Immigrate to Canada: Advantages of Canadian Immigration

Canada is a multicultural, multi-ethnic society that welcomes immigrants from across the globe. People from around the world have made Canada their home. (reference) If America claims to be the 'melting pot' of cultures and ethnicities, Canada aims to be an inclusive multi-cultural society.

Key benefits of migrating to Canada include:
• Good standard of living and life. Crime rate is relatively low in most Canadian Cities. One can feel safe in downtown areas of major cities - Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa.
• Liberal (relatively easy) Immigration process: Canadian Immigration is relatively easy, especially compared to immigration to other countries. Canadian immigration involves a point-based system where every applicant can be reviewed through his/her age, education, work experience, language knowledge and few other parameters. This encourages educated and young immigrants from around the world to immigrate to Canada
• Canadian Economy is relatively strong. Due to its rich natural resources - timber, oil, oil sands etc, canadian economy is primarily export oriented. Despite the global downturn, Canadians economy continues to be resilient.
• Welfare State: The social assistance net for those losing jobs is excellent in Canada. Government funded programs encourage people loosing jobs to re-skill themselves while looking for new jobs. Similarly, the social insurance provides for retirement for aged
• Excellent state sponsored medical policies: Canada provides health insurance for its residents, including immigrants. The health insurance is covered by government and provides facilities for Canadians to avail medical treatment and help at hospitals, Clinics and emergency rooms
• Good, and free, schooling for kids: Education in Canada is a state-run system of public education provided, funded and overseen by federal, provincial, and local governments. Education is compulsory up to the age of 16 in every province in Canada, except for Ontario and New Brunswick, where the compulsory age is 18.

Not surprisingly, people from the south-Asian countries, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh have also migrated to different parts of the country. The wave of migration continues in-spite of the extremely harsh winters that South Asians are generally not accustomed to back in their old country.

A collection of articles links and references on immigrating to Canada can also be found online on this website. If you are serious about immigrating to Canada, the best place to start your research on immigration to Canada is the Canadian Government official site for immigration Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Canada's official source of immigration and citizenship information. You should spend considerable time researching basic information on immigration, life in Canada, kinds of visas etc on the portal before contacting attorneys, consultants and others.