More and more Americans are looking for a road to Canadian citizenship after Donald Trump has won the presidential elections in November.
Now that Americans stare potential price jumps to the gas pump and in the supermarket while Trump is making his worldwide rates, the urgency to leave has only grown for some.
Immigration lawyers in the United States and Canada say they hear from more people who want to leave their lives in the US forever.
Evan Green, a managing partner at Green and Spiegel Advocatenkantoor in Toronto, told Spectrum News that after Trump's victory he has become the number of calls by Americans that wants to come to Canada.
“What we are now is a period of increased uncertainty,” said Green. “People know what's coming, and that's why they are much more motivated to move.”
Zach Ahlstrom, a senior lawyer for Berardi Immigration Law in Buffalo, New York, also said that Trump's victory is the most important factor in Americans who want to flee the country.
“During the Biden administration we probably received one or two phone calls a month,” Ahlstrom told Spectrum News. “Since the new administration came into office, we probably had one to two a week.”
Green said that the people calling in his law firm fall into four different categories, three of which say they believe that they are specifically vulnerable to Trump.
Americans who are dissatisfied with President Donald Trump's policy are increasingly looking at their neighbor in the North, Canada, for Safe Haven (depicted: a man walks through Toronto-Pearson Airport)
Immigration lawyers from both Canada and the United States have reported an increase in interest to Americans who want to move to Canada since Trump won in November. Evan Green (left) He has three -time the number of calls from Americans who want to come to Canada. Likewise, Zach Ahlstrom (right) has seen many more conversations under Trump than during Joe Biden's term of office
The first group are people with direct family ties with Canada, so that they can request citizenship if they have a parent or grandparent who are citizens of the country.
Green said that High-Net Worth-individuals whose families escaped from the Second World War in the 1940s have been looking for an exit plan.
Moreover, he said he received phone calls from remarkable people who have been criticized for Trump and LGBT families, especially those who have transgender loved ones.
People also go to social media to express their frustration about the second Trump administration, so that Facebook groups are devoted to those who want to move to Canada.
Sam Keane, a resident of the state of Washington, joined one of these Facebook groups on Friday, the day before Trump officially delivered 25 percent rates in Canada and Mexico, plus a 10 percent extra rate for Chinese import.
Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum came to an agreement on Monday morning to postpone the rates for Mexican goods for a month. Trump is planned to talk to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at 3 p.m.
“Due to the rapidly rotting political environment, it is becoming less and less feasible for me to present a future for myself in the US,” Keane posted on the page of the group, which has more than 31,000 members.
She said she is planning to pick up everything, to get a work visa and move to Kelowna, a city in the southern part of the province of British Columbia.
Many of the Americans who post on social media flirt with leaving the country did this around the time that Trump officially hit Canada, Mexico and China.
An anonymous poster that said they were looking for relocation to Canada 'for probably known reasons,' Fear of Canada will soon shift in a right -hand direction. This is a reference to Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, who is seen as the favorite to succeed Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister
Another woman, Jamie Swenson, placed on January 27 in the group that she and her husband were looking for ways to move 'from America for safety'.
Shanae Scott placed on Monday, the day before Trump's rates will come into force that she and her family had “officially decided to move to Canada.”
An anonymous poster that said they were looking for relocation to Canada 'for probably known reasons,' Fear of Canada will soon shift in a right -hand direction now that the current Prime Minister Trudeau will resign before the October elections.
Pierre Poilievre and his conservative party blow the Liberals from Trudeau out of the water in the current poll.
'As soon as there is a new PM, probably from the conservative party … How much is that expected to change Canada? Will the atmosphere become comparable to the current condition of the US? “The anonymous poster wrote.
“We don't mind a difference in opinions when it comes to the government, but we don't want to uproot our family and make a big switch to another area where the government takes away rights.”
The reality for most of these people, especially if they do not yet have a family with Canadian citizenship, is that obtaining a residence requires a lot of government bureaucracy.
Green said that the easiest way to get to Canada is if you can get hold of a student visa.
Even this avenue, however, is starting to sharpen, just like in 2024, the Canadian government accepted about 35 percent fewer studies than the year before.
Depicted: the border entrance to Canada from Buffalo, New York, one of the busiest crossings to the country
The other option is to obtain a Canadian work permit, which in most cases requires that the person already has a vacancy.
To get this type of permit, the applicant must submit biometrics and he should take a medical exam that can add to the application time for more than three months.
From January 29, the average processing time of the work visa for an American life outside of Canada is four months.
Becoming a full -fledged Canadian citizen is even more difficult if a person has no family to sponsor them.
You must be a permanent resident who has lived in the country three of the past five years.
You must also pass a citizenship test, submit taxes and prove that you have skill in English or French, the two official languages ​​of Canada.
