[Brenda]

Btw, I know of only one Dutchy in my circle who actually became Canadian. She married a Canadian, so she keeps her Dutch nationality too. All the others I know, are still Dutch, and will stay Dutch. The only difference between being Dutch or becoming Canadian is the right to vote.

I pay the exact same taxes as anyone else, I have to oblige to the same rules and regulations, with that difference, that when I do something against the law, I can be deported as long as I stay Dutch.

Oh well, if you guys want every immigrant who is in Canada for 1095 days to become Canadian and be stuck with them when they turn out to be criminals... *shrugs*

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Brenda Brenda:

And just because it is "easily available" means you should give up your nationality?
If I could keep my Dutch, it would not have been a problem. But I can't. That makes it a problem. So it may all be "easily available" but it is not an easy decision.

Also, DD decided to NOT come to Canada. Why again? Then don't bitch at me.

So, Shep, according to DD, you are just an "expat" and your Canadian passport is a "Rainy Day Check", in case you didn't like where you are.

ESL or bad mood? Brenda, I think you're reading way too much into what DD asked. It's a pretty obvious question when you've been here as long as you have and, afaik, intend to stay. Also, I would hardly say that DD "bitched" at you. He just asked a question.

[T100]

was wondering how long it would take for "brenda" to make this about her.

[Brenda]

T100 T100:

was wondering how long it would take for "brenda" to make this about her.

FYI, I didn't.

[Brenda]

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Brenda Brenda:

And just because it is "easily available" means you should give up your nationality?
If I could keep my Dutch, it would not have been a problem. But I can't. That makes it a problem. So it may all be "easily available" but it is not an easy decision.

Also, DD decided to NOT come to Canada. Why again? Then don't bitch at me.

So, Shep, according to DD, you are just an "expat" and your Canadian passport is a "Rainy Day Check", in case you didn't like where you are.

ESL or bad mood? Brenda, I think you're reading way too much into what DD asked. It's a pretty obvious question when you've been here as long as you have and, afaik, intend to stay. Also, I would hardly say that DD "bitched" at you. He just asked a question.

5 years is long? It is, if you have stayed in Canada every day since getting here, 2 years longer than the legal requirement for applying to become a citizen.

I did not realize that that legal requirement was also the deadline to decision making or going back to where you came from.
Oh wait, it is not.

Also, as I have explained numerous times here (it is not the first time this topic comes up...) I still have my parents and other family in The Netherlands. I refuse to need to apply for a visa to go back to a country where I have lived for 35+ years. And that is what I will have to do if I would become Canadian, and need to go back for longer than 3 months.

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Brenda Brenda:

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Brenda Brenda:

And just because it is "easily available" means you should give up your nationality?
If I could keep my Dutch, it would not have been a problem. But I can't. That makes it a problem. So it may all be "easily available" but it is not an easy decision.

Also, DD decided to NOT come to Canada. Why again? Then don't bitch at me.

So, Shep, according to DD, you are just an "expat" and your Canadian passport is a "Rainy Day Check", in case you didn't like where you are.

ESL or bad mood? Brenda, I think you're reading way too much into what DD asked. It's a pretty obvious question when you've been here as long as you have and, afaik, intend to stay. Also, I would hardly say that DD "bitched" at you. He just asked a question.

5 years is long? It is, if you have stayed in Canada every day since getting here, 2 years longer than the legal requirement for applying to become a citizen.

I did not realize that that legal requirement was also the deadline to decision making or going back to where you came from.
Oh wait, it is not.

No one is saying it's a requirement. He(they/us) were just askinf the question. Feeling that 5 years is too soon to make a decision like that... completely legitimate reason imo, and that's really all u needed to say. Trust me, I know how u feel. My mom was here ove 20 years before she became Canadian. Like you, it wsn't out of lack of commitment to being here. For her it was all about sentimental attachment to her home.

[Brenda]

I didn't feel like he was just asking a question when in the same sentence, I get told that apparently, my Dutch passport is my "rainy day check for when I maybe just don't like it". First off, it is no one else's decision or business but mine, and secondly, for one who has no clue what he is talking about, definitely not his place to accuse me of being a "fake Canadian" (which is not the first time either. But I can handle that from Canadians and especially "new" Canadians. NOT from someone who does not even live here and has no clue what immigration to Canada entails.)

Had he just asked "Would you give up your Dutch citizenship to become Canadian", it would have been a whole different question.

Anyway, like whatshisface said, this topic is not about me, it is about a Canadian in Bulgaria who wants to bring his wife and (step)child over.

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Brenda Brenda:

I didn't feel like he was just asking a question when in the same sentence, I get told that apparently, my Dutch passport is my "rainy day check for when I maybe just don't like it". First off, it is no one else's decision or business but mine, and secondly, for one who has no clue what he is talking about, definitely not his place to accuse me of being a "fake Canadian" (which is not the first time either. But I can handle that from Canadians and especially "new" Canadians. NOT from someone who does not even live here and has no clue what immigration entails.)

I really don't think he meant it that way, and his reaction to your being offended would seem to bear that out.

Brenda Brenda:

Had he just asked "Would you give up your Dutch citizenship to become Canadian", it would have been a whole different question.

I feel pretty safe in assuming that that is what he meant.

Brenda Brenda:

Anyway, like whatshisface said, this topic is not about me, it is about a Canadian in Bulgaria who wants to bring his wife and (step