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Hi everyone,
I am getting married to my finance soon, I am a Canadian citizen and she is a German native. We will be getting married in Denmark.
We want to continue our life in Canada and not Germany, can I sponsor while I still live here in Germany?
I own a house still in Canada and have family there. We would be settling in Calgary, Alberta.
Our plan is to hopefully be able to start the application from here in Germany and during the 6-12 month waiting period we are going to work and travel in New Zealand until our application is (hopefully) approved.
I know there are interviews but I don´t know when/where they take place and how long they take. If it is possible to start the process here, do I/we conduct our interviews in a Canadian consulate?
Thank you all for your time.
[20-06-2010,10:12]
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Jay |
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(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
as a citizen you are eigible to sponsor your wife from outside the country on the condition that you can verify that it is your itent to return to Canada.
Interviews are not always required - depends on how well your prepare your application and the background of your spouse.
Have a look at cic.gc.ca - family class - outland sponsorship.
[20-06-2010,14:48]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
Jay,
Don´t you think Germany is far far far more better than Canada?? High standard of life, world´s no. 1 infrastructure, highly secured social system, easy access to the high tech life. Even a jobless in Germany can have a better life than a moderate worker in Canada.
Yes, language is the terrible thing. But in terms of "Life" probably you will have a better and pleasant life in Germany. Or do you thing otherway round?
[20-06-2010,17:55]
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Ger |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
Life is not pleasant in Germany at all. I speak fluent German, so that´s not the problem. The job market here is terrible, the job/school system is very cheap but the process is horrible. 3 year study to be a cashier at a supermarket to make 1000 euros a month? My fiancee made more money working at a golf course in Calgary for the summer than she did for a whole year in Germany. Taxes are insanely high here, and the bureaucracy can be insanely annoying. Charging you more tax on how big your house is, or how many rooms you have and if you have no room mates for example.
The people in whole here are unhappy, under paid and quite sad at times. Skilled workers of course do much better, but my engineer friend makes 1/3 of what my friends make back home.
Paying to call companies that made a mistake on your bill, basically being put on hold for 20 minutes but you are paying 20 cents a minute just to talk to someone.
These of course are just a few things. Germany is an amazing place to visit, not my favorite place to live by far.
But hey, it´s out decision, and we just don´t feel good here at all.
[20-06-2010,18:06]
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Jay |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
Jay,
I pretty much DON´T agree with what you´ve posted. I used to live in germany for a couple of years before I came to canada end of last year.
A 1000 euro a month is the bottom of what you earn in germany. what do you think a cashier in the supermarket here in canada makes a month?
in general taxes are higher in europe, agree. however, it quite depends. as a married person with one salary you´re better off in germany due to the german splittingverfahren. as a single you pay lower taxes in canada - BUT in return you get less. in germany higher education is free, whereas in canada you pay quite a lot for tuition... etc., etc.
regading job market - since i came to canada i got two job offers from germany, without applying. but it depends on your profession and educational background. i don´t know what kind of salary for engineers you´d expect in canada, but from what I´ve seen it´s about 70-80% of what an engineer would make in germany (see also http://www.worldsalaries.org/engineer.shtml).
and btw - i miss my 28 days vacation per year compared to 15 days in canada...
canada is a great country but by far not for the reasons you mentioned.
so long
brian
[20-06-2010,19:31]
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brian |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
Oh well, thanks for hijacking my thread. I live here now, so feel free to move back and see for yourself. Outside of Hamburg there aren´t many job opportunities in many industries here at the moment.
Had a few friends from the south have to move to the north to find work in engineering and software. It was that or Shanghai were the only job offers available at the time.
When I was here a few years back things were much better, but right now they are pretty poor.
Education is not free here either. Many universities now have tuition albeit a lot cheaper than Canada. There are still some free universities like in Berlin. Most Germans take at least a 10,000 EUR debt nowadays to pay for school/living and the government requires you to pay it back. It´s not as different as you think.
Oh well, I had scholarships in Canada and paid almost nothing for it there.
Thanks for the link to 5-6 year old stats, they are not quite accurate in todays job market.
Anyway, thank you Sharon for actually providing me with some information on topic.
[20-06-2010,19:53]
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Jay |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
jay, the figures might be 5 years old - so what?! you think that salaries in comparison have changed dramatically over the last 5 years???
in some german states higher education is still tuition free. in addition, at those unis that charge tuition fees they charge approx. 500 euros per semester - compared to unis in canada that´s nothing...
looking for a job? go to jobpilot.de or monster.de and just compare the number of open positions to monster.ca. - that might give you an idea.
i wish you good luck back in canada and i hope you wont be dissappointed.
so long
brian
p.s.: stick to the facts and people wont ´hijack´ your thread
[20-06-2010,23:43]
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brian |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
wow, usually the lifestyle bashing is confined to Canada. Never imagined a host country would get slammed by a forum participant.
Brian, not sure who is pissing in your cornflakes or what you need to mentally justify. Jay came with a legitimate question and was not looking for a commentary on his current situation.
Jay, I hope you got enough information to proceed.
[21-06-2010,01:20]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
You hijacked my thread when you made the "I don´t know you at all, but hey don´t you think you would be better off here" post that had nothing to do with my question and turned this into some "this country is better than that one thread".
We have lived both in Canada and in Germany, and we just liked Canada better. They both of great pluses and minuses, but our time spent in Canada was much better for us personally.
[21-06-2010,06:25]
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Jay |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
Sharon,
I know nothing about Jay´s background for sure. his posts only indicate a quite low understanding of the german educational system, the german taxation and job market (including salary structures) and he feels offended when someone having a different opinion is commenting on HIS thread.
I used to live in germany for over 10 years and indeed I have a quite good picture of both countries.
what pisses me off is when someone is posting complete crap - thats all.
cheers
Brian
[21-06-2010,09:59]
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brian |
(in reply to: Bringing my wife from Germany to Canada)
I never posted anything about Germany at the start. You asked, and I answered, only to realize you´re a giant troll.
My understanding of the German system is fine, I know real people here, what they earn, what they do and how much school they took and what they paid for it.
Some schools here are free, some are 64 EUR a semester, some are 500-800 per semester and some private higher educated are 700 EUR per month. I have brochures sitting right on my desk from my finace from over 30 universities in Germany.
I know that in most cases, 1 year of school in Canada would cost as much as the entire degree here. I also know that my finace working part time in Calgary, vs her full time job here (you know, because people don´t tip here right?) made almost twice as much money, and even more important, enjoyed the job more.
As for your cashier statement, yeah they earn about the same here as in Canada. The big difference is people took an Ausbildung here for 3 years before, while anyone could just walk into Safeway and get a job without experience or 3 years of education.
I know the apartment costs in my area, current gas prices, regular salaries and more...because I live here and have friends here.
Personal experience? I was offered a similar job that I had in Calgary. They offered me 600 euros a month netto. I made $4400 a month back in Calgary.
Since salaries aren´t offered publicly in Germany, and there is no bureau that officially keeps the stats, I have to rely on asking people I know to get my information. That way I know it´s true as well.
I´m sorry I got sucked into this troll thread, and really, our views and experiences would of course be different in Germany.
If you miss it so much here, you can come back and hang out with my neighbours who don´t have jobs and just complain about Turkish people taking their money. I really don´t understand why you aren´t back here right now.
I´m done replying to this.
[21-06-2010,10:25]
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Jay |
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