lol But, Quebec's attitude towards language HAS caused people to leave. It IS a big issue there.
Only French speaking persons permitted to sponsor family class immigrants in Quebec
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No doubt about it. I`m not saying I agree with it, but unfortunately Quebec is excessively nationalistic, and its nationalism is mainly reflected through its language, whether we like it or not. I`m not saying English Canada is any better of course. It likewise is excessively nationalistic, and, also like Quebec, insufficiently patriotic (two very different things in my book), but in English Canada it doesn`t manifest itself through language quite ads much, but rather through anti-Americanism, francophobia, or opposition to immigration. Same problem, different manifestation.
Please don't tell me these are the forms you want in English...
Immigration-Québec - Undertaking application - Kit A - without financial requirements
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Yep the US will always respect your language rights, as long as you speak english.
If its Spanish though, which is not less an official language than English and has been spoken in some regions longer, well lets see you pull that one off in some areas.
Or if you speak French, what was the government policy in Arcadian regions again?
Get off your high horse, its no different in the USA except you are the dominant language there.
Nothing stopping you from getting help. As stupid as it is, you can still proceed with your sponsorship plan - or you can leave altogether. *shrug*
I've had to pick up and drop off 'papers' at different embassies, through out the city, and a lot of them require cetain documents that will be processed by their government to be filled out in their country's official language - (of course there are exceptions)here you ususally have a choice of two. Some don't even have English forms, like China. Then the staff can hardly speak English, they point and shake their head at you and the mistake on the form, then a guard with white gloves comes out and points at you, then the door - it scares me. :-(
There is actually a point to this. It saves the government money in having to compete with the private sector for higher-salaried bilingual staff. This way it can hire lower-paid monolingual staff and thus save you, the taxpayer, a few more cents. It's a matter of efficiency. Besides, they were kind enough to include an English translation online so you can just transfer the info from the English form to the French one. So easy you should even be able to do it from English to Chinese.
Honestly, I like the efficiency of such a system and would love to see Ontario adopt the same system.
I fully agree. And just like I agree with the Quebec government adopting but one official language of administration, I'm all for the US governments to do the same. Makes government more efficient.
I've had no such problem in China. They do in fact have forms in English, and I find it a waste of ink. Why should the Chinese taxpayer be wasting all his money for his government to print forms in English when it'll be of no use to the average Japanese resident anyway. Why the special privilege just for us? We're spoilt around the world and we still complain. Well, speak loudly and slowly in the Queen
s English while looking at them condescendingly, and who knows, maybe somebody will understand.
I've never been to China.
I also think the nature of the business we were doing was slightly different. However, as with Quebec forms, the filing instructions are available in English.
Also, a common complaint with other people waiting, was the non-existent english forms available at the embassy and the inabilty of embassy staff to communicate in english, what exactly the error on their forms, filled out in the countires official language actually was. But again, the nature of my visit was not travel related, so I don't know what was lost in translation.
If you would look at this form
http://www.immigration-quebec.gouv.qc.ca/publications/en/sponsorship/A-0546-GA-dyn.pdf
You would see that HALF is in English and the other HALF is exactly a match in French.. Is it that hard to compare the two and match the Block ?
This is a simple Fill in Names, Check off Yes or No.. There is no long answers to give.. How could Quebec ( a French Province ) make anymore simple for you ?
Or as ZZ says get a Lawyer or Notary Public and get the darn forms filled at minimum cost if your so afraid to do it yourself..
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My sister who speaks no Dutch just moved to a Dutch territory.. She had to go thru the whole thing for a second time and DID Not complain and say, OH MY GOD LETS RUN BACK TO CANADA..
Get real..
Better yet. Respect the local population and learn the language. OK, to be fair to you, I do recognize that it's not easy to learn a second language. But learning the basics is doable at least.
Machjo that is exactly what my sister is doing for the second time in her life.. She had the basics in Dutch and lost it when she moved away in 1985 but at almost 58 years old she is willing to learn it all again for the 3 to 5 years she will live there.. No complaining and no whining.. But they did have to complete the forms, including a full physical, police check and blah blah blah in Dutch.. They managed because they wanted to.. He is retired but took a working contract there for 3 years.
What I hated about this posting was the "I wanted to move back to the US.."
In 1979 I filled in US immigration documents and they ONLY came in ENGLISH. I didn't complain and throw a hissy fit.. I decided to move to BC instead of CA when I was accepted. I wonders if this person knows there is French people in the US ?
When in Rome do as the Romans..
Last I heard immigration was a Federal responsibility. The Federal government is officially bilingual so to not supply forms in English is a violation of your rights by a provincial government in an area that it has no jurisdiction.
Why should they have to go to the expense of hiring an interpreter??You can't just hire an interpreter? There are plenty of bilingual people in the province who could help you. I had to do that to get my living permit in the Czech republic. I guarantee you, it was a lot harder to find an English- Czech speaker in BC than it would be to find an English-French speaker in Quebec
Canada is officially bilingual, so quebec should abide by that and have the English option. If they don't like it, too bad...
Sorry taxslave but the Conservatives gave Quebec the right to Immigration selection in 1991..
Immigration: The Canada-Quebec Accord (BP-252E)
Sounds to me like you need a interpreter/translator
On a side note and not targeted to the original poster, its not hard to learn the basics of the french language in Canada(especially in the east) even if you have trouble learning a 2nd language we are just surrounded by it. Ive learnt more from reading the french labels and street signs then from my french teachers as a child. But that's my opinion
On a side note and not targeted to the original poster, its not hard to learn the basics of the french language in Canada(especially in the east) even if you have trouble learning a 2nd language we are just surrounded by it. Ive learnt more from reading the french labels and street signs then from my french teachers as a child. But that's my opinion
Quebec's official language is French, and I support that (if anything, other governments should follow Quebec's lead). Official bilingualism is too expensive. As for the 'too bad' part, I don't think any Quebec bureaucrat is sweating any bullets over this one. I think it's the applicant who's suffering from this.