What rights and social benefits do Canadian immigrants have?

Immigrants, also known as permanent residents, enjoy basically the same rights as Canadian citizens except that they cannot participate in political elections. These include:

(1) The right to enter, stay or leave Canada;

(2) the right to freely choose occupation and residence;

(3) the right to receive education in minority languages, even if a person's mother tongue is not English and it is illegal;

(4) Have the right to apply for some form of funding, such as government subsidies, grants and scholarships;

(5) Free primary and secondary education, free vocational training and social insurance benefits.

2. Advantages after immigration

Holding a Canadian immigrant visa means becoming a permanent resident of Canada, and its advantages are as follows:

(1) Generally speaking, an immigrant visa is valid for life after he officially lands in Canada. Other visas, such as student visas, visiting relatives visas, work visas, etc., are temporary visas. Once they expire, they must leave the country and cannot be extended.

(2) Canadian immigrant visa holders can easily apply for studying and traveling in other countries.

You can get a visa valid for five to ten years by going to the United States many times. You only need to show your documents when entering or leaving the country, and the customs will not keep records.

(3) A permanent resident may be employed by any company (except for certain positions involving state secrets).

(4) China and Canada can travel freely without going through any formalities.

3. Social welfare of Canadian immigrants

Canada has a very perfect social welfare system and an education system that fully embodies the principle of fairness and reasonableness. But these are only "profiles" and there are many practical details. Only by being there and pondering carefully can we understand the truth. For example, everyone cares about medical care, unemployment, old-age security and education system.

Let's talk about medical security first. Many people are told that they can apply for government medical insurance after becoming Canadian immigrants. This insurance comes into effect three months after the immigrants land, and it doesn't cost money to see a doctor. In fact, the free medical insurance provided by provinces only includes various medical services, consultation fees and hospitalization fees, while the following items are completely self-funded: medical expenses, employment physical examination and insurance, telephone consultation, plastic surgery, artificial limbs, acupuncture and conventional dental treatment (the cost of dentists is very, very expensive). At the same time, after obtaining the medical insurance qualification, every immigrant must pay the medical insurance fee monthly (some provinces are free) to enjoy this guarantee.

Let me talk about unemployment insurance. Many new immigrants have the illusion that they have unemployment insurance and can get paid without working in Canada. If this is not an illusion, at least it is an illusion. There are also some conditions for receiving unemployment insurance. First, you have to work for more than 900 hours before you are eligible to apply. Secondly, the collection time varies from a few months to a year, and the number of monthly contributions is limited, which is generally about 50% of the salary at the time of employment, and the maximum monthly contribution cannot exceed about 500 Canadian dollars. Therefore, for new immigrants, it is precisely in the first six months of their arrival in Canada that they need protection most. There is a simple reason. If they can't find a job, they won't have accumulated working hours and they won't be eligible to apply.

Many new immigrants have heard that they can receive old-age insurance regularly after 65. But the premise of all this is that you pay the government's old-age insurance fees on time after you have a job. When you are young, you start to register a retirement savings plan, that is, you take out part of your salary every month and deposit it in a fixed account for investment, and then use it every month after retirement, otherwise it is not enough to rely solely on the government's pension when you are old.

The motivation of some people to emigrate is to give their children a broader space for development and avoid the increasingly fierce competition in China. In Canada, as long as you are over 5 years old, you can choose to attend public schools in your residential area. From kindergarten at the age of 5 to graduating from high school at the age of 17 and 18, all fees are free. If you need to save money for your child's college education, as long as you deposit 2000 Canadian dollars into a fixed bank account every year, the government will subsidize you 400 Canadian dollars every year until your child 17 years old. Of course, all this money must be used for children to go to college. In view of many advantages, it makes sense to immigrate to Canada for children. However, if a child under the age of five emigrates with his parents, parents must consider letting one of them take care of the child full-time within three or four years. Of course, they can also send him to a nine-to-five day care center, but the monthly cost is more than 600 Canadian dollars, which may not be affordable for new immigrant families.