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Both myself and my girlfriend are about 14 months into our Skilled Workers application to emigrate to Canada. We are so desperate to go and at the moment our lives feel like they are on hold eg. not buying a house, staying in jobs we don´t like and just saving saving saving. The thought of another year, maybe more in this country, fills us with dread so one option we are considering is applying for a years working visa under the BUNAC scheme (when it reopens towards the end of this year). Not only would this get us over there but we might be able to make contacts, gain additional experience etc when/if the time comes to go
However I am concerned that it could actually affect our chances or elongate the time egg. We would almost certainly no longer be employed in the type of jobs we had when the application was submitted, no longer be living in the UK etc. Basically if there´s any way that going under the BUNAC scheme for a year could stop us living there permanently I would not want to take the risk
Does anyone have any experience of this or any suggestions? My only other thought is to contact UK immigration directly (difficult though that is) to get some advice, but is that realistic?
[04-07-2006,10:57]
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do not risk then
[04-07-2006,11:48]
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Why on earth would it affect your chances? It´s true that you would probably have quite a crappy year (I speak from experience, if you´re applying as skilled workers, that´s something different from what most BUNACers do - I have a UK degree and ended up working in a restaurant) but I would rather use that time to network and get jobs sorted out than to come to Canada as full PRs and have your newfound expectations dashed (because face it, it´s a shock when you immigrate, you won´t just walk into the same job you left). Come over on BUNAC for a year but make sure you have enough money in the bank for when you land as PRS. It can´t hurt your application at all and if anything, it would be favourably looked upon that you´re trying to fit in earlier.
[04-07-2006,13:53]
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Anonymous |
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he must leave Canada after BUNAC visa expires. And what if his landing is scheduled at that time or at the time he cannon re-enter?Think twice.
[04-07-2006,14:26]
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Thanks for all your advice everybody - it´s much appreciated. I have also emailed the UK Visa office directly - I don´t know if I´ll hear anything but thought it was worth a shout.
The way I look at it we would try and get the BUNAC visa by the end of this year and go to Canada by Feb 07 which would be roughly 22 months into our PR application. Therefore - fingers crossed - we would hopefully hear something within the 12 months of the BUNAC visa, but if we did have to come back to this country at least we would be that much further down the line and we´d have had a year in a country we want to be in. We live failry cheaply at the moment - we rent and have avoided buying much mainly because of our desire to leave - so again a year in Canada doing the same would not be a problem if we couldn´t settle officially
Both myself and my girlfriend work in IT-related fields (her as a buyer for an IBM partner and myself in sales for HP) although I have skills in other areas, Mac Operator, Sub-Editor etc. However we are realistic that - especially under the BUNAC scheme - it´s unlikely we´d be able to get these sort of jobs. From our point of view we can live with this but my main worry is that, becasue we probably would not be employed in the fields we submitted under our PR application - this might count against us.
The other concern is that, should we go on BUNAC, get a good job offer at some point and go onto a temp working visa as a result in order to stay that this would elongate the process or move our application from the UK to Buffalo - does anyone know if this is the case.
Once again any comments really very appreciated
[05-07-2006,10:15]
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