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today I am talking about the process after you've received your permanent
residence confirmation if you're immigrating to a different
country and specifically to the country that I
immigrated to canada i'm going to be sharing on my
experience and the things that I think you can do to help yourself have a much
smoother transition to moving from the country that you're
in to the next now you've just received confirmation of
permanent residence and you submit your passports and you
get the little visas in your passport that
will allow you to enter the country so you
can go through the process of getting your permanent residence card wherever
it is that you're immigrating to the first thing that you should do is
make sure that after you receive that visa and
this is true with any other visa that you would get
but don't overlook checking for spelling even
on your confirmation documents you need to make sure
that your names have been spelled correctly and everything
is as it should be or else you're gonna have trouble
come time for you to go and actually move
and that's going to just delay your process unnecessarily so when you
receive your documents make sure that you're checking that every single
thing has been spelled correctly like don't just get stuck in that excitement
stage when you are preparing for your move one
of the things or the biggest things that i found was
deciding what we are doing with our physical goods so
the assets that we had it can be your furniture it can be cars it can be
houses you need to decide probably even well in
advance to the time when you are receiving your permanent residence
information that you are going to do eggs
with a house or houses that you have and you're going to dubai
with a car or cars that you have and with your furniture
are you selling your furniture are you giving it away
for us the easiest thing to do was to give things away
um that we weren't going to be using anymore but you can definitely sell
things and you can give things away like it's really up to
you and you need to decide what makes the most sense for you
now a lot of questions that i've gotten around
furniture is does it make sense to move with your furniture so ship
furniture abroad and on that one i personally would say
if you have an antique or some piece that you really want to
keep in the family or something that's been in your family for a while
and you want to keep that then that is definitely worth shipping but things
like a bed teaspoons cups
mugs like things of that nature curtains i don't think it's worth
the shipping costs it's better to just try and sell those things or give those
things away if you can and it makes sense for you and just buy
new furniture when you get to the new country
now what i will link is a shop that's called
ikea so it's a big um shop here that you can go on their
website and check what on average it would cost for you to
furnish a house so you don't have to be buying
everything from ikea but i think it's a space that can give you an idea
of what to expect from buying beds to
buying your tv stands to buying lamps curtains
whatever you know there's plenty of other shops
that you'll discover and you'll find that you can actually um shop at
but i think ikea can give you a bit of a baseline for things that are not super
expensive things that you will likely have to
assemble yourself or you can pay somebody else to assemble
but it can give you an idea for you to get that rough estimate that if i do
need to furnish our house how much would that cost me and you
literally can start out with just basics you know you need a bed
you need a couch you need a tv stand all of that stuff and those are the things
that you start off with and it's important i think to also make
a list that's one thing i never did of the things that you had or
have right now in your house so in the
kitchen what do you use when you're baking
you're cooking if you are somebody who bakes and cooks
those little things it seems like very little things but i found myself so many
times thinking that i already have something
because i had it in south africa not realizing that it's not something
that i actually purchased again when we arrived in canada
so i'll look for something and i'm like but i have this like i know i have it
but i can't find it and my husband will be like i think you had it in south
africa we haven't bought that here yet so making a
list of all the things that you're either selling or giving away that you
do still want to have that will go a long way in helping you
recover things that you actually do use and it will
stop you from having those moments of did i have this
in my the previous country that i stayed in or did i buy it here and i just
misplaced it and i don't know where it is because i
have i still have a lot like i'm going on two years living in
canada and i still have times where i'm like i
think i bought this but then i can't find it in the house
and there's that debate on is it something that i had in south
africa and just never got around to you to buy in here and i'm only realizing
like almost two years in that i don't have it
because i haven't really had a need for it it wasn't something
i used frequently but it's something that i do use
every now and then so definitely make a list
of all the things that you do have all the things that you would want to have
so you can easily keep track of what you have bought and what you haven't bought
from a furnishing your house perspective so now you've sorted out what you're
doing with your things when things are going to be going and you know when you
want to be moving you book your flights and your
accommodation now i would definitely recommend
booking accommodation via a b and b and it makes the most sense it's something
that we did and i do recommend that you book accommodation for at least a month
now one of the things that you get with booking a month on airbnb are discounts
there's discounts that they have if you are booking a month or longer a
stay and that works out it works out pretty
great so find a place where you can stay for a
month in an airbnb if you don't have you know other people
that you know who are willing to um and can assist are in a space and
position that they can assist you with a place to
stay for a few weeks book a place look through airbnb and
with airbnb if you do book for a month you get a
discount a certain percentage it depends on each place and it's different but you
do get a discount if you book a month and a and more than a month
so a month is enough for you to look around
find a more permanent place for you to rent
and when you are looking for that place to rent
the few things that i think are things that you should be prepared for
and that it might be difficult especially here in canada i'm in ontario
