Hi everyone Does anybody have experience with this scheme? is it difficult to obtain? I am a strategic management consultant working in a fortune 500 company in new york. I want to move to our office in Australia. I have a bachelor's degree, 3 years work experience already and have a salary of >110K...

Hi everyone. I am working for a U.S. based firm in New York under H1-B visa. I want to immigrate to Canada under Federal Skilled Worker program and transfer to my company's Canada office. I understand that the Federal Skilled Worker application process may take around 1-1.5 years to complete. I am c...

Hi sitmood According to processing times posted by the CIC themselves at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/times-int/02a-skilled-fed.html#west your application from Buffalo is likely to take 19 to 39 months. I would suspect it would take closer to the shorter timeframe (~1-1.5 years) if it's a...

Hi everyone, I will be moving to Canada with PR next year. I will be working with a Canadian company (to which I am transferring from US) during that time. The nature of my work will involve frequent business trips to USA and possibly Europe on various consulting assignments. Therefore I expect that...

Hi, I am a Turkish citizen currently resident in USA under H1-B visa. I wasn wondering if it is possible for me to obtain EC following HSMP approval in USA as well or do I HAVE TO go back to Turkey for the application? The BritainUSA website appears to allow online visa applications from non-US nati...

Hello everyone Thanks a lot for all the kind replies. I think I will try to apply with Arranged Employment option and hope that it speeds up the process a bit. I have done a little research about it myself also and I would like to share it, too: I found an an encouraging government statement regardi...

Hi Jes2Jes Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it You are lucky to apply through Bufallo since others in Asia and some African countries have to wait for a minimum of 5 years to get to the Initial Assessment. Check which country you come from and if Vienna is your local CIC offi...

Hello everyone. This is my first post to this forum. I am an Eastern European citizen currently working in a US company in H1-B status. I am considering to immigrate to Canada in Skilled Worker Federal status. According to the CIC Self-Assessment Tool (at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/assess/...