Hi everyone. Its maybe just a dream but i have started to think about living in canada. my husband has travelled round canada when he was younger doing ice skating camps etc. we would love to have an outdoors lifestyle in a nice community with friendly people who have good morals ( not like the uk, think underage drinking and anti-social behaviour.)

anyway, i am basically looking into what sort of occupations would be highly transferable to canada (and other countries perhaps). i am looking into doing a degree in nursing then gain a year or so experience in the uk in order to qualify for permanent residency. im actually open to any ideas with regards to a career path but in a nutshell the training i do in the uk will be geared to moving abroad.

i was doing some research on the net last night and got a call thismorning rom one of the immigration agencies that i was looking at. she said that it takes about 3 years for the visa process and you must have 3 years experience after you qualify in your occupation in order to be allowed in on a permanent skilled worker visa. I was under the impression that the more years experience you have the more points you get but the minimum was only 1years. also does it really take that long to process?

are there any occupations that you can do almost straight away when you get there without having to spend years of more study inorder to do what youve just spent 3years at uni studying to do!

thabks guys. sorry to go on a bit!