Hello friends, A year ago I'd applied to Canada for permanent residency. The process usually takes two years, but with this week's change in govt I do not expect it to happen now. My preference anyway is for Sweden. But when I researched it a year ago, it was essentially impossible for an American t...

I'm sorry, Needhelp, if what I said sounded like criticism. This was not the intent. I thought I was just stating hard facts and trying to bring you around. I think we have a cultural difference here. You feel that love should trump all, and that the law should respect that. But Western law is not n...

What Kayalami has said several times is that because she is now married, she is no longer eligible to emigrate with her parents. It's just the law. She can't move with them, and most certainly her husband can't. It is not 'immigration by association'. If she quickly gets a divorce, she may again be ...

I've inquired about this (applying under jus sanguins doctrine), and was told by the German and Swedish consulates that it must be either of my parents, if borne after 1975, or my father if borne before, who is a German national in order for me to get citizenship. However I have it on good authority...

I'm trying Canada, but it's two years' processing time. That is if I qualify as a skilled worker, but lately it looks like I won't be able to find such a job in Seattle, and so may not qualify at all. Maybe as his wife is EU, he has some sort of special 'in' to Canada. I would like to emigrate to Sw...

In researching the possibility of German citizenship, I understand that there is a protocol under the jus sanguins doctrine. Most of my ancestry is German, and I am interested in applying for citizenship. Can you please advise as to the best way forward? German citizenship is derived directly from ...

Kayalami wrote:AFAIK Germany is one of the few countries that grants citizenship to all those who are descendents of people with German citizenship i.e. jus sanguins policy. I also undertand that this may be without a limit on generations although this may have changed.

Has anyone learned more about this yet?

Yes, thanks.

Unfortunately I can't help with your question, but I am interested in Sweden as well. It seems most countries require that you have either a job offer from a company which will certify that no EU citizen can be found for the job, or that you have a family member in the destination country. My experi...

The thing about this no-fly list is there doesn't seem to be a mechanism yet to clarify or correct it. Most developed countries practice 'due process', which means that if you are a legal resident, but are thought to be on the no-fly list, you will have the opportunity to prove that you are not the ...

Kayalami wrote:Such retroactivity has been accepted by the courts as an acceptable tool by the government to meet its required immigration quotas.

But I had understood that a recent Supreme Court case found otherwise, and that tens of thousands of applicants were to be reconsidered?

I've been a multifamily re-developer for 15 years, and so similarly cannot account for my whereabouts, other than the legal paper-trail. I made up a Career Portfolio, styled after a diplomatic portfolio, which documents my education, work, projects, credit record, etc for my full working career. It'...

I'm a US citizen in Texas, and when I first went through CIC's website I gathered that for the general public, the wait was 14 months for permanent residency. And for skilled workers it was 3-4 months. But in checking the status of my application for permanent residency I found statistics for prior ...