Nurse Couple Immigrating; Can we leave the kids?

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me and my wife are both nurses educated here in the philippines.

just recently we got our canadian immigrant visa and are given till august 2012 to leave for canada. originally we wanted our kids to travel with us for the initial landing. but to be very practical about it, we're thinking of leaving our kids first and just let their immigrant visa expire for the meantime.

our new plan is for just me and my wife to land in canada first so as not to let our visas expire, and then wife will stay in canada to try and become a nurse and i have to go back to work here in the philippines while supporting my wife with the finances for the bridging program and the CRNE.

in the original plan, the kids were to fly back to the philippines with me after a brief landing because they both are enrolled already in school so they need to go back.

i'm thinking since wife and me will still maintain our canadian permanent resident status, it will be easier in the future to re-apply our kids immigrant visas when we finally decide to stay in canada for good. with this plan, we're going to save on the plane tickets for the kids which will total to US$3,000+.

can you comment on our plan. and do you see unforseen negative repurcussions that we failed to consider?

thanks in advance.

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Probably better to speak to a immigration consultant. There will be issues to face if you let the kids visas expire, you will have to apply all over again for them and they will require a medical. I think you will have to decide whether cost will outweigh the trip they can take to activate PR.

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Sounds like the "astronaut plan" and residence of convenience. The average Canadian is pretty fed up with the immigration department for allowing this to continue to happen. The Lebanon crisis a couple of summers back drew a lot of negative attention to families which do this.

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fiona59,

Sorry if you feel that way. Not all stories in migrating to Canada are successful ones so please don't hate that we are being careful about it. You can call it what you want but we're just really covering all the bases before we take the complete plunge. We'd rather be astronauts or residents of convenience than end up being sorry for my family.

silverdragon102,

as always, thank you for your advice. i actually was intending to email the embassy regarding it but i tried to get your advice on it first. i always know i'll get an objective comment from you. so thank you again.

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Embassy will really not be able to advice you better to speak to someone who knows immigration

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I am from the USA, my father immigrated to the USA. His family gave up everything to make the move.Most Canadians share this similar route, they took the plunge without covering there bases,i guess when you have everything to loose you are motivated to make it work.Also when my family came they worked jobs that were low paying but grateful for having a new home.I can see why some Canadians are fed up, how motivated will you be to have a nice home or good school system when your kids are not with you.

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Also remember residency does have requirements on how much time you need to spend in Canada to maintain Pr

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me and my wife are both nurses educated here in the philippines.

just recently we got our canadian immigrant visa and are given till august 2012 to leave for canada. originally we wanted our kids to travel with us for the initial landing. but to be very practical about it, we're thinking of leaving our kids first and just let their immigrant visa expire for the meantime.

our new plan is for just me and my wife to land in canada first so as not to let our visas expire, and then wife will stay in canada to try and become a nurse and i have to go back to work here in the philippines while supporting my wife with the finances for the bridging program and the CRNE.

in the original plan, the kids were to fly back to the philippines with me after a brief landing because they both are enrolled already in school so they need to go back.

i'm thinking since wife and me will still maintain our canadian permanent resident status, it will be easier in the future to re-apply our kids immigrant visas when we finally decide to stay in canada for good. with this plan, we're going to save on the plane tickets for the kids which will total to US$3,000+.

can you comment on our plan. and do you see unforseen negative repurcussions that we failed to consider?

thanks in advance.

hi.. i cant pm you.. may i kindly know your timeline and the funds one need to secure for the show money, immigrant visa, crne and bridging?

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hi.. i cant pm you.. may i kindly know your timeline and the funds one need to secure for the show money, immigrant visa, crne and bridging?

Cost for registering with a provincial college of RN will vary depending on province but costs will be on their website and this will also include how much it is to take CRNE (they are 2 separate fees)

Immigration costs can be found on CIC website and this will lso include amount of money you have to show in savings to meet CIC requirements

Bridging will depend on what is required

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@Silverdragon102

We are aware of the residency requirements of staying for a total of 2 out of 5 years.

@Ginger's Mom

What we plan really is for one of us to have a stable job first before the rest of the members follow suit. If other migrating families left everything behind without covering all the bases, then well and good. I respect that.

But please don't try to convince us that what you did or what others did should also be the path we should take. Maybe you need to walk in our shoes first before you get fed up with us. Yes, we will endure not to have a complete family for a certain time and that's what sacrifice is. You're lucky you don't have to go through it.

I hope those who did jump all in when their time came to migrate turned out well. And for those who didn't, keep fighting. =)

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