US Citizen wishing I could move to Montreal

[Anna Bijou]

Maybe it's just me but moving to another country only for this reason seems a bit extreme but maybe that's just me.
Also, there's often a discussion on French vs English when we talk about Montreal and Quebec in general, because it's a complex issue, but to be fair, it is complicated to live/immigrate in pretty much every country if you don't speak the language.

I don't know but if he's from the US, it might not be for the only reason. If I was American I'd sure be trying to get a second passport. I've even asked myself if i should be considering it considering how close we are and how it could very realistically get really unsafe real fast for us. It's not even that far fetched. I wish i had a parent who was born in Europe, I'll tell you that.

But as far as immigrating to Canada, if proximity to Montreal is a main criteria, there's Ottawa. I don't see why bother with the added hassle of going through the process to live in Quebec. I worked for IRCC and EVERYTHING is more complicated for applications to come to Quebec. Everything. Except if you're from France.

This province make everything more complicated, longer, a bigger pain in the ass. I swear, every single program, every single rule, prerequisite, anything - always has some difference for Quebec. To the point of being ridiculous and hard to imagine any reason other than just to make sure it's different. It's so dumb.

Ottawa isn't far. If i was immigrating here and didn't speak French, I wouldn't bother, I'd go to Ottawa and when i got my citizenship, the last step, I'd move to Montreal if that's what i wanted.

 

[LeDodo]

I don't know but if he's from the US, it might not be for the only reason. If I was American I'd sure be trying to get a second passport. I've even asked myself if i should be considering it considering how close we are and how it could very realistically get really unsafe real fast for us. It's not even that far fetched. I wish i had a parent who was born in Europe, I'll tell you that.

But as far as immigrating to Canada, if proximity to Montreal is a main criteria, there's Ottawa. I don't see why bother with the added hassle of going through the process to live in Quebec. I worked for IRCC and EVERYTHING is more complicated for applications to come to Quebec. Everything. Except if you're from France.

This province make everything more complicated, longer, a bigger pain in the ass. I swear, every single program, every single rule, prerequisite, anything - always has some difference for Quebec. To the point of being ridiculous and hard to imagine any reason other than just to make sure it's different. It's so dumb.

Ottawa isn't far. If i was immigrating here and didn't speak French, I wouldn't bother, I'd go to Ottawa and when i got my citizenship, the last step, I'd move to Montreal if that's what i wanted.

I'm French and I didn't find it less complicated for PR . I did it recently.
But I agree that if ones wanted to get PR done, out of Quebec is better. MIFI is still working with paper . It was painful the back and forth because I had to print and reprint whatever they asked (or lost ...)

 

[2fast2slow]

I don't know but if he's from the US, it might not be for the only reason. If I was American I'd sure be trying to get a second passport. I've even asked myself if i should be considering it considering how close we are and how it could very realistically get really unsafe real fast for us. It's not even that far fetched. I wish i had a parent who was born in Europe, I'll tell you that.

But as far as immigrating to Canada, if proximity to Montreal is a main criteria, there's Ottawa. I don't see why bother with the added hassle of going through the process to live in Quebec. I worked for IRCC and EVERYTHING is more complicated for applications to come to Quebec. Everything. Except if you're from France.

This province make everything more complicated, longer, a bigger pain in the ass. I swear, every single program, every single rule, prerequisite, anything - always has some difference for Quebec. To the point of being ridiculous and hard to imagine any reason other than just to make sure it's different. It's so dumb.

Ottawa isn't far. If i was immigrating here and didn't speak French, I wouldn't bother, I'd go to Ottawa and when i got my citizenship, the last step, I'd move to Montreal if that's what i wanted.

I like Ottawa and i thought of mentionning it in my earlier post in this thread. It has grown a lot in the last years and is accross the river from quebec and only 1.5 hours (plus the orange cones) to downtown montreal