As the reality of a Donald Trump presidency began to sink in during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, so many Americans were searching how to move to Canada that the country’s immigration and citizenship website started struggling with bandwidth. It crashed repeatedly.
Among those seeking refuge in socialist Canada were dozens of celebrities, including singer/songwriter Cher, the “pansexual” entertainer Miley Cyrus, actor Samuel Jackson, House of Cards actress Neve Campbell, “Girls” celebrity Lena Dunham, and “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston.
See WND’s big list of celebrities who have promised to leave the country if Trump wins.
For those looking to make the move, there are considerable hoops that Canada requires them to jump through. Here are some of the major ones:
Step 1: Those without any family connection must choose from the Economic classes options, Humanitarian and Compassionate Cases, Temporary Resident Permit Holder or Right of Permanent Residence Fee Loan. Economic classes include Express Entry (federal skilled workers, federal skilled trades class, Canadian experience class), Start Up Visa, Quebec Investors and Entrepreneurs, Quebec-Selected Skilled Workers, Self-Employed Persons, Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class, Provincial Nominees (express entry or paper-based application), Caring for Children Class, Caring for People with High Medical Needs Class or Live-in Caregivers in Canada. Visit the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website (http://cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/index.asp) to review the requirements for each category.
Step 2: Complete and submit the appropriate application along with the applicable processing fee and requested supporting documents to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada office listed on your residency application. The forms can be completed electronically using Adobe Reader 10 or higher, but will need to be printed, signed and dated. Fees can be paid online. The supporting documents vary by residency category and include a photocopy of the personal information pages of your valid U.S. passport, proof of English (and sometimes French) language proficiency, birth certificate and financial information.
Step 3: Send your completed application to the Centralized Intake Office in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Wait for the office to process your application for permanent residency. If your application is approved, you will receive an official Canadian Permanent Resident card.
But if past trends are any indication, there will be no stampede of Americans northward.
For the first three months of 2016, applications for Canadian residency are up a bit over last year, but still on pace to be lower than 2014, the Detroit Free Press reports. Here are the totals — and notice, our northern neighbors get fewer than 10,000 residency applications from the U.S. in any year.
2011: 8,951
2012: 7,787
2013: 7,511
2014: 7,616
2015: 6,738
2016 (January-June): 3,568
Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took office Nov. 4 in Canada promising to import 50,000 Syrian ‘refugees.’
Those who do make the move will find a Liberal-run government more to their liking led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is a close friend of President Obama. Trudeau is in the middle of a program to integrate 50,000 Syrian refugees in a single year with likely more on the way next year.
Obama is also in the midst of a Syrian refugee splurge. He brought more than 12,500 Sunni Muslims to the U.S. in fiscal 2016, which ended Oct. 1, and is continue to pummel cities and towns throughout Michigan, California, Texas, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania with Muslim refugees not only from Syria but Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania all broke for Trump in Tuesday’s election and Minnesota was far closer than any pundits predicted with Trump culling 45 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 47 percent.
During the presidential election season, people living in America, looking for homes in Canada spiked 20 percent, the Free Press reports. Canada’s federal immigration agency saw a spike in Web traffic from American IP addresses in March, right after the start of caucus and primary season and again in June before the RNC.
How many will actually make good on their promise remains to be seen.
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