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Carte de resident permanent

by Chris Dierkes

As of this morning, yours truly is now a Permanent Resident of Canada.  The card is styling with a high-tech bar code, picture where I can’t smile so I look like a thug, and of course a glossy embossed Maple Leaf.  For the Americans, this is the equivalent of having a Green Card.  Kiki’s card here pretty much looks like mine except mine is a lighter color and has some ugly honkin’ (in both senses) Canadian Geese across the top.

So in about 2 years if I can pass a history test and sing the National Anthem, I’ll become bi…..uh bi-national that is.

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15 comments

1 Cascadian { 10.28.09 at 10:45 am }

Congrats. I’m in that process meself.

2 Cascadian { 10.28.09 at 10:47 am }

How long did it take you from aplication to getting your card?

3 Will { 10.28.09 at 10:58 am }

Traitor.

Chris Dierkes
October 28th, 2009 at 11:00 am

Jealous much?

4 Chris Dierkes { 10.28.09 at 10:59 am }

I did an in-country application (via spouse sponsorship) and it took something like 14-16 months from sending in the application to today. It took me about 3-4 months beyond that to get everything together for the application. It’s not easy. But residency is much harder than citizenship. Once you clear the residency status (and actually live in the country), then it’s pretty smooth sailing to dual citizenship.

Cascadian
October 28th, 2009 at 11:10 am

“via spouse sponsorship”

Canadians, everyone should have one. Just got hitched to mine yesterday.

Chris Dierkes
October 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am

mazel tov!!!

5 Ryan { 10.28.09 at 11:01 am }

“So in about 2 years if I can pass a history test and sing the National Anthem, I’ll become bi…..uh bi-national that is.”

If you would like to be bi-curious, you’ll have to sing a rather different kind of song.

6 Mark { 10.28.09 at 11:05 am }

Chris – you forgot the accent there…

Chris Dierkes
October 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am

I didn’t forget it so much as I didn’t know how to input it and was too lazy to try to find out.

Mark
October 28th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

Ok, I guess you can get by without it for residency, but you’ll have to put it on for citizenship…

7 Jaybird { 10.28.09 at 11:48 am }

However much a good idea it may seem at the time, you need to avoid the poutine at McDonald’s.

Chris Dierkes
October 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

honest to FSM, I have no idea how they eat that stuff. This is one element of this country I will never get. I wouldn’t eat poutine unless my life depended on it–and to be fair you probably won’t live long after eating the stuff so it may be a six o’ one half a dozen the other kinda thing.

North
October 28th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Poutine is a pernicious phenomena that crept out of Quebec to corrode the arteries of Canadians everywhere. In short, blame the French.

Jaybird
October 28th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Whoa, whoa, whoa, there Tex!

I am *NOT* saying “avoid poutine”. I’m saying “avoid the poutine at McDonald’s”.

Get the poutine from the little mustachioed guy with the accent pushing a handcart at the park. That’s the poutine you want.