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Always Wanted to Move To Canada? This year, make your dreams a reality!

Blog posted on by Evelyn Ackah in How To Move To Canada

Always Wanted to Move To Canada? This year, make your dreams a reality!

Have you always wanted to move to Canada? Now is the right time for you to move to Canada!

Canada recently announced a multi-year immigration plan to admit nearly 1 million immigrants by 2020. The government's plan focuses on the successful integration of new immigrants and includes admitting nearly 300,000 immigrants in 2018. Every year, thousands of people around the world want to move to Canada, but are waiting for the "right time." There are many reasons to move to Canada - a strong economy, excellent public health care and education, a strong sense of community, and a community that values family unification.

2018 is the right time to move to Canada, says immigration lawyer Evelyn Ackah. She believes qualifed immigrants help build a stronger Canada:

Many talented, educated and creative people want to move to our country to work and start businesses that will improve our economy and create jobs. Canada's emphasis on family reunification welcomes new immigrants with strong family ties who want to build their lives here. I support our government's goals to welcome newcomers to Canada and provide them with the tools and resources to successfully integrate into their local community and their new lives as Canadians.

  • Guide to Canadian Immigration Law and United States Cross-Border Immigration Law: Free eBook
    Our guide will help you learn about your opportunities to Move to Canada under Canadian and U.S. Cross-Border Immigration Law.

    Here's what you will find covered in our guide:

    • How to Move to Canada
    • Business Visitor Cross-border Applications
    • Temporary Residence Status in Canada - TRV Visa
      • Work Permit Applications
      • Parent & Grandparent Extended Stay Temporary Resident Visa (“Super Visa”)
      • LMIA
      • Childcare Visa
    • Permanent Residence Applications - Provincial Nomination
      • Express Entry Applications
      • Startup and Entrepreneur Programs
      • Skilled Worker Programs
    • Citizenship Applications
    • Assistance with Inadmissibility issues due to criminality or medical issues
    • Study Permits
    • United States Non-Immigrant Status: B-1 Visa, B-2 Visa, NAFTA permits, L1 Visa, H–1B, E-1 and E-2 Visas
  • Documentation Required to Move to Canada
    Before you can move to Canada, you must apply for permanent Canadian residency with the office of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. To enter Canada as either a visitor or to move to Canada temporarily or permanent, there are certain documents you must have to cross the border, or you will not be allowed to enter. Some documents are essential and required of anyone entering Canada, other documents may be required depending on your unique situation. If you are traveling with family members, each family member will also require documents.

  • How to Apply for A Canada Work Permit
    Before you can work in Canada, you must apply for a Canadian work permit with the office of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

  • How to Prepare for the Canada Citizenship Test
    The requirements to become a Canadian citizen are outlined by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). if you are between 14 and 64 years of age when you apply for citizenship, you must take the citizenship test. All the test questions are based on what’s in the free Discover Canada guide. Applicants must study this guide in order to prepare for the test. The guide is available in both English and French. The time and place of the are provided once the application is processed and you learn the results immediately after completing the test.

  • How to Move to Canada to Attend University
    In order to study in Canada, international students usually require a study permit. This is a document available only after a college, university, or other accredited educational institution has accepted you. Study permits are only available for those accepted to schools designated to accept international students. Not all students technically require a study permit, if the program is less than 6 months, you will not require a study permit.


Evelyn L. Ackah, BA, LL.B.

Founder/Managing Lawyer

Ms. Ackah is passionate about immigration law because it focuses on people and relationships, which are at the core of her personal values. Starting her legal career as a corporate/commercial ...

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It is one thing to earn a living; it is another thing to make a difference in the world.

This is our formal thank you note to Evelyn Ackah and the Ackah Law Team for all the effort they put into helping us navigate and finally resolve the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration back in the spring of 2012.

A friend referred us to Evelyn; he assured us that Evelyn would take good care of us. Our friend was confident we were in good hands and said Evelyn would do her very best to help us and she did! At the time we did not know that his referral would go far beyond finding us help. Slowly we realized that it would become our own personal story of how we received grace and were reminded of the power in paying it forward

We wrote a detailed page of our dilemma, explaining how we came to be in the position we were in (overwhelmed with the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration and the uncertainty that we faced as a young family in Calgary). Evelyn agreed to take on our file with her team. They found the time to personally call us and listened intently and understood the details of what we were dealing with. They gave us their time, an honest opinion and provided clear direction which proved to be invaluable advice. Months went by but in time, we received word from Ackah Law that the Immigration office had finally reviewed our file and a decision had been made allowing our family to finally put the immigration matter to rest. We were finally able to focus again to live our lives without fear or pending doom.

Looking back now, even the sun appeared to shine a little brighter that day. At first we didn’t know whether to bake them a cake, drive out to meet their team, find their offices and personally thank them with a mighty hug or simply cry out to the heavens in thankful relief. Instead we emailed them to express our heartfelt thank-you and we hoped that they would know deep in their hearts just how grateful we were for all of their help.

Even though we relied on emails and phone conversations to communicate with them that year, we will always remember their constant professionalism, their kindness and understanding at a time that brought us so much pain not to mention fear. As if all their hard work wasn’t enough, Evelyn then then casually mentions that all their work was done pro-bono! We were thoroughly humbled!

To this day we are still eager to share how wonderful they all are as human beings but even more than that, we continue to pay it forward in honour of them, their service to us and their continued dedication in helping others.

Eternally thankful

– The Brummunds

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