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[lebizcanada20]

IRCC's Recent Announcement: What You Need to Know About the Proof of Funds Update

On May 27, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) revised the proof of funds (POF) criteria for candidates applying through the Express Entry system. This adjustment is part of an annual update that reflects the current low-income cut-off totals as published by Statistics Canada.

Note: Candidates with more money than the minimum requirement should list the full amount in their Express Entry profile or on their application & Express Entry Processing Timeline .

Here are the Express Entry candidates better under this requirement, CIC News has compiled a list of frequently asked questions.

What is the Updated funds requirement for Express Entry in 2024?

Express Entry POF requirement for 2024, as of May 28.

Express Entry candidates must include both their spouse or common-law partner in any dependent children they have when calculating the size of their family for proof of funds.

This is a requirement even if a candidate’s family members are:

Already Canadian citizens or permanent residents

Not accompanying the principal applicant to Canada

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[chopraimmica]

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[martian-astro10]

Solar Return Observations- Part 1

Having a sagittarius ascendant is a strong sign of starting college. (I had this the year I started my bachelor's and all of my friends had this as well the year they went to college. My sister had it when she started her bachelor's)

If you are not in an already well established relationship then don't have sex when neptune is in 8th.

The year in which you have a 1st house stellium and vertex in 7th will be when you meet a lot of people that are going to be important for self development. You will finally learn to put yourself before others. I personally think that it's a great combination to have. (you will meet both good and bad people)

You will study a lot when vertex is in 9th house. (my sister and her friends, in their last year of college, bachelor's, they ALL had this placement, it was so fascinating to see. They had to look for jobs after that, so they were putting in extra effort)

Jupiter in 11th in cancer is THE BEST, you will feel so loved by your friends, you guys are gonna have so much fun. (I loved my life that year)

Uranus in 9th means unexpected but also SUDDEN travel. (the year that my sister went to Canada for her bachelor's, her session was starting on 7th September and her student visa got approved on 29th October, we had literally lost all hope. Everything was so chaotic)

Moon conjunct neptune indicates an emotionally heavy year. The house that it's in will tell the area where you'll be feeling sad. (I would like to put an example but it's too personal, and I don't wanna share)

Moon conjunct mercury in 4th house can be SOOOOO healing, especially if you do not have a good relationship with your parents. You will finally talk about your feelings with your parents. If the relationship is good then you will become even closer to them. (when I had this, I had so many discussions with my mom, and she told me so much about herself that I didn't know before, it really brought us closer)

Jupiter in 3rd house can help you become more social. As an introvert, this was the year when I finally started feeling more comfortable talking to strangers.

7th house stellium in pisces... Bro, I was OBSESSED with soulmate meditations during the year. If neptune is there as well, then forget about getting anything done, you will be too busy daydreaming about your Mr/Mrs right.

(all pictures are taken from Pinterest)

© martian-astro All rights reserved, 2024

[teawitch]

Fam, I need y'all to take a deep breath, get some rest and stop panick planning.

Friend calling me - "I need to plan to move to Canada!"

Me - "okay, why specifically do you need to move to Canada?"

Her - "Because Florida is a red state and doesn't have abortion rights!"

Me - "Honey, you've had a hysterectomy."

Her - "I know but I could help women who need to go "camping" by letting them stay with me."

Me - "So first you'll need a Visa that will let you work in Canada"

Her - "I can get a student visa"

Me - "Which means you can go to school in Canada. You want to buy property and have a job."

Her - "That would be the next step."

Me - "You're panick planning again, aren't you?"

Look, I have trans friends and gay friends who may need to do some contingency planning. But take a breath, get some sleep. And don't suddenly move to Canada on a student visa.

Also, if you live in Florida, I recommend taking up knitting. I've heard Vermont has wonderful yarn shops if you need to go on a road trip.

[communistkenobi]

I love finding new communists blogs because you immediately have to scroll through all the posts to see if you wanna follow them or block them lmao. Anyway from what I understand you work in western academia to some degree and as a student taking some classes in the social sciences it’s such a pain in the ass trying to even bring up a Marxist perspective. How do you deal with how much pushback socialism has in academia?

I’m doing a PhD in sociology ! And please feel free to block me, we are all annoying etc 

I would say that resistance to socialist ideas is a major source of frustration for me in academia - a learning curve for me has been gearing my writing & research to work around that type of institutional hostility. It depends on the discipline as well. Given that Marx is such a titanic figure in sociology I find it easier to engage with his work openly (although you will be mocked for it lol - it’s viewed as a dead-end project in the West since the USSR collapsed), whereas more history- or politics-based courses I’ve taken have been extremely hostile to even tepid Marxist analysis. I have friends to vent to and have found other people in my discipline who are like-minded, which has helped. You will need to do a lot of tactical retreats - I’ve found that tying your analysis to state policy helps a lot, it helps you get grants, and academics trade in policy-talk across disciplines so it will prepare you for that if you want to stay in academia.

