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Get a passport first and then yea sure if you can. To be a downer it's almost impossible though.
It's pretty hard to immigrate here. You can't apply for refugee/asylum from the US. The Canadian populace has also made Indian immigrants their scapegoat for all of their societal woes, so there's been pressure on the government to curb immigration, and they've been doing that.
Your genuine best bet of getting into Canada would probably be through getting a student visa, and obviously university is expensive (not as expensive as the US). And I think that's being cut back on too. I think basically every other mode of immigration is like, for rich people. Or do marriage fraud ig.
Negative. I had a work colleague try that and report that it was a dead end road.
Unironically, @Aliveelectricwire@hexbear.net your best bet for immigration is to marry a Canadian citizen. Even then it's a very long, drawn-out process (my family has been through it) but with the recent caps on immigration that's probably your best bet.
Sometimes I've thought ot turning my unmarried-and-bi-and-Canadian situation into a comedy video on youtube or somewhere. "Now accepting applications from desperate Americans, line forms on the left". But nowadays that feels exploitative and not very funny.
Make the show totally fictional and then use it to fund your rescue operation.
Damn, guess my info is outdated
I would offer marriage fraud services to my comrades but apparently you do it more than once and suddenly its suspicious, smh
could you not just come in on a tourist visa and then try and live off the grid until shit hits the fan to the point where deporting you back to america becomes a lower priority? idk maybe thats unrealistic in this day and age but how hard could it be to find under-the-table or online work/roommates and get by for a while? Esp if you made some comradely friends online first before coming
ig if you think being a criminal on the run is preferable to ur current situation, but i don't really feel comfortable on advising on that lol
fair lol. gotta know the right people I guess to get advice on that. my thinking was that immigration "crimes" are not really the same as other crimes (in some countries at least). Pursued by different authorities, openly tolerated by most people, etc.
Like i said, Canadians view immigrants as the root of all ills. They super will not be chill if they learn you're an illegal immigrant regardless of race
I find that the racist shitbags tend to be the loudest. I don't think that most Canadians feel this way, we just hear the bigots most frequently because they won't shut the fuck up for five god damned minutes.
But you are correct, immigrants have been scapegoated a lot. Apparently the fact that the Canadian government hasn't been funding social services enough for decades is their fault.
I live in a racist small town so it's good to hear not everyone is like that lmao
To my limited understanding, Canada has (or had) a teacher shortage and that the work visa requirements for education are more lenient than other fields. As with most countries, a work visa -> permanent residency -> citizenship is the "easiest" path to immigration. The largest hurdle is usually finding a company to sponsor your visa.
We had a teacher shortage, and now we have funding problem because international students basically were covering 50% of university bills because their tuition was inflated so much. The feds have basically crippled foreign student intake in programs so the teacher shortage is likely to get even worse. When I attended in the mid 00s my department already wasn't allowed to print class outlines because it wasn't approved in the budget for teachers. Can't imagine it's gotten better now.