Immigration is a life altering decision which involves an investment of an entire lifetime worth of savings. So, it is important to think at least ten times before taking the plunge. Be it any developed nation such as the United States, United Kingdom or Canada, a strategy has to be formed keeping all the loopholes and the Plan Bs ready. Research and answering all your questions is the key to have a successful immigration. The research never goes waste…if you do not believe it now; time would surely prove it to you. How to go about the process effectively and what to do – all depends on your initial research. So, your first goal should be to have an objective to immigrate. And you should be very clear about it.

So, how would you go about this objective? In other words, why do you want to immigrate? The reasons can be many based on your purpose. Some such instances include:

• I want to pursue my higher studies at a subsidized fee in the United States.
• I would like to invest in the US economy and start a business.
• I am looking forward to better work and life opportunities in Canada. So, I want to immigrate to Canada.
• My company wants me to go to the UK and set up a new office but doing so is better if I am an immigrant and a permanent resident. That gives me much leverage with financial institutions and local business community.
• My husband is a citizen of Australia and so, I would want to immigrate to live with him.
• Quality of life issues such as law and order problems, pollution and corruption are important and therefore, I must migrate to a place where systems work and people can live honorably and without fear.
• I am concerned about the future of my children

The above are few of the many reasons as to why people would want to immigrate to a developed nation. After knowing the reasons behind your immigration plan, the next step is how to go about it. For this, get informed about the kind of visa that is required and whether you are eligible for it or not, how to apply for it, the documents required, the fee that has to be paid, the various procedures that have to be followed and so on.

During the above process, it is essential that you do not get confused. To avoid this, it is best to hire a registered immigration consultant who would be able to guide you through the process. This would help clear the road map further.

It has to be noted that successful immigrants in various nations have always had clear plans which has led to the accomplishment of their goals. Thus, even a consultant would be of help only if you know what you want. Good Luck!

The Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program allows those international health professionals to apply for immigration under its category for Health Professionals who have already been working in the Canadian province as full-time, regular workers on a temporary work permit. International health professionals who intend to apply for the SINP must have worked in the province for a minimum period of 6 months.

The category of Health Professions is further divided into 3 sub-categories;

• Physicians,
• Nurses; and
• Other Health Professions

When it comes to Physicians, the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program lets the province nominate qualified physicians who meet the educational, as well as professional requirements for an employment in the province.

Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses or Psychiatric Nurses are eligible to immigrate to Saskatchewan under the sub category of Nurses of the SINP’s Health Professionals. All the applicants need to fulfill the educational and professional requirements demanded by the employment in Saskatchewan.

In order to be able to immigrate under the Other Health Professions category of the SINP, health professionals must have been working in health occupations in the province at the time of filing applications. These health occupations must be recognized by the appropriate licensing body in Saskatchewan.

In other words, applicants of the Health Professionals category are required to fulfill the following:

• They must be working in the province of Saskatchewan on a temporary work permit; and
• They must have an offer of full-time permanent employment.

For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

Through the Family Members category of the SINP, immigrants living Saskatchewan can help their family member(s), who is skilled and wants to immigrate, live and work in Saskatchewan. In other words, to be eligible to qualify for this category, international skilled workers must have a family member in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, who possesses the Canadian citizenship/PR status. Besides, the family member must have been residing in the province for a minimum period of twelve months.

Eligible family members who can help international skilled workers to immigrate and work in Saskatchewan include:

• Parents
• Siblings
• Children
• Grandparents
• Aunts/uncles
• Nieces/nephews
• First cousins
• Step-family members
• In-laws

Below are some of the eligibility criteria for the applicants of the Family Members category:

• The age of applicants must be between 18-49 years.
• Applicants must have a signed written document which serves as the evidence of support from their family member(s) living in the province of Saskatchewan.
• Applicants must have completed at least one year of post-secondary education, training or apprenticeship. They must possess a diploma; a certificate or a degree for the completion of the educational program.
• Applicants must have a minimum period of 1 year work experience in the field of their education or training.
• Applicants must have proficiency in English language to be employed in Saskatchewan.
• Applicants must possess a permanent, regular employment offer from a Saskatchewan local employer.