I have also been making peace with the fact that academia is not really the place to “do” socialism - it is a deeply political job, and my ideological commitments motivate me to do work and research that I hope are beneficial to the world, but I think the authority and privileges afforded to academics, not academia itself, is the better avenue to conduct political activity - participating in student & left-wing actions, giving money and resources to activist groups, using your prestigious position to publicly speak on issues, sign important documents for vulnerable people (profs are counted as authorities to sign off on name change documents for trans people in Canada for example, as well as visa and citizenship proof I believe?), things like that. There was that Canadian doctor, Dr. Yipeng Ge, who was suspended from his university position for speaking out against Israel and went to Palestine on a medical mission, Engels used his family’s money to fund Marx & socialist actions, Lenin went to law school, etc (i am NOT remotely comparing myself to any of them to be clear lol, just demonstrating that there is historical precedent for this way of thinking). I’ve done a decent amount of union + community work and the reoccurring lesson I keep learning is that there are many little, vacant positions of power sprinkled throughout the world that will help you organize and agitate above and beyond your individual capabilities. And the right wing knows this! They take over local school board committees and town halls and run for office in their local neighbourhoods all the time, often unopposed, and use that to exert terrible political influence.

I try very much to resist the “one of the good ones” mindset re: my own career in academia and is one I struggle with pretty often. being pragmatic about what academic research actually does in the world is still something I’m grappling with. Academia has provided me with an incredibly prestigious education and a lot of social capital that I hope to use for some amount of good. I’m also betting on what is essentially a lottery ticket, given how rare tenure-track university positions are, so maybe all of this will be irrelevant anyway lol. I’m not sure if that’s helpful but it’s not a settled issue for me either, so if this reads as vague or wishy-washy that’s why!

[ladykailitha]

Sweet Home Indiana

You guys are getting an absolute feast this week. Two chapters on regular posting days, the twenty snippets you got on WIP Wednesday, this, and of course more Across a Crowded Room tomorrow.

Enjoy!

Based off a post I saw on here (and didn't save for some reason) about the legal tangles gay people had to go through when gay marriage was federally legalized because a lot of them married different people in different states because their marriage in California wasn't legal in the other states and just never bother to get a divorce.

And my brain let's Steddify this shit Sweet Home Alabama style!

So here we go:

Eddie and Steve got married in Boston when Massachusetts made gay marriage legal. But they broke up when Eddie went to California with his band.

Cue Eddie going around and having a couple of really short marriages in different states. Tommy in New York for three months when the band was in New York recording an album. Billy in Hawaii for two weeks while Eddie was there on vacation.

Neither of them really mattered or were serious. Because they were only legal in the state they were performed in so Eddie didn't think anything about it.

Fast forward to a decade later, gay marriage is legalized across the country. Corroded Coffin has broken up and Eddie has a job as a tattoo artist.

Eddie goes to get a marriage license in Seattle where he's been living for the past five years. And is denied on the account he's a polygamist. He's still married to three different men in three different states.

Fuck.

His fiancee Chrissy is a legal assistant at a law firm so she has her bosses draw up annulments for Eddie's three marriages and has them sent out to all three of Eddie's exes.

Including Steve.

When Steve gets his papers, he's pissed. He hunts down Eddie's number and calls. Tells him that he can do the proper thing and tell him to his face he wants a divorce. None of this annulment bullshit like their relationship didn't matter. But until then he can fuck off.

Now Eddie's frantic. Because the reason why he and Chrissy were getting married in the first place is that her student visa ended in May and her work visa has been delayed three times. They have to get married otherwise she'll be deported. And no just a little across the border to Canada either, she's from Barbados.

He tells her the truth about Steve and how they were actually married for almost two years before Eddie left. They had been living in their home town of Hawkins where their marriage wasn't legal any way, but meant something to them.

Chrissy is upset he didn't tell her this sooner, because yeah, that's whole other kettle of fish. So she has her bosses draft a divorce decree and words it a whole lot nicer than the legalese of the annulment.

Eddie packs his bags heads to back to Hawkins and back to Steve. He has one week to convince Steve to sign the divorce papers.

He gets into to town and finds that Steve is the proud owner of the best bakery in town. And the best selling item is the chunky mint brownies Steve made just for Eddie when they first got together. Eddie gets a little sentimental about it, and Steve stubbornly refuses to sign the papers.

They go back and forth for a few days. They tumble into bed and Eddie wakes up, he finds Steve gone and the papers signed.

Only now that Steve has signed them, he doesn't want that anymore. So he breaks down crying and sobbing. He calls Chrissy and now Chrissy is as distraught as he is.

After they hang up Chrissy calls the bakery and Robin answers. Chrissy really needs to speak to Steve.

