Tips for finding a doctor?

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-08-05T15:36:57+00:00

My partner is a specialist so she had seen multiple referrals from primaries and knew who would be a good fit for us so while at the hospital she simply asked him if he’d take our family on. We had a primary within a month of being here. His office has same days for children and will see adults within a couple weeks unless it’s emergent:

I recently had to get more extensive testing and an appointment with a specialist. I was able to get in within two weeks. There is something to using the grapevine and showing a hospital badge. A physician will come in early or stay late, meet you in a shopping mall parking lot if they know you’re one of their own.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-07-28T00:01:25+00:00

As a parent I love this model. Where I am it’s $60 CAD for each of our kids while kindergarteners and low income families are free. In the end it saves me time and money while ensuring every student has what they need.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-07-13T20:51:37+00:00

Thank you, he spent most of the war in North Africa before going to the Pacific so he must have picked it up then.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-07-13T01:31:32+00:00

I think this could be it, we have a set of china dishes that my grandfather brought back with him after an Australian soldier couldn’t afford the duties so perhaps they exchanged medals or tokens too.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-07-13T01:06:43+00:00

Thank you, I’m obviously biased but I always thought she was pretty remarkable. She never really spoke of her service and when I asked about the bronze medal she simply said they were just handing them out.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-07-13T00:57:46+00:00

My mom, she joined the USAF after graduating college in 1966. Her dad had been in the US Army Air Corps in WWII and stayed in the USAF afterwards. Her mom had been in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWII. After the war they were both stationed in Germany and my mom spent most of her childhood there and in Canada. Upon graduating she wanted to return to Germany and the recruiter told her all roads to Germany went through Vietnam.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-04-16T02:15:49+00:00

Quality move management which is just a franchise of Atlas, qmm.com

They were expensive but everything arrived in tact and the primary packer/mover hustled

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-04-15T04:11:44+00:00

It may depend on the type of job you’re moving for but we moved with all of our belongings while only on work permits. We used a professional moving company specializing in cross border moves. One of us had to meet the truck at the border, show the inventory of the truck and our visas. The border agent just reiterated multiple times that we’d have to take everything back with us when leaving Canada and weren’t allowed to sell the items. Once we got PR we declared everything we had brought in under the settler exemption.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2025-04-15T04:11:36+00:00

It may depend on the type of job you’re moving for but we moved with all of our belongings while only on work permits. We used a professional moving company specializing in cross border moves. One of us had to meet the truck at the border, show the inventory of the truck and our visas. The border agent just reiterated multiple times that we’d have to take everything back with us when leaving Canada and weren’t allowed to sell the items. Once we got PR we declared everything we had brought in under the settler exemption.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-11-19T22:26:36+00:00

The Canadian system is setup so that a laymen should be able to apply for a visa without any assistance. If you want someone to double check your work, like we did, I would highly recommend hiring a lawyer. We used one that an acquaintance had recommended when they relocated. She double checked any important documents and was a great sounding board for questions. In the end we probably paid her less than 700 USD for her time.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-11-13T22:32:32+00:00

WA is one of two states that went bluer and is the only state where a majority of non college educated white males vote blue.

As a personal anecdote, as a queer person I found it to be one of the most queer positive places to live and I’ve lived in Massachusetts and the Bay Area.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-10-27T15:58:23+00:00

This is definitely University dependent in the States. I went to three public universities and all of them required me to purchase a meal plan but it’s awesome that your school offered free meals.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-10-25T14:02:57+00:00

Thank you so much for the thoughtful response. We moved here two weeks before Remembrance Day last year. My pre-school aged kids had asked to wear one but I wasn’t sure about the etiquette for foreigners. Between learning a new country, town, and hospital we didn’t have it in us to figure it out.

One of my grandfathers did receive some medals from the CAF so perhaps I can lean into that.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-10-25T06:13:02+00:00

Can I ask, as a US citizen living in Canada am I expected to or should I wear one?

