Are you suitable for immigration? Some people returned to China in less than half a year, while others were getting better and better...
chose to immigrate and had a son who was in elementary school.
Is immigration life really that beautiful?
In addition to specific life details, such as food, shopping, transportation, housing, medical care, education, work, financial sources, parents' reunion, etc., you can speak with data.
In addition, there are some complex feelings, how to describe it? I like to say in a general way: Immigration has begun my second life.
"Beijing drift" 16 years later, I started to "add the drift". To be honest, when I first came to Canada, I didn't feel it was more difficult than when I first started to move to Beijing.
The same thing between the second and the first life ("Beijing drift") is that they both start from scratch; the difference is that I am no longer the tender green onion from twenty years ago - even if I have not grown into a good tree, I am still qualified to be an old onion.
Although the ignorant and fearless courage when he was just starting out, his energy to stay up all night and his memory to remember are no longer there, he has experience and tolerance, and is more tenacious.
Therefore, it feels easier to deal with various challenges and strangeness in the new world.
Immigrants' life trajectory is actually the same. If we summarize the status of immigration, it can be summarized as has come, left, and left .
The stay and departure of immigrants can be regarded as a typical representative of the siege stories. According to the analysis of the real stories of the immigrant friends around me, I divided the status after immigration into five types.
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1multiple reflow ratio in one year is as high as 50%
The first type is immigration is a mess.
After just immigrating or living for a while, I found that it was not the same as I imagined, or I felt that I could not adapt at all, so I quickly returned to China. There are many people here.
At the beginning, when I heard that I was going to immigrate, my relatives and friends reported several negative news.
The best sister told me that her relatives had applied for Canadian immigration ten years ago. Unfortunately, I went there for two months and found that everything was difficult.
When I was in China, my relatives and husbands were both company managers, but when I went to a new place, I couldn’t understand anything, and I didn’t know anything, and it was difficult to find a job.
The husband finally found a job, but gave up because he couldn't drive.
The couple didn't think Vancouver is a paradise on earth. Instead, they felt that "they belong to them, I have nothing". They returned home in less than two months and would never come again.
A middle school classmate who is familiar with me introduced the story of his college classmate. His college classmate is a cardiac surgeon in Beijing and is quite famous for surgery.
Because North America requires doctors to have a local license, and the local license needs to be returned to school for one or two years before they can get the exam, the cardiac surgeon found that he could not even have a veterinarian, so he returned to China after a month of arrival. There is also an extreme case in
. After the couple came together, the husband was extremely uncomfortable and returned to China, encouraging his wife to stay and stick to it.
Not long after, my husband filed for divorce, but not long after, my husband got married with a third party who had been disconnected.
They didn't bring much money when they came. After her husband returned, he stopped sending money. The woman had to survive tenaciously with the 200 Canadian dollars in her pocket.
Now she speaks English as well as locals. She bought a house and a car, fell in love with photography, and started a small business.
When she told me this story, I couldn't help but feel that her ex-husband's immigration seemed to pave the way for divorce and remarriage, but she didn't want to think too badly about people.
These people leave when they come, and are generally skilled immigrants who have obtained immigration qualifications without spending much time and money. Those who spend millions of RMB (now tens of millions) to invest in immigrants usually at least keep their children and keep their immigrant status and then return.
My loan manager, accountant who reports the accounting, and parents of the students my husband teaches all immigrated with their parents in middle school. When they were in college, their parents would not retain their return or the maple leaf card expired, but they would stay in Canada to study and live and apply for naturalization.
It can be seen that things that are hard-won (buyed for a lot of money, come forward after hard work, and get obtained after hard work) (immigration status) are known to cherish, and vice versa.
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while complaining while not leaving
second type, and stayed with complaints.
stayed to live, but kept complaining, as if he was forced to stay here.
complaints are generally divided into two categories.
A class is to see the prosperity of the motherland and the economy taking off, and the classmates and colleagues who stayed in China have developed, and they feel the complaints that they feel lost.
Generally the conversation starts with showing off the successful status of relatives and friends in China, followed by "if I didn't leave at the beginning", "if I stay", and then criticizing the current "tragic life".
Common words are: "Although our house is big, it is a house of two or three hundred square meters, but the house price cannot be raised! In the future, if you sell a house and want to retire, isn't you still not rich?
Look at Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the house price! Then sell one house is one!"
If it stops here, it is considered a personal reflection, but they often unwilling to pull the audience in, and they will say:
"Look, for example, if you don't come here, you will definitely find a teaching position in a domestic university, so why teach children Chinese here?"
or more "sharp" comments on other people's lives, "Old Ma is like this now, and he is still busy and asking for money. How can he be a CEO in China?"
The question is, who told him that he chose to stay in China, and he "definitely" can achieve their wishes?
Has he asked them what they thought about when talking about the object? They may have never analyzed and thought carefully, but are just willing to indulge in their own imagination and complain endlessly.
Another type of complaint is more "high-end" and has nothing to do with material life, but rather metaphysically focusing on "cultural comparison".