Robin tells her Steve can't come to the phone because he is covered in flour and can't because he'll get it messy. Chrissy asks if she calls his cell phone if Robin could hold it up to his ear, because she really needs to talk to him. But Robin refuses to budge. She banned Steve from having a cell phone around their giant stand mixer because he has lost three of them to the beast.

Robin offers to pass long the message, though. And Chrissy has to be content with that. She explains who she is and why Eddie needed the divorce. She tells Robin about Eddie's breakdown that morning and how he really didn't want to divorce Steve.

Robin and her get to talking about their best friends, missed connections and themselves.

While the girls are talking Eddie is having another freak out because he put the envelope containing the divorce papers in the mail box but realized he forgot to sign them himself. He needs to get them back so he can sign them, but he's afraid of getting arrested for tampering a federal post box trying to get the papers back.

He's near hysterics when Nancy finds him. She's in town visiting her family. And she helps him get the papers back by talking to the post office and they open the box and he gets them back.

She takes him to lunch to calm his clearly frazzled nerves. He tells her everything. And she tells him that while Eddie was in New York, Steve had gone to see him and when he saw how much bigger and better the big city was, Steve decided if he was going to win Eddie back, he had to make something of himself. And thus began the bakery. He almost had enough to fly to Seattle and woo Eddie. But then this happened.

Now Eddie is really stricken. He wants Steve so bad, but Chrissy is out of options.

Nancy gives his arm a squeeze and Eddie heads back to the hotel he'd been staying at.

He finally looks at his phone and sees a lot of messages and texts from Chrissy begging him not mail the divorce papers yet, she has a plan. Cue Eddie having a final breakdown in his hotel room, sobbing and wrung out.

There is a knock on his door and Eddie is confused the only person who knew his hotel and room number was Chrissy and she's in Seattle. But he gets up to answer and suddenly has an armful of Steve Harrington. Who is also a sobbing wreck.

After both of them calm down, Steve tells him he only signed the papers because he wanted Eddie to be happy. And if that meant being divorced from him, he'd do it.

But Eddie's isn't happy. He's sad and hurt and lonely. Steve is too.

They fall asleep in each other's arms, placing their trust in their best friends.

The next morning they are woken up by Robin and surprise surprise, Chrissy.

They explained that since gay marriage is legal everywhere now, Robin is going to marry Chrissy. And she'll swap places with Eddie. She'll go back to Seattle with Chrissy and Eddie can stay here with Steve.

It's perfect.

They get a marriage license and walked down the courthouse where Eddie and Steve are their witnesses. While the judge is talking, Steve pulls out Eddie's old ring. The one he returned to Steve when he moved out to be with his band.

He slips it back on Eddie's ring finger where it belongs. They kiss at the same time Chrissy and Robin do.

A couple years later Chrissy becomes a lawyer and her and Robin move back to Hawkins where Eddie has opened his own tattoo parlor, right next to Steve's bakery.

And they all live happily ever after.

ETA: Full Story here.

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[buckets-of-dirt]

I didn't go as far north, but I do second the recommendation for universities in smaller cities! I attended a school in atlantic Canada that may not have the same name recognition as UofT or UBC, but my class sizes were small enough that most of my professors knew me well and I still correspond with some of them. Access to research opportunities as an undergrad was, as Rhys said, was also much easier because there were fewer students competing for spots than at big schools.

And yes, despite growing up just south of the Canadian border people from home did ask me how I handled the winters at school. It wasn't any colder where I was than in northern new england, thanks to the maritime climate, but the stereotype persists. If you're not from a snowy place already, I recommend a big coat and a sun lamp.

Also, watch some heritage minutes in advance so you won't have to endure a friend sitting you down to binge an hour of the damn things. Yes, the painfully 90s quality is considered part of their charm. I can now quote several from memory

To answer your question, yes sometimes it is cheaper to be an international student abroad than to get a degree in the US as a domestic student. At least 2 people I graduated high school with went to Canada as international students cause they had to go out of state anyway (the cheaper in state schools didn't have the programs they wanted) and international Canadian tuition was less expensive. And that's not even counting the 5 or so of us in my graduating class who went to Canada for dual citizen reasons...

Honestly? Sound strategy. We have a good chunk of American international students up here, too.

[jechristine]

Do you think it is wise for those Americans who have the means, to leave the country while they can before the Trump administration takes over? I am truly terrified for what's about to happen. All the guardrails are off. I don't think America will have another fair and free election in our lifetime. I'm thinking of selling my place, cashing out and trying to move to a country in Europe, go to Mexico or Canada. I know visa requirements won't be easy but the alternative keeps me up. We are entering Nazi Germany and we're all bearing witness to it happening in real time with no way to stop it.

