immigration complete...my wife is for hire...

immigration has been completed. My wife is now a Permanant Resident of Canada. The interview was pretty quick and almost useless. We basically walked in and the lady confirmed the Mrs' name, birthdate, address and confirmed with her passport. Then asked questions like "have you ever been asked to leave Canada?", "have you ever commited a federal offence?" and then had her initial and sign a form. All these questions I am sure that they either knew or could have done a search in either Canada or Singapore records and found out. However, knowing the speed at which they travel for documents, I am thankful they asked us and didn't wait for the paperwork or else I would be waiting for my Canada pension cheque to cash by the time they got the info that they wanted. After that she shook her hand and welcomed her to Canada. Total time of interview, maybe 5-10 minutes tops.

After that we walked out of the office, the Mrs did a little dance of joy that she could work and we went clothes shopping cause she needed clothes for interviews that are in the not to distant future. The best part however was when we were in the food court to grab a late breakfast when all of a sudden the Mrs got hit with the thrill of being able to work and threw up her hands and called out "I am for hire...please, someone hire me!". Now, I am not expert and all but I am thinking an attractive Asian woman screams out she wants to be hired in a mall setting...yeah, don't think she would want the jobs that would be offered to her from the people offering those sorts of jobs. Granted the pay would probably be good and tax free but....well, not something that I want my wife to be doing. :-)

But, all said and done, the paperwork is finished and now we just have to wait 4-6 weeks for the PR card to come then we can apply for the SIN card and she is fully fledged to work. However we were told that she is able to be hired now so if she gets an interview or job she can tell her employer that the cards are in the mail and they usually show some leeway in that case.