Common sayings:
"Western people are snobbish! Don't look at everyone they usually smile when they see, but in fact, how do you comment on you in your heart!
discriminates against Chinese people - that's for sure!
discriminates against Chinese people - that's for sure! No need to think about this.
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Don’t think that domestic taxi drivers scold the Three Character Classic. Westerners here also have swearing, but they just don’t say it clearly!
What’s the best here? Yes, the scenery is good, the environment is good, the air is good, and there are few people. But it’s lonely! Everyone looks good, but who talks to you? Even if there is communication, there is cultural barrier. "
The world is there, people’s hearts and opinions are different.
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back and forth, wanting to take into account both ends of
, with regrets, I have to leave.
Among the returned immigrants I have come into contact with, this type is the subject.
Netizens sell second-hand furniture in WeChat groups, which states that "the money is spent, and they have to flow back."
Someone asked if even the house was sold, and the answer was: I won’t sell the house, and I plan to come back to live one day after making money.
Neighbor J will also return for a while during the summer vacation. Her eldest child graduated from high school this year and will go to Toronto to go to college.
Her husband is still working in China, and J's father passed away. She wanted to take her second son back to accompany her mother and reunite with her husband for several years.
However, my husband's maple leaf card has just been replaced this year, and they are confident that their whole family will move back within three or four years.
At that time, the second child was also in the tenth or eleventh grade of high school, which was a critical period for preparing to apply for college.
I met my girlfriend G, who I came almost at the same time as me. I am going back this summer vacation.
Her husband is doing better and better in China. He is reluctant to quit, whether from the perspective of salary or sense of accomplishment.
She is really hard to raise two children in Canada alone, and long-term separation is not good for family stability.
When she first immigrated, she had the mentality of "squatting in immigration supervision ".
But after coming here for the past few years, she has truly fallen in love with this country. Not only do you enjoy the good things here, but you also really care about local interests.
When I heard that Canada's proud TIM HOTTEN coffee chain was acquired by American companies, she was as frustrated as a local native. Emotionally, she had regarded Canada as her own place of residence.
However, considering that she was separated from her relatives in reality, she had to leave.
G houses are not rented or sold. She wants to take her children back every summer vacation. As for how many years I will go back, it is still unknown. There are many people like G who go back after naturalization.
Many people concentrate on staying as G thought, and immediately return after taking his passport. G's neighbor Y is like this. After
Y came, she urged her husband to come and stay with her soon.
lived for three years and applied for naturalization immediately. However, for some convenience in China, her husband was not naturalized, only she and her children were naturalized.
Before he was about to become naturalized, Y cast a net to find a job in the country. After naturalization, the family of three set off immediately.Y rented out the house and said that he would not come back within eight years, that is, before high school. This is very common situation. Not only Chinese immigrants, but also immigrants from other countries. They all leave with the wish to come back.
But as the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes, and there are inevitably those who are stuck in various reasons and cannot be recovered. Therefore, the Immigration Bureau of believes that only those who stay for more than five years can stay for a long time.
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After immigration, a new chapter was opened.
The fourth type, after immigration, it turned around gorgeously.
I am not humble, I will be one of them. Before I came, I was engaged in business activities, and now I am a "writer" and scholar who specializes in sitting at home, and I have also changed my career.
This is of course inseparable from my hard work for six years of PhD, and is also related to immigration - some of my writing content, including this article, are all due to my thoughts on life in Vancouver.
I also experienced the benefits of differentiated survival again.
When you are a little green in the green, although you can feel safe, it is not prominent, and when it becomes a little red, you have a better chance of being discovered.
For example, in China, I can only be one of the countless doctors in ancient literature, but here, the doctoral doctors in ancient Chinese literature in Vancouver can get the absolute number of .
Although there are fewer opportunities to need a doctorate in ancient literature here, I have a greater possibility to get those rare opportunities.
My husband is now a Chinese personal trainer, and he enjoys it.
Previously, his ancient literary and historical cultivation and his talent for telling stories could only be used in the cultivation of his son, and now he can be used in teaching.
students all like him very much, and he gradually became famous. The municipal library next door has also invited him to hold voluntary lectures on Chinese literature and history many times.
"Gorgeous turn" is also a common phenomenon for immigrants who stayed there.
Most immigrants come and it is difficult to return to their old careers and face the choice of new careers.
Some people feel that it is difficult to find a job, while others feel that there are large space and many opportunities.
For example, the cardiac surgeon mentioned above, because after returning, they had children at home and were twins. They faced the difficulty of raising a child from one to three, and finally chose to return to Canada.
After returning this time, the cardiac surgeon didn't even consider the veterinarians, so he simply bought a small supermarket and became the owner.
And Lao Ma in the above article speculated on real estate for several years after immigrating. He felt it was boring, so he studied electrical engineering and became a professional electrician.
He doesn't feel that he is not as good as before. On the contrary, he said that he was the CEO in China, but his liver was ruined when he socialized and drank every day.
In addition to being a little arrogant in the company, he still has to pay a smile and ask people for relationships and look for their expressions.
