I’m Moving to Canada

Here’s step 1 of the process so you can do it too.

Rachael Wood
3 min readJul 26, 2022
Photo by sebastiaan stam on Unsplash

I had always thought about taking a risk and moving out of the country. I am what they call “wanderlust” — I live to see the world.

My significant other and I have always joked about moving out of America. He always brought up Canada as being his go-to country. I didn’t care where we went as long as we hightailed it out of here and could financially visit our families on the regular — seeing as we are both family-oriented.

With the wake of recent tragedies within the States, the want and need to move away grew impeccably large. Thus, the most reasonable choice would be to move in with our neighbors north.

The minute I told my S.O. that I was serious about moving — though I had always been, just a little hesitant to move forward with the process — he quickly started a quick investigation on to how to do so.

There were two ways we could go: the least-financially burdened way or the easiest way.

The least financially burdened way is to visit this site and find the option that suits you. The quickest way is to apply for Canadian residency, if you have no family relations with a Canadian citizen, is applying for Express Entry, which means having…

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Rachael Wood

Musician by day, writer by night. Still trying to figure out this thing we call life.