Any option similar to Start-up visa?

[quantumscience]

Hi

I read from the Canadian Immigration website that they have this new Start-up visa (permanent residency), which sounds really great.

Does anybody know, if they have any similar option / permanent residency visa whereby they let the applicant himself invest in his own business (say, more than £200K, rather than seeking such investment from a venture capitalist) in order to move his existing business from UK to Canada?

Also important aspect I am looking for in such a potential visa being that it does only take a reasonable time to process the visa, say 1-2 years, rather than 8 – 10 years of average processing time that they have currently (based on what they have published in their website at this time).

Add to it, I am not looking to seek employment there. I am self sufficient, and I want to run my own business there.

Any ideas or information, if anybody has been doing such similar research please?

Thanks.

[quantumscience]

Hi

Has anybody emigrated to Canada from UK and moved their existing successful business there (as part of emigration)?
Please share your experience.

What is the process for such a Canadian PR visa?

Thanks.

[quantumscience]

Hi

After some research & inquiries, I have found that I should consider to apply for the Investor visa based Permanent residence.

It’s pretty straight forward: I can show my own business (100%) ownership experience (as qualifying business) that I have been running it for over a decade in the UK (developing Software products), show the required personal net worth and agree to invest that required amount with Canadian govt., and have sufficient money to support myself + family in Canada.

The program is "Investor visa (PR)" but it is currently in "paused" state. No applications are accepted now, but apparently they will accept applications for this later on in a year or so from now (since the program does not seem to be completely removed from existence).

The processing time is still a question, but hopefully it won’t take 5-10 years like they had before, so as long as it won’t take more than year or two, I am happy.