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So I want to immigrate to the best damn country in the world
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For a little bit of background info, I just plan to be a Culinary Artist but would like to immigrate to America. Does anyone have experience going through the process? I've heard its extremely difficult right now, but I would just like to gain some insight.
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Out of curiosity, why do you want to move to the US?
I find the Culinary scene up here to be a bit slow compared to America. There is a type of cooking style called Molecular Gastronomy which is basically 'Science cooking' and the top restaurants in the world are located in Europe and America. Although I would do my best to try getting into one of these restaurants, the reality is that my skill level isn't as high as the requirements, so I would most likely just jump from kitchen to kitchen in the states until either I've been accepted or just get better until I get accepted at my dream job.
Now I know someone here is going to tell me I should just stay up in Canada until my skills develop to the point where I need them to be in order to get one of these jobs, but regardless many kitchens in America won't go out of their way to handle immigration paperwork for a starting Culinary Artist. My best bet (as also told from a few of my mentors and teachers up here in Edmonton) is to just work at kitchens that are close to the Molecular Gastronomy restaurants I want to get into and keep trying until they accept me.
Now I'm done my rant, so please help me come up with ways I can get down into the states without getting married or hiding in someones trunk. Just imagine me to be some form of Pixar Rat except better looking and human.
According to this FAQ, it's apparently a lot easier for a Canadian citizen to immigrate here, there are some special privileges that you get.
This is an entirely different situation. Please don't say it is easy when, for the majority, it is not. Anyone who has read H&A for a while will know that I am British in NZ on a work permit, and want to move to the USA in a couple of years.
Emigrating is a very difficult process. It is not something that the home country considers lightly. Emigrating, and being allowed the privileges of a citizen of the country, is not the same as having a work permit and simply being allowed to stay there and take jobs. Being granted a work permit is a bit easier, but it will probably come with lots of strings attached as to where you can work, how long you can work there, proof that the job you are doing couldn't have been done by citizens of the country.
However, it does look like the TN visa for Canadian citizens will be helpful, but you need to look at the limitations. It appears you need a degree of some description for a start.
Going to the UK is relatively smooth as you are a member of the commonwealth, but again, work permits will come with a lot of strings attached.
You will need to have a very good reason to go through all this. It is tiring and wears me down quite quickly.
http://travel.state.gov/
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
Summary from like two minutes worth of reading: unless you already have a job lined up, it's going to be difficult to get a visa that will allow you to work (and establish permanent resident in) the US.
No, it's because, believe it or not, we have a close relationship with Canada, and lots of agreements with them regarding these kinds of things.
IIRC, part of the reason its so difficult is because we have quotas on how many people can come from each country here. So we end up only being to accept people with things like jobs/school/family already waiting for them here.
It's pretty much the same both ways, really. If you want to move to the USA and you're Canadian, you'd be insane to move somewhere else first.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
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Unfortunately I have already completed my tenature at a culinary technical institute here in Canada. Not to brag but my ability to cook is quite advanced for my age (I had started working at my parents restarant helping around the kitchens when I was in Elementary school), and to re-take anything at an institution again is literally mental. Its not that I don't enjoy school, its that they don't teach anything out of common sense, and I usually get paired with a class whom the majority doesn't know what to do in life but "Just like to eat".
And this isn't to bash America, but from my understanding the whole romance with the country is to be able to achieve something without the bias of where you come from and who you are. I am literally chasing a dream of gaining the ability to cook with molecular gastronomy, but still don't understand how come its so hard when the whole concept (belief and morals) is the that you can achieve anything if you set your minds to it. O_o
Yet anyways, I was told today from my mother that I have an uncle on my father's side that is now a citizen in America. How does this help my chances of getting over the border?
Man, when has it ever been like that in the US in the last 20 years?
Not sure on this one; the only help I've seen relatives be is when they are immediate family or dependants.
The reality of what happens when you mix immigration with many programs using government money started to become apparent after a while, among other reasons.
It certainly won't hurt. The cousin/niece of some family friends was able to at least get some sort of permission to come over a few years ago. While she was a college student, she was going to school at a community college so I'm not sure if it was only because of a student visa.
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