For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

With the Entrepreneurs category under the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program, international business people and their families can immigrate to the province and set up business or invest in some existing Saskatchewan business and take active participation in the day to day management of the business. Applicants can apply for this category under any of its two sub-categories:

• Large Scale Investor; and
• Science and Technology

Below are the eligibility criteria which SINP requires prospective applicants to meet:

• Applicants must possess personal wealth of minimum 300,000 Canadian Dollars.
• Applicants must have at least 3 years of entrepreneurial experience or management experience in some relevant business.
• Applicants must have intentions to reside in the province of Saskatchewan. They must actively invest in some provincial business.

Here are a few of the requirements that all applicants must satisfy once they are approved for SINP nomination:

• Nominees must make an active investment of 150,000 Canadian Dollars in a new or existing business in the province of Saskatchewan. In case, if a nominee owns less than one-third of the business, then his/her total investment should worth minimum1 million of Canadian Dollars.
• Nominees must take active participation in the regular management of the business.
• They must deposit 75,000 Canadian Dollars as good faith deposit.

For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

There can be two facets when we talk about the “agriculture” industry in Quebec. One is the actual agriculture and other is forestry! The best part about Quebec is that is blessed with rich and easily arable mud which makes it a perfect place to make a career in agriculture. The sub-categories are endless. Some of them are Animal agriculture, animal specialities, cash grains, chicken eggs, farm supplies, tobacco and wheat, to name a few.

In addition, the warm climate fulfils all the requirements that one needs to have a healthy crop culture in the land of Quebec, making it one of the most prolific agricultural area. People linked with agriculture can find career in the industry of dairy products, vegetables, fruit market, fish, maple syrup and foie gras, to name a few.

Coming to the aspect of forestry, Quebec offers ample scope for producing pulp, paper and lumber. Moreover, the industry of pulp and paper is a million dollar industry, hence providing so many opportunities to people intending to immigrate under such category.

The province is also attired with an extensive renewable forest resource area which means the industry is here to stay for a long time. Some of the companies linked with this profession are Bermaska Farms Inc, Entreprises Max Fried Inc, Les, Produits Bel Horizon Inc, Les, Verger Gosselin, Plouffe, Marcel, and Ferme Domino Inc, to name a few.

Know more about your chances of migrating under “agriculture industry,” kindly visit at www.abhinav.com.

According to an annual engineering survey, Australia is in short of skilled personnel in this sector which would impact on the nation’s ability to grow. This in turn would put a limit on innovations in engineering.

Consult Australia conducted the Engineering Skills Survey. Based on the findings, it has warned that the ability to design and deliver the estimated $400 billion in infrastructure would be under threat. This target is set for the next ten years. So, solutions have to be brought out with the government and the industry working towards catering to these skill shortages.

The survey projected that about three quarters of the firms agreed that they are currently experiencing critical skill shortages along with stagnation in the total number of graduates. This was because in the previous decade, there was difficulty in searching for workers to cater to these jobs.

The most impacted of all the fields in engineering is civil engineering with more than two-thirds of the firms reporting of the deficiency. This is quite an appalling situation when it comes to the amounts being spent on infrastructure by the Federal and State governments.

Apart from civil engineers, there is also a shortage for the environmental engineers in the nation with one-thirds of the firms reporting the same. This is on the high priority list of the government with respect to climate changes, energy efficiency as well as sustainability.

So, if you are an engineer intending to immigrate, this is the opportunity to apply. To know more on the same, it is best to consult an immigration and visa expert who deals with Australian immigration.

Under the Business Immigrants Stream, The British Columbia Nominee Program allows foreign entrepreneurs with experience who intend to invest in a BC business and participate in actively in the management of the business to immigrate and later become permanent residents of Canada. The BC PNP nominates individuals, first, who have the capabilities to settle themselves in the province; and secondly, they should be actively  managing a business which will benefit the province’s economy. The stream has three categories-

1. Business skills
2. Regional Business and
3. Strategic Projects

All three categories have different requirements that the BC PNP expects applicants to meet those in respect of the applicant’s personal finance; the amount of investment; region within British Columbia, as well as the number of local workers in the proposed business. Alongside, the applicants must also meet the following criteria under each category:

• The proposed business’ main objective should be profit earning from active income that comes from the supply of the business’ services and products.

