By Piyushi Dhir
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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Last week, I told you about our move to Canada. Our arrival, however, is the culmination of a long and arduous journey, one that began years ago. I want to share this story with you to motivate you to fight for your dreams, like we did, and to encourage you to take that occasional leap […]
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Every now and then, one makes a fresh start in life. You start a new job or you get married or you change cities. I have made many a change in my life too, starting from very early years since my father was in a transferable job. Later, it was for study and work. I […]
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