Monday, July 9, 2012

Asking for and accepting help

Well as I said before we have embarked on this mission to immigrate to Canada. We are leaving everything up to God and if things don't work as planned... well it wouldn't be the first time. God has his own plan and right now we feel that we are suppose to try. So try we will. Aside from the mountains of paperwork immigrating is expensive and more so when you going to a place where the money conversion is not in your favor. For example I make the about 700usd a month at my full time job. We are making it on that here but that helps you understand why no vacations to the states are in the future. We realize that one of the ways God may provide for us is through friends and family who wish to help us. My plan is to describe each step as we go and explain the expenses we will be facing. Also if we receive any financial help I will be posting what we are doing with the money we receive.  Right now I'm going to try and give you the whole picture in a nut shell.


I wrote about the first step here:  http://bordersaside.blogspot.mx/2012/06/taking-it-few-steps-at-time.html


Below I am pasting a read out I got from the Canadian Immigration site. 

Summary of fees for selected services

Upon submission, fee totals due will be confirmed by the office processing your application(s).
*All fees and calculations are provided in Canadian Dollars only.
Your nearest Visa office web site will have the currency(ies) accepted.
ApplicationQuantityPrice(C$)/UnitTotal(C$)
Immigration Applications for Persons Outside Canada
Permanent Residence
Right of Permanent Residence Fee2$490.00$980.00
Other classes of applicants - Skilled Workers, Provincial Nominees
Principal applicant1$550.00$550.00
A family member of the principal applicant who is 22 years of age or older, or is less than 22 years of age and is a spouse or common-law partner1$550.00$550.00
A family member of the principal applicant who is less than 22 years of age and is not a spouse or common-law partner3$150.00$450.00
Total:$2530.00
Obviously none of this includes traveling ext. I have a great offer for a place to stay in Calgary so that has been provided!!! Yeah for my blog buddies!!! 
So to answer the questions I have been getting and the actual reason for this post is to tell you I have placed a PayPal donate button on my blog. If you feel that you want your specific donation to go to a specific payment or anything like that feel free to let me know. I know sometimes people feel very specific callings and sometimes not. And as I have said before we consider prayer the most important assistance so for those of you who can not help us in this way your support and prayers are very important to us.  


3 comments:

  1. We just paid our Canadian immigration application fees and right of permanent resident fees 2 months ago - I feel you! <3 I am really hoping for you guys!! Please keep us posted!

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  2. P.S how come you only have 2 right of permanent resident fees but 5 other people? If they are non-accompanying, wouldn't you not have to pay for those fees?
    For example: my spouse and i have 3 daughters that aren't accompanying us to Canada however I just had to pay for his application fee and right of permanent resident fee but not theirs ( i did include them on the application though so that they could be sponsored at a later time if we wanted)

    Just wondering :)

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  3. fritp- Thanks for your suggestions. My girls little, six years and under. From what I understood if they are underage I wouldn't have to pay that. But I may be wrong. Since we are still a ways off from filling out that application I hadn't really checked to deeply. I will look into it again.

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