Moving to Canada when Husband has Canadian citizenship but never lived in Canada

[Kasia19.12]

I just felt that your list of cons was an attempt to dissuade the OP after she responded that she was not worried about being inadmissible; she did not ask for the pros or cons of living in Canada compared to the EU, just that it is her dream to move to Canada and if she could live and work in Canada while her sponsorship application was being processed, which 21Goose pretty much answered. She may or may not be happy living in the EU, we don't know that; she just wrote that "it's more of a dream to live in Canada" and since she has a very plausible path already set out on how to achieve this goal, writing out a list of cons can seem like a very pessimistic way of derailing her efforts; I feel that wishing her 'the best of luck' would have been a more appropriate response.

As for your 2nd point, I felt she already knew that her son is not a citizen by descent ("while we're going threw the sponsorship procedure"), so pointing this out was not necessary.

Thank you!

 

[vensak]

Hawk39 thank you!!
Well this is a very grim conversation right now.
Vensak your posts are very negative.
I know my son will need to get citizenship threw sponsorship. My choice for not getting him polish citizenship is just that my choice, he's 5 atm when he's older he can make his own choices.
List of cons as there were not many pros is really not that bad living in Poland and UK I think I seen it all by now.
I am aware it won't all be flowers, butterflies etc. It's life and it's hard but if you're willing to put hard work into it I'm optimistic we will be just fine.
I'm not looking for a handout I always worked for a living and if my polish bachelor degree won't be accepted I won't cry about it there's plenty of other jobs I can do.
If you were trying to put me off you failed. Also I'm not planning to move to US and use Canada as a stopping point no idea where you got that from...

I was comparing Canada to lets say 28-30 countries where you can legally work and live (that would include Germany, France, Belgium, Netherland or even Switzerland for example).
Since you did not mention neither your profession nor profession of your husband, I made just a general assumption where chances to be worse off (money and savings) are higher than to be better off.

Unfortunately unlike most people on this Forum, you already have access to some of those 10 ten best countries to live in already (with all that wide choice within EU+).
Of course this list cannot contain things like
free healthcare (where you have the same thing on most of EU),
better education (when you have UK and many more to choose from),
low pollution levels (when you have countries like Austria, Norway or Finland on your access list already)
or the feeling to live in first world western country (you already live legally in one of them).

But with that it is understandable that people have list of their own priorities (for example, desire to live in Toronto, Montreal in Vancouver; or a desire to be able to watch NHL live; or to be close to that family relative that lives in Canada). Those are the things that cannot really be listed on any kind of general comparison list, but they are important for you.
Some see it as a business opportunity which is OK as well.

And then you have the citizenship part, which means that you have to come to Canada and live here (at least for some time). Again this one cannot be replaced by any different country (unless you or your husband will be sent to work abroad by Canadian government)

For the side note at the end, I was also prepared that I will not find here any kind of fairy tale and did certain amount of research on things (that at that time seemed important). And then I still have ended up to be surprised by some other things (car insurance for example) and also positively by others (my taxes level so far).

 

[zardoz]

If you do want to come to Canada, you and your son can fly in on an ETA, while your husband uses his certificate of citizenship to enter.

Then, once you're here, you begin the sponsorship process and wait 4 months to get your work permit. Once you have the work permit, you can start working while you wait to become a PR.

The husband would not be able to get an eTA as a Canadian citizen in a non-Canadian passport. Canadians, even dual citizens (except for the USA), must travel on a Canadian passport to Canada. Fortunately, this is already in place in this specific case.

 

[Kasia19.12]

Vensak
English is not a first language in all the countries in EU so moving anywhere you want is not as simple as you may think. Again if we wanted to stay in Europe we would have stayed in UK but we don't want to.
This is my last post as I don't see the reason why I need to explain myself and my reasons to move. If you were just trying to be helpful you did it in a very amusing way.

To everyone else thank you for your help.

 

[Copingwithlife]

Vensak
English is not a first language in all the countries in EU so moving anywhere you want is not as simple as you may think. Again if we wanted to stay in Europe we would have stayed in UK but we don't want to.
This is my last post as I don't see the reason why I need to explain myself and my reasons to move. If you were just trying to be helpful you did it in a very amusing way.

To everyone else thank you for your help.

Good luck, they were just trying to be helpful and give you all the information required to someone that stated " it's more of a dream to live in Canada.', versus someone doing their homework prior to moving to a totally different country. And no, you do not have to give your reasons, I guess having the dream to live in Canada, will have to suffice for now