And everyone is equal here, let alone electricians, even if they collect garbage, they can still have dignity.
He takes jobs everywhere every day, helping others solve difficulties through his intelligence and skills, and he feels very accomplished.
We all have similar tempers and all believe that immigration is giving ourselves new opportunities in a brand new world. As long as you work hard, you can always find a new direction that suits you.
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After immigrating, he surpassed the domestic career
, and set a new high after immigration.
After immigrating, he can overcome language barriers, cultural differences, and lack of connections, and can also make his new career surpass his achievements in China. It is really not easy.
However, there are many people who have reached this level.
Pei came two years earlier than me, and she also lived in Vancouver with her two children. Her husband was doing business in China. After Mei came, she suddenly realized that she was very interested in real estate and had spare money in her hands.
relies on the advantage of extremely low interest rates in local real estate loans. Within a few years, she has made a lot of money from buying a house for rent to buying land to building a new house. In addition, she is lucky enough to catch up with the real estate boom in Greater Vancouver in the past two years.
And her husband saw that Mei's real estate income was much higher than the results of her hard work in China, so he gradually contracted his domestic business and used both his funds and energy to support Mei's development.
Now they stay in Vancouver all year round, usually relying on remote control of the phone, and only return to China during the summer vacation to guide their business personally.
Two children participated in ice hockey training in Canada and had outstanding results. The boss was just in junior high school and a scout came to inquire.
senior H, from undergraduate to doctoral degree, is a tutor of a prestigious university and a famous university. Before going abroad, he was an associate professor at a university and is about to be evaluated as a professor. The reason why
came out is that H feels that it is meaningless to see the head at a glance in the future. Second, H once had a short marriage history and was getting older, so it was almost impossible to find a peer remarriage in the country.
is the opposite of me who became a monk halfway and always wanted to find opportunities to teach in college. She was determined to give up her teaching position and did not want to do research anymore.
When I was writing my thesis, she went to take the real estate license. Hard work pays off. A year later, H became an excellent real estate agent and unexpectedly gained a satisfactory marriage.
She said that she didn't expect that after she came out, she would not be a problem with age and divorce.
My husband's friend Lao An was in the construction business when he was in China. Seeing that there were more and more bad debts, he moved his family without hesitation after getting a Canadian immigration visa.
Lao An's wife was lucky enough to find her job after half a year. Lao An was under much less pressure and began to think about what she liked.
He opened a printing consumables store, and during this time he also came into contact with local Chinese clubs and joined the clubs. Later, Lao An worked as a Chinese community newspaper and established an international student guidance association, which also accepted international students.
Gradually, Lao An became a small leader of local Chinese, gained a certain social reputation, and his income became richer.
has been here for eight years. Lao An has never returned to China. His parents took turns to come over to visit relatives on vacation. Because he was too busy, he claimed to be "the third most busy person in Canada."
When I opened a printing consumables store, Lao An became obsessed with coins collection because of the cash every day, and then entered the collection of Western porcelain.
Lao An is familiar with the discount dates of major local antique stores, and regularly goes to antique stores to Taobao, and occasionally shows off his new treasures.
Because I want to check these antique materials, Lao An's English has also made great progress.
There are endless stories about immigration. New immigrants come every day, and immigrants leave every day.
Data on mainland Chinese immigrants in North America say that there are millions of huge numbers, so there are millions of different stories.
But no matter whether you stay or not, as long as you choose carefully, it is right.
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Popular immigration projects
For most Chinese people, projects with low threshold, low cost, good educational resources, and high overall cost-effectiveness are the first choice. So today I will recommend Alberta employer guarantee immigration projects.
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Immigrate to this province! The highest income, the least tax burden, the housing prices are cabbage, the first-class education, and the simple immigration, I would like to ask if you come?
The world's most livable city: Canada is shortlisted for three cities, Calgary ranked third, surpassing Toronto and Vancouver!
01 Project Advantages
No scoring is required. If you meet the conditions, you can apply.
has a low threshold. High school education, IELTS as low as CLB4.
, fast. The immigration cycle is about 2 and a half years.
good benefits. One person applies for family immigration.
low cost of living. The minimum hourly wage is 15 Canadian dollars, and the tax savings are as low as 0. Although it ranks the fourth largest city in Canada, housing prices are cabbage. First-class educational resources.
has a good environment. One of the three Canadian Prairie provinces, it has a beautiful natural environment and rich resources.
02 Application requirements
received long-term and full-time job opportunities from qualified employers in Alberta, and their positions were technical positions;
High school education or above;
NOC 0, Class A, B language CLB 5, NOC C, Class D CLB 4
related work experience, some positions are not limited to their original occupations.
Fengcheng International is a Canadian local immigration company headquartered in Calgary. It has a large number of high-quality local employer resources and can help applicants solve these two core difficulties.
Before entering the country, Fengcheng International can match the most suitable positions for customers, assist customers in preparing for the employer's interview, and help applicants obtain the employer's real job invitation and a positive labor market assessment (LMIA) as soon as possible. That is, the two major problems of employers and work have been solved before entering the country.
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