My permanent residency has been approved.

[carpetbagger]

Moving to Red Deer in June.

[SheltieLover]

1. Congrats!

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Congratulations.

[2naSalit]

3. Congrats!

I wish I could do that too. My funds have me trapped here, at this point. My friends with dual citizen ship are all leaving to other countries.

Enjoy it for those of us who can't leave!

[Ilikepurple]

4. Congrats, as long as Alberta stays a Canadian province;)

I haven’t been there for a while, but I grew up close to the Idaho panhandle and I thought it was conservative.

Edited to say i might have come off a little to snarky. I do congratulate you and hope your move to Canada. I have many relatives just north of there.

[carpetbagger]

8. That's what I told my realtor.

I think it's safe for the next several years, and by then I'll be one of those people who gets to decide.

[Ilikepurple]

13. Have you decided where you stand on the real battle for Alberta? Oilers or Flames?

Red Deer’s kinda in the middle.

[True Dough]

5. How long did the entire process take?

Enjoy the maple syrup and hockey (oh, and a sane government).

[carpetbagger]

9. 6 months.

I still have another month or two before my card is in hand, but I got approval (technically, I just sent off my P1 packet to IRCC yesterday for them to start my COPR).

The hockey thing will be funny. When I was a kid in New York, my neighbour was a man we called Mr. Trottier.

[True Dough]

10. As in Bryan Trottier?

He was a damn fine player. That whole Islanders era was incredible. Potvin, Gillies, Bourne, Potvin Tonelli, Billy Smith. Al Arbour behind the bench.

RIP Mike Bossy. That one hit hard.

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Congratulations and good luck!

In four years you can become a citizen and help end Danielle Smith’s political career, if she hasn’t been ejected by voters before then.

[sorcrow]

7. Great news

Good for you.

[PJMcK]

11. Alberta?

We’ve bought a place in Panama and secured our visas/licenses/IDs for full-time residence. As our banker said, we’re almost Panamanian! We have all the rights and privileges but we can’t vote.

Great good luck with your new adventure!

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. Took me four years and Congressional intervention to get my wife her green card

If you look it up, you can see my long documented struggles (including my emotional and psychological breakdown that the process caused) to bring my wife here.

[mgardener]

14. Lucky you!