A new life abroad for Canadian visas and emigration assistance

To visit Canada you must be healthy and may need a doctor’s examination. You’ll also be expected to respect Canadian laws and may not be permitted to enter Canada if you have a criminal conviction.

Canada does not pay for hospital or medical services for visitors so make sure you have adequate health insurance before you leave the UK for Canada.

Why Canada?

Canadians tend to welcome newcomers and immigrants warmly as they are needed to cope with a thriving and growing economy. The accent is on skilled workers, professionals, self-employed and business investors.

There is a definite tendency for people move around a lot as they change jobs - and so transience is often the norm in the big cities. Education and schools which are regulated by the Provinces and housing facilities are second to none.

Clubs cater for most family interests – like archery, bingo, chess, embroidery, speaking French, racing motorcycles, wine tasting and more - all have a strong base of people new to any given city.

The quality of life compares very favourably with any other country in the world.

Contrast with USA and UK

Canada defines itself as quite different to the United States and Britain. In contrast to strongly regionalised USA, Canada has a strong national identity.

Living in the traditional South of the USA is also vastly different from living in Europe-looking New England, and the frontier states of the Pacific North West lead different lives, too. Quebec forms a distinct society, but links itself strongly to the US economy.

Canada is less centralised than London-focused Britain, so each Province runs many of the activities that in Europe are usually co-ordinated at a national level, most notably health-care and education. In other ways Canada seems similar to Britain; with the exception of Newfoundland, as the English-Canadian accent sounds the same from Halifax to Victoria (the latter town as British as a Canadian town could be).

Canada is proud to see itself as a bilingual, multi-ethnic country.

Canadians’ attitude to work is much removed from their southerly United States neighbours and tends to fit in their framework of life rather than directing it.

Canadians will bristle with indignation when people assume they are American (as judged by their accent).