Going from student visa to citizen in Canada?
If I get a student visa to go from UK to Canada to study for three years, will I then be eligible to apply for citizenship? If not, does anyone know of a way to get Canadian citizenship? You know, without having to get married etc!
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under the canadian experience category you must graduate from an approved course of study and then get a work permit and work for 12 months at a full time job in Canada. Once you have worked for 12 months then you are eligible to APPLY for PR status. You must then continue working on the work permit while the PR application is being processed (currently taking about 2 years). Once you get approved for PR you then MUST LIVE in Canada as a PR for 3 years before you are eligible to apply for citizenship. Citizenship is currently taking 18 months to be processed. so altogether it take anywhere up to12 years to get citizenship from the time you begin studying a 4 years course at a Canadian university. And you dont have to be married for any of this process. Getting married gets you PR status within 1 to 2 years and then citizenship within 4 to 5 years after that.
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