reading about our immigration to Canada, you already know all about How We Got Permanent Residence for Canada and our Immigration-Vacation to Toronto. After completing our landing procedure and receiving our PR cards, we had about three years’ buffer to make a decision. One’s PR status can be extended after five years, […]
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Vacations come and vacations go. Some meet your expectations, some disappoint and some surprise you. Toronto was a surprise package for us. If you have been reading my series of posts on Canada, you would already know about How We Got Permanent Residence for Canada and also about our arrival and New Beginning in Canada. […]
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