• The proposed business should be contributing to the economy of the British Columbia through either of the following:
  • Boosting the exports of its services or products;
  • Increasing various activities like value-added manufacturing or processing;
  • Boosting technology commercialization
  • Boosting its research and development
  • Implementing advanced approaches to traditional businesses;
  • Providing services to an unlikely regional market; or
  • Serving British Columbia with technology and skills

To know more about the BC PNP Business Immigrants Stream, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

The Provincial Nominee Program in the Canadian province of British Columbia facilitates the province to nominate foreign immigrants in order to meet the employment requirements of the British Columbia economy and labor market. British Columbia employers are highly benefited by the program. There are two categories under which the province nominates foreign nationals to be in. They are:

• The Strategic Occupations Stream
• The Business Immigrants Stream

The British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program is also a way for foreign nationals to obtain permanent residency in Canada. In other words, when an applicant is nominated by the provincial program, he also has the greater chances of obtaining Canadian permanent residency. The nominated applicant is eligible to file for permanent residency status with the Citizenship and Immigration Canada. It is said that the provincial program is a fast-tracked way of obtaining PR in Canada, compared to any other federal immigration program.

The BC PNP allows foreign skilled workers as well as international student to immigrate under its two different streams, thereby helping them in getting the permanent residency status in Canada. Thos who wish to migrate to British Columbia as a provincial nominee must satisfy the requirements set by the PNP authorities. You might have doubts about under which stream you could immigrate to the province. To know about this and more about the British Columbia PNP, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

The Government of Australia has brought out the ANZSCO list which enlists all the occupations where in there is a short of skilled labor for the nation to contribute to the specific industry. The ANZSCO list consists of two sub-lists known as Schedule 3 and Schedule 4.

Those occupations which are present in Schedule 3 have to be applied for via the General Skilled Migrant program where as those in Schedule 4 through the Sponsored (State Nomination/Blood Relation) or under Regional Programs. In case of the occupation of electronics engineer, it falls in both the above lists which give the applicant a choice to apply via either of the two.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• To design various electronic components, industrial applications, computer circuits and systems and communication and control systems.
• Monitoring the computer installation and commissioning, communication and control systems and to cater to appropriate control and protection methods.
• Based on either optical fibre, wireless communication media or the wired ones, designing communication bearers.
• Determining and supervising the performance as well as standards pertaining to safety and for procedures related to operations, maintenance, modifications as well as repair of these systems.
• Design, develop and execute signal processing algorithms by selecting proper hardware and software.

Apart from the above, there are additional responsibilities which the professional would be expected to perform.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher education.
• In some cases, both qualification as well as relevant experience is required to qualify for the same.
• On the job training might be required in specific cases.

If you are an electronics engineer intending to immigrate to Australia for better opportunities, write to us at ajay@abhinav.com to know more on the same.

The ANZSCO list has been brought out by the Australian government which invites foreign skilled migrants to come and work in Australia. This list mentions all those occupations which are in-demand for skilled labor which the nation is short of. The ANZSCO list consists of two lists- Schedule 3 and Schedule 4.

Those applicants with their occupation falling under Schedule 3 list have to apply for immigration via the General Skilled Migrant program. However, the Schedule 4 occupations have to be applied via Sponsored (State Nomination/Blood Relation) or under Regional Programs. At the same time, the occupation of a quantity surveyor falls in both the above lists which give an option to the applicant to apply through any of the above categories.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Coordinating and guiding the labor at the site along with ensuring that the construction materials, plant and equipment are delivered. With this, laying down the programs in detail for the site activities to be carried out appropriately.
• Supervising incase of any changes in design, reviewing the cost effects, negotiating the variations related to designs, measuring as well as valuing the same.
• Examining the structural systems to get an insight into the static and dynamic loads.
• Designing the structures in such a manner that it does not bend, twist or collapse or even vibrate in unwanted ways.
• Collecting and testing rock and soil samples to study the behavior of the same when a structure is placed on it.

Apart from the above, there are additional responsibilities which the professional would be expected to perform.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher education.
• In some cases, both qualification as well as relevant experience is required to qualify for the same.
• On the job training might be required in specific cases.

If you are a quantity surveyor intending to immigrate to Australia for better opportunities, write to us at ajay@abhinav.com to know more on the same.