and it is a need that you show canadian credit history so have a credit record
in canada but now if you weren't in the country and
you haven't been living here you're not going to have a canadian
credit history so you should get the credit record from your
own country as much as they want a canadian one you
can explain your situation you're new to the country
you don't have a canadian record um credit record
but you do have one from wherever it is that you're coming from
so that's the first thing and then the other thing that they always want to see
are references so where have you stayed previously in canada
and they want to talk to that person and find out what kind of
attendant you were if you were renting a place but then if you're new to the
country again you're not going to have that so it
would be beneficial if there is a way to find somebody who will understand
that you are new and you don't have a
canadian credit record and when they are talking to home owners
they are able to articulate your situation clearly and also
state that you don't have any canadian references you know you're new to the
country you don't know anyone if you don't know
anyone you know some other people might be in a different position
where they might know someone but just be prepared that that is something that
helps in you finding a place but now for us we
didn't have anyone that we knew that we could put forward as a reference
and we didn't have the canadian credit record or credit history and we used the
south african one so that was still acceptable
but now finding an agent that understood our situation and was able to
clearly articulate it to a point where homeowners feel comfortable enough
renting out their space to these people that are just coming from
elsewhere into the country that did not work out that great for us
because we found ourselves in a position where
the agent at some point came back to us saying
the home owner wants us to pay 5 000 canadian dollars in deposit
for us to secure the place and mind you at this point we were willing to pay for
the full year's rent in advance so if we were finding a place
we're signing the contracts we were going to pay everything that
would have been due throughout that entire contract
but they still wanted us to pay 5000 upfront just as a secure deposit and
we'd get it back if everything went well at the end of
the term so that is not really you know that
legal here our contract would be about us
renting your space for 12 months and we'd pay you
x amount every month and we're literally giving you that amount upfront for the
full 12 months so what more do you want from us so we
had to stop with that and say okay we're not taking out 5 000 we said we
don't have 5 000 to give you as a deposit because
we'd already be paying you in full and what we had to do with that
was we had to find our own place we had to
go at it by ourselves speak to the agents that represent the
homeowners on our own and that's how we were able
to find a place much quicker it just wasn't working out with an agent
because they kept coming back with the same thing saying oh but you
don't have canadian history and the owners are fussy about that
and oh you don't have um references in canada and they're fussy about that
even though you are willing to pay for the food year in advance
yeah just the conversation wasn't going that great so
if you are coming with a job already i think that's a totally different story
because you have a job and they're able to see
that you have a job that's going to be paying you a
certain amount and you will be able to afford the place
every month if you don't have a job coming
in i would say be prepared that you might have to offer
paying the full 12 months of rent in advance
because look at it from the perspective of the home owner
they don't know how long it's going to take you to get a job and it might be
something that takes you less than a month
the same way it was for us but they don't know that
and they need to make sure that they're going to get their money back so
be prepared that that might be something that you need to do
but if you do come and you have a job already then
it's a totally different story for you you can go down that channel
and not offer to pay the full 12 months in advance because you
have that proof that you have a job that's going to be giving you money
every month and then if you do have kids just in
your planning do be mindful of the fact that you will
not be able to register your child in a school until you have a permanent
place to stay so if you're renting a airbnb for that
month that you're in the airbnb you won't be able to register your child
in school until you get a permanent address so be
mindful of the fact that you will not be able to
register your child in a school until you have a permanent place to stay
so they don't accept airbnb
locations or addresses as proof that this is where we stay
and we want to take our child to the school because they base
where your child goes to school on where you guys stay and you might rent an
airbnb in one area but end up staying in a totally different area
which is exactly what happened with us we got in here
and we stayed in richmond hill but we in the airbnb stage we were in richmond
hill and then we moved to ovil which is
so far it's so far from each other it wouldn't have made sense
for us to register our child at a school there for a couple of weeks and then
have to now move them again so when you're planning that move just
be mindful of that and work around that now another question that um parents
have asked is how does the school system work if
you're coming from south africa and the school year starts in january and ends
in december whereas here it starts in september so
school starts in september and ends in june
so whenever you come in your child is gonna have to go through certain
assessments now it's different for every grade what they have to do with the
child but they do assessments for whatever
grade they meant to be in and then from there they recommend
that okay they can go into this grade and these
are the measures that they'll that will be put in
place to support them if they do need to catch up on a couple of months maybe
they've missed a couple of months of school
depending on how the schooling system is set up where you're coming from
so just keep in mind that there's different start and end dates
to school starting but they're very accommodating and they work with you to
try and find what will work the best for your child so it's nothing
to stress about there's nothing to really stress about
and your child will get the support that they need
so that they can be integrated into the schooling system and everything works
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