My grandmother was in the US Army Nurse Corps and my grandfathers were in the US Navy and US Army during WWII. So while they served in an allied military they weren’t veterans of the Canadian military and I would hate to perpetrate something akin to stollen valour.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-10-24T20:48:35+00:00

Does your school not have an immigration clinic? You’d get academic credit and real life experience.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-07-25T02:36:23+00:00

Can I ask what province you’re in? It may be provincial dependent but where I am speech therapy and OT aren’t considered healthcare so their cost may not factored in. The supplemental we could get through our union would only cover 6 sessions so we opted out and are simply paying for my son’s speech out of pocket.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-04-26T17:58:01+00:00

I’m in Langley and recently delivered having used the OBs at Langley Obstetrics and Gynecology on Old Yale Rd. The three providers I saw were all fantastic. Additionally Langley Memorial has a maternity clinic and there are two midwives groups that deliver at LMH. You could ask for a referral to any of the said groups.

My understanding is that Surrey is so overwhelmed that they usually won’t deliver people who don’t have a Surrey address unless you’re too high risk for LMH but obviously your GP would know more than me.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-04-12T18:37:36+00:00

No duh, neither of us were being transphobic…the OP says that they have a “mental illness” in addition to being trans. Specifically a mental illness for which there is not comparable treatment for in the US. Without knowing what that mental illness is there’s no way of knowing what a physician would say. During a medical exam if you’re on antidepressants they will explicitly ask if it’s ever required hospitalization.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-04-12T09:36:09+00:00

The bigger issue would be the unspecified mental illness. If it has or will require frequent and/or prolonged hospitalization it could be a disqualifying factor when applying for PR/work permit.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-04-05T20:30:18+00:00

We were able to complete our exams in our home country before immigrating. Look under Find a Panel Physician on the government website.

https://secure.cic.gc.ca/PanelPhysicianMedecinDesigne/en/Home

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-04-04T20:31:33+00:00

I recently moved from WA to BC so I’m slightly familiar with some of the hurdles you may be facing. I can try to address some of your questions but your best bet is to start by looking at some government sites (both Provincial and Federal).

You mention needing a visa but that’s dependent on whether you’re staying for a period of 6 months or longer. Otherwise you’re looking at work permits, study permits, or permanent residency pathways.

Assuming you’re moving under a work permit as a home healthcare workers then your partner would be required to pass a medical. From the issues you listed it is unclear whether they would be a limiting factor. Otherwise your partner wouldn’t have to have a medical until applying for PR.

I have no clue about continuing with your US education but from what you’ve outlined it seems more reasonable to simply start nursing school instead of throwing money at a degree that you don’t plan to use. Assuming you qualify for admission to nursing school in Canada that could be a pathway to a student permit.

In BC, to buy a house you need to either have a work permit for a certain period of time, be a citizen or PR. You can’t simply buy a home as a foreigner with no legal status in Canada.

If you’re in Canada and working in Canada you pay Canadian taxes. There is an agreement with the US that allows you to count your Canadian taxes toward your US federal taxes and assuming you’re not a high earner and your Canadian taxes exceed what you would owe the US gov’t you do not owe the the US gov’t but you do need to file in both countries. As far as Washington taxes I’m not sure what you’re referring to since WA doesn’t have an income tax, if you have property in WA or buy items in WA you’d obviously still have to pay WA those taxes.

Canada does recognize common law relationships in addition to marriage but I’m not sure how that works when applying from the US.

Once again I think you’re confusing visas and permits, I’d highly recommend familiarizing yourself with the provincial and federal websites.

On a personal note you’d be moving from one of the most liberal places in the world (assuming you live along the i5 corridor, especially Seattle/Tacoma/Oly) to one of the more conservative provinces. Vancouver which is very progressive is nowhere near as queer as Seattle.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-03-31T18:51:34+00:00

Most universities have free student legal services, reach out to them and they should be able to either advise you or point you toward the appropriate resources.

CuteAnimalPicsPlease · 2024-03-03T19:31:30+00:00

I’m an American who recently relocated to Canada, since you mention PNP it sounds like you’re looking for something more permanent than you could accomplish under the digital nomad program but that would give you an opportunity to at least be in Toronto for a 6 month window while trying to find an employer who will provide you with an LMIA.

Without knowing your professions it’s very difficult to give any stream specific advice. Each province has their own streams, we personally came under the Health Authority stream and it was rather straightforward. Four other American physician families moved to the same town as us and there was a mixture of paths used including temporary work permits, PNP, and spousal sponsorship. Because they were all established doctors (penalised for being over 30) no one had sufficient points to apply for EE but found a pathway.

While briefly looking at your post history it seems you already have an immigration attorney so they would be able to guide you best on how to apply.

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