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agoodwinsmithI have ranted this rant at length and in various places, and self-interested fuckwittery being what it is, I will no doubt rant this rant again.
If you wish to immigrate to Canada, get your professional credentials sorted out BEFORE you leave your home country. I mean this.
Contact the organization in Canada that has the power to prevent you from working (say: the College of Physicians of BC, or the College of Registered Nurses of BC, or any other professional body that holds the whip hand over your future) BEFORE, BEFORE, BEFORE you apply to immigrate to Canada. There are application processes, and they are lengthy and expensive. There are unbelievable conditions that you will have to satisfy. Learning English will be the least of your problems - and I'm not pretending that learning a second language is easy; I only know a first one.
In the great by and by, when you finally belong to the Canadian professional organization, it will be an amazing asset in your search for work. Until you belong to the Canadian professional organization, you are the enemy and no one will help you (those of us who want to don't know how, and those of us who know how don't want to).
BEFORE you leave your country, get your current professional organization to assist you to negotiate with the professional organization in Canada. Once you have left your country, they won't be interested in helping you.
I know that Canada's immigration policy gives extra "points" to people who have various skills or professions that are in low supply in Canada. Once you are here, Canada's Immigration department will not help you deal with the Canadian professional organizations.
In the past ten weeks of my current short contract, I have seen doctors, engineers, registered nurses, pharmacists, dentists, dental surgeons, and gynecologists from India, Romania, Philippines, Sweden, China, and Chile to name just a few. Every single one of them has been stalled and stymied by the professional organization they need to belong to in order to practise their field in BC.
Yes, for each one of them, English is an issue - but it ain't by a fat nautical mile the biggest problem.
If you wish to immigrate to Canada, get your professional credentials sorted out BEFORE you leave your home country. I mean this.
Contact the organization in Canada that has the power to prevent you from working (say: the College of Physicians of BC, or the College of Registered Nurses of BC, or any other professional body that holds the whip hand over your future) BEFORE, BEFORE, BEFORE you apply to immigrate to Canada. There are application processes, and they are lengthy and expensive. There are unbelievable conditions that you will have to satisfy. Learning English will be the least of your problems - and I'm not pretending that learning a second language is easy; I only know a first one.
In the great by and by, when you finally belong to the Canadian professional organization, it will be an amazing asset in your search for work. Until you belong to the Canadian professional organization, you are the enemy and no one will help you (those of us who want to don't know how, and those of us who know how don't want to).
BEFORE you leave your country, get your current professional organization to assist you to negotiate with the professional organization in Canada. Once you have left your country, they won't be interested in helping you.
I know that Canada's immigration policy gives extra "points" to people who have various skills or professions that are in low supply in Canada. Once you are here, Canada's Immigration department will not help you deal with the Canadian professional organizations.
In the past ten weeks of my current short contract, I have seen doctors, engineers, registered nurses, pharmacists, dentists, dental surgeons, and gynecologists from India, Romania, Philippines, Sweden, China, and Chile to name just a few. Every single one of them has been stalled and stymied by the professional organization they need to belong to in order to practise their field in BC.
Yes, for each one of them, English is an issue - but it ain't by a fat nautical mile the biggest problem.
