How to apply for a Canadian green card

The total cost varies from person to person, and the agency price varies according to different types of immigrants. No intermediary, all of it. The single skilled immigrant is about10.5 million yuan, and the family of three is about 25 thousand yuan. The agency fee is about 1.2 to 1.5 million RMB. Now the landing fee is halved. In addition, you should have assets of about 80,000 to 6,543.8+0.3 million RMB to prove that some kinds of immigration applications and audits must be conducted in embassies and consulates outside Canada. This is true for skilled immigrants, investment immigrants, entrepreneur immigrants and self-employed immigrants. Applicants in the above categories must submit application materials to embassies or consulates outside Canada, even if they are already in Canada. Not every embassy or consulate accepts immigration audit, so the materials must be submitted to the embassy or consulate with immigration business. China applicants generally submit materials to the following embassies and consulates: Beijing, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Buffalo, London, etc. After the application materials are submitted to the embassy or consulate together with the application fee, you should receive a receipt and a notice indicating the application file number (file number). If the materials are complete, after a period of time, you should receive a second letter, which is a preliminary opinion on the material review. After passing the preliminary examination, most people enter the interview stage or take the English test as required. Some people were rejected at the initial stage. The next stage is waiting for the interview. But not all applicants have to attend the interview. If the immigration officer can decide to pass the exam only on the basis of reviewing the materials, then the applicant can be exempted from the interview. Once you pass the interview or exemption, the last hurdle is the physical examination. If everything else has been exhausted, generally speaking, you can get a visa after two or three months of physical examination. The longest of the above stages is the stage of waiting for an interview after submitting materials. This is commonly referred to as "interview schedule". As the number of applications received by embassies and consulates is different, the number of immigration officers is different, the working mechanism and efficiency are different, and the whole application process and waiting time are also very different. The shortest application time for skilled immigrants is about 3 months. At the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, some applicants waited for three years. The extremely long application has exceeded five years. The application for family reunion (guarantee) should begin with the guarantor who has entered Canada and has the status of citizen or immigrant. The guarantor should go to the immigration center of the municipal government to get the application form. Fill in the form and submit all the necessary materials, and submit it to the Canadian Audit Office at the designated place. After the materials are approved, the audit office will send the application form to the guarantor or give the relevant materials to an embassy or consulate, and then the embassy or consulate will issue the application form to the applicant. The application form contains a list of required materials, which shall be filled in by the applicant or guarantor as required and submitted to the embassy or consulate. 1999, the time for spouses and children to apply for review is generally less than 6 months, and the time for sponsoring parents to review is slightly longer. If some investment immigrants want to apply for Quebec, they must pass the exam in Quebec first. Quebec investment immigrants generally need more than half a year to complete the provincial government's audit, including interviews. Finally, it must pass the final approval of the federal government. From application to getting a visa, it is generally within 1 year, and some are a little longer. To put it simply: you should be able to explain the source of the assets of 800,000 Canadian dollars, including tax bills and other supporting materials, and have experience in operating assets such as business, and invest 400,000 Canadian dollars in Canada. Self-employed immigrants: you should have the ability to make money by starting your own business, for example, you are a star player, an artist and so on. The latest news of skilled immigrants in Canada: Applications for skilled immigrants in Canada submitted after February 27th, 2008 can only be processed by Immigration Canada under the following three conditions: 1. Employment arrangement of Canadian employers. 2. Working or studying in Canada for more than one year. 3. Applications with more than one year's work experience in 38 newly announced occupations that do not meet one of the above three conditions will not be accepted by the Immigration Bureau. The federal government will refund the visa application fee for skilled immigrants submitted after February 27 this year. It is difficult for skilled immigrants from China to knock on the Canadian door. 38 newly announced industries with high technical demand are unpopular. According to the full efforts given by the amendment to the federal immigration law, Canadian Federal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Connie announced yesterday the high-demand technology industry that Canada absorbed professional and skilled immigrants in 2009. Judging from the announcement, the number of skilled immigrants has decreased from 300 to 38; From the professional point of view, it focuses on unpopular majors that are generally difficult for ordinary people, including applicants from China, such as petroleum engineers, mining engineers, audiotherapists and speech therapists, plumbers, medical radiologists, etc. This means that the Federal Immigration Department has closed the door of absorbing overseas skilled immigrants to a narrow place, and many China applicants who want to apply for immigration to Canada through skilled immigrants cannot do so under the restrictions of these 38 high-demand skilled industries. Jason kenney, Federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced yesterday that the target number of immigrants in Canada in 2009 was between 240,000 and 265,000. According to the newly revised immigration law, all applications for skilled migration submitted after February 27th this year will be accepted by the Immigration Department only in the 38 high-demand technical industries newly announced by the Immigration Department, and the rest will not be accepted unless the applicant has been given a definite job and employment arrangement, or has lived in Canada as an international student or a temporary worker for more than one year. Next year, Canada will absorb more than 240,000 economic immigrants (including professional and technical federal skilled workers immigrants, investment immigrants, Canadian experienced immigrants, Quebec economic immigrants, immigrants nominated by various provinces and caregivers who have already lived in Canada). ***6 categories). In 2009, Canada will absorb a total of 156600 people. Among them, the other five sub-categories except professional immigrants and skilled immigrants will be tried according to the existing priority order. Applications for professional skilled immigrants submitted before February 27, 2008 will still be processed in the order of application. Applicants submitted after the above date must meet at least one of the three conditions before their cases will be processed. First, the applicant must be in 38 high-demand occupations newly announced by the Immigration Department in 2009 and have at least one year's working experience in these occupations, or second, the applicant is a foreign worker or international student who has legally lived in Canada for more than one year, or third, the applicant has been placed in employment. For new applicants who meet the above qualifications, Connie hopes to be approved within 12 months instead of waiting for 6 years as before. Applications that do not meet the above conditions will not be accepted and the application fee will be refunded to the applicant. Family reunion will admit 765438+100000 people next year. In 2009, the total number of immigrants for family reunion was 76,5438+100,000, of which applications for ensuring the reunion of spouses, parents and minor children will be processed immediately upon receipt. In 2009, the target of accepting humanitarian immigrants was 37,400. Looking at these 38 so-called high-demand occupations, it is found that most of them are highly specialized and unpopular technical industries, such as mining engineers, plumbers, physiotherapists, medical radiologists, supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services. Connie explained that applicants who do not have the qualifications of the above 38 industry categories can apply for immigration according to other categories, such as provincial nomination of immigrants, or apply for temporary foreign workers to go to Canada first, and then become permanent residents according to Canadian experience. He said that the official website of the Federal Immigration Department has added information on the ways and types of applicants who can immigrate to Canada, and adopted an interactive mode to facilitate applicants to find out. Regarding how many temporary foreign workers the federal government will accept each year, and according to the Canadian Experience Category (cec), how many percent of them will eventually stay in Canada permanently, Connie said that the Immigration Department has not set a fixed quota for accepting temporary foreign workers so far, which depends entirely on the demand of the local job market. Cec is also a new immigrant category established only this year. So far, not many people have applied and approved, but the future will be a "fast track" for accepting immigrants. He predicted that cec categories would be easier than ordinary skilled immigrants in the future. Of course, not all workers are entitled to cec. Connie said that absorbing temporary foreign workers will not compete with local workers and skilled immigrants for the job market. Foreign workers will be engaged in jobs that no one in Canada really undertakes according to the guidance of the Federal Ministry of Human Resources, such as farms and heavy machinery.