Normally you would hear of people fleeing to America. Blame it on the melting American economy, but now you hearing of people heading to work in Canada.
The unstable U.S economy is driving an increased number of Americans to search for better employment opportunities up north. Citizenship & Immigration Canada say that the number of Americans entering Canada as foreign workers has doubled between 2008 and 2010.
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama will unveil a plan to reduce the unemployment rate across the country. A stimulus that will include, money to refurbish schools and provide state aid for teachers and first responders, and tax incentives for small businesses to hire the long-term unemployed and military veterans, which to me is basically another gamble with $445 billion dollars that can only increase what is already a sky-high U.S debt.
Canada was lucky to have escaped the economic meltdown, and that is primarily due to Ottawa who was committed to refusing deregulation of the banking sector.
Immigration lawyers and consultants working in the Windsor-Detroit area are claiming an increase of business from American clients who have secured job offers in Canada and are applying for work permit and permanent residency.
Americans make up the second-largest group of foreign workers in Canada, behind Filipinos, most of who are nannies and caregivers. But there isn’t just an increase in American foreign workers; we are seeing a greater number of American students coming to learn in Canadian post-secondary institutions.
Even tuition, at 3 or 4 times the rate for Canadian students, American students are choosing Canadian schools for financial reasons, they are still a fraction of the cost of the majority of U.S. post-secondary institutions.
Although there are many traveling to Canada for work, there are those Americans who have been unemployed since 2008 and are still hoping that they can find a Canadian employer who will sponsor them. Many of these people find themselves stuck with the most common dilemma: in order to get a work visa, you must have a job offer. But in order to get a job offer, you need a work visa.
In Canada, to apply for a work permit (work visa), foreign workers must first secure a job offer from a Canadian employer. Once a job offer has been presented, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) will make the determination of whether a visa should be issued or not.
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