How do I go about moving to Canada and getting full citizenship?

Question

Or is that not possible? Thank you kindly. (I live in America if that helps)

Answer 1

Canada, unlike the United States, picks its immigrants based on age, education, job skills and whether you have a Canadian employment offer.  The ability to speak French is a plus, a big plus.

Answer 2

I just immigrated to the UK and they have a points based system to qualify.

As Canada is still in the British Commonwealth, they have something very similar (as does Australia).

See the link below which also includes a self assessment.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/s...

Answer 3

Of course it's possible.  Everything is possible.

There are several ways to immigrate to Canada.  

1. You can apply as a federal skilled worker under a points system, if you have enough points, you qualify and can apply for permanent residency which should take about a year and a half to process, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/s...

2. You can look at the different provinces provincial nominee programs, see which job experience could benefit you to landing a job that is on some provinces most wanted list, get a job offer, get a temporary work permit and then apply to the PNP in that province to get permanent residency which should take something less than a year, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/p...

3. If you have family in AB or MB, you may qualify for PNP family stream and don't need a job offer.

4. Get a student visa for at least a 2 year program, then get a post graduate work permit and after that apply for the new canadian experience immigration class, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/...

5. If you have experience in taking care of children, disabled or elderly, you could get a work permit as a live-in-caregiver which allows you to apply for permanent residency after 2 years of working.

I think I have covered most of the methods that could apply to you but there are others like if you meet somebody from Canada and get married or go as a refugee but being from the US, it's not very likely that you would get refugee status.

Once you have permanent resident status in Canada, you can live anywhere and work anywhere, the only things you can't do is you can't vote and you can't be outisde of Canada for more than 3 years out of every 5. When you have lived in Canada for 3 years as a PR, you can apply for citizenship which takes about a year to process.