You sound like my husband, anon. I truly don’t know. My husband works for a national union, and the front page of the NYTimes right now is a story about how Trump will be exacting revenge on unions first. I teach at a school with hundreds of students who are newcomers to the U.S., most from Central America and Venezuela, and we’re getting guidance from the school district about our rights when I.C.E. shows up one day (they never did during the first term, but he promises to be even less humane now). Many friends and colleagues are immigrants and children of immigrants themselves and are worried about family members who are legal residents but not citizens. These are just the immediate first worries in my own purview.

I am still hopeful that there’s enough of us to put up a fight. Half of us didn’t want this, and even among Trump voters, I do not believe that most truly want the worst of what he’s been talking about. I do still love the promise of the U.S.A., and I think it’s worth continuing to fight for its ideals.

But I don’t know.

[hotboyfreighttrain]

officially i’m going to move to canada via student visa and hopefully become a permanent resident

note to all of the minors in lgbt, minority, and shadowed groups here that i dearly love you and just know that our government will not become completely red the second trump gets into office, with the way that laws and bills work it’s not possible (however with a full red supreme court there is trouble) you have a few breathing years, and hopefully things will work out

let’s go canada !!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[septembriseur]

Depressing political stuff

So this week I got a text from a refugee kid in the US who was like, “My brother who lives in France wants to come to my college graduation, and he paid $700 to apply for his family’s visitor visas, but there are no visa appointments until 2025 and they don’t know what to do.”

For Americans who might not know: this is actually extremely normal and common for people who require visas to enter the US. Good luck getting an appointment in the same year as your trip, even if you are applying through an embassy in Canada or Europe! Your best bet is to check the website every single day on the off chance that an earlier appointment date gets released. Otherwise, you’re just not going to your brother’s graduation/sister’s wedding/grandchild’s birth.

I think what has been weighing on me is that I was so frustrated with him for not doing the research before getting himself in this situation. If he had looked up any information, he would have known that this was the situation. And yet: why should he have known to look up the information? Nowhere in public do we acknowledge that this is the reality. If you watch films and TV, you would never know it. In his college classes, in his friends’ dorm rooms, this is not the reality, or if it is (as it actually almost certainly is for students who have family members in Latin America), it is not spoken of because it carries a stigma.

There is something vaguely Sara Ahmed in the conceptualization of stigma as something that sticks in your path, stigmatization as a condition of having-obstacles. To be stigma-free is to be free, unimpeded in movement, to exercise unstopped and unstoppable agency. But also there is this sense of the source of stigma as unspoken and unspeakable because it does not harmonize with the hegemonic narrative. It strikes a sour note. Amitav Ghosh talks about the “great derangement” of climate crisis being unrepresentable in the novel, but I think actually that is a mid-level derangement. The great derangement is something broader. And there are all these other derangements too.

[pathshalahub]

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[altschmerzes]

how worth it is it to go to law school in canada vs the us? im in undergrad in the us and ill likely practice here but im not completely sure

i can't speak to whether it's worth it if your plan is to practice in the us - my plan is, gd willing and the canadian government remains cooperative, to stay and practice in ontario - but i do know that there are states that accept canadian law degrees with no issue and just make you write the bar, but there are also a lot of states where it is significantly more complicated than that and can be an enormous pain. so like, it's possible, but may involve a major headache, especially depending on where you plan to practice.

but just speaking of law school in itself, and not the subsequent licensing headaches? holy shit i cannot speak highly enough of my experience. like, for one, because the united states is an. insane hellscape. (and don't come at me about how canada has its problems too - trust me, i know. but two things can be true at once. canada has its problems and they are serious and systemic. it is also however not the united states and this is to its serious benefit.) the tuition that i'm paying here, even as an international student? fuck it's so much cheaper.

as an international student at my school in ontario, counting for currency conversions and whatnot, i am paying about ten grand a year less than i would be paying as an in-state resident in my home state's like. state university law school - and the other important thing to consider there is that while that school is good, the school i'm in here? they're not... in the same tier, reputationally. which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but the way that people react when i mention what school i'm going to here is the way people react to 'i'm at harvard/uchicago/yale law' in the states. and for that comparison? the tuition thing stands out even more. there are about 200 law schools in the us. canada has 24. do with that information what you will, i suppose, but to me it made me feel like there was a bit more of a... security? behind the qualify of the education i was going to end up with and the likelihood there'd be name recognition and alumni networks that could help me in my career and life after graduation.

there's a bunch of other stuff to consider obviously like housing and cost of living and whatnot, and so that can get complicated. it's also worth flagging that the immigration conversation in canada is seeing a lot of handwringing about Too Many Visa Holders right now, and that includes new caps to study permits. if you - or anyone - want to chat off-anon about what the study permit application and whole. visa stuff. process was like for me, with the understanding that my experience isn't necessarily going to be representative of the changing situation, i'd be happy to do that!