Types of Immigrants
What is an immigrant?
Someone who moves from one country to another
What is the point system?
With the more points, you have a bigger chance of getting approved to immigrate.
What is a law?
Something that everyone has to follow and can get in trouble if they don't.
What is a refugee?
Someone who moves to another country for their own safety and security.
What is a visa?
What is a policy?
A goal (number of immigrants in Canada in a year)
What is an economic immigrant?
Someone who moves to another country because they want to be part of their society.
What is a permanent residency?
You are allowed to stay and live in Canada for as long as you want. However, you do not have citizen rights like voting or being called to jury. You also do not have a Canadian passport.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
After the railroad, the Chinese had to leave the country unless they paid to stay in Canada because of racism.
What is a family class immigrant?
Someone who moves to another country because they have a family member there.
What is a citizenship?
You must take a citizenship test, have lots of points, you have citizen rights like voting, etc and you hold a Canadian passport.
What is the Provincial Nomination Program?
Each province can request a certain amount of immigrants and in certain fields to help stimulate the economy of that province.
Someone who moves to a country because their skills are needed to help the economy. However, once that country can train skilled workers, the temporary foreign worker must go back to their original country.
How do you get more points towards your permanent residency or citizenhip?
Education, language spoken, good grade on citizenship test, healthy, young...
What is the Quebec Accord Agreement?
If someone chooses to immigrate to Québec, they must learn French, kids must go to school French and they can also refuse people to move to their province if they do not speak the language. This is to protect the French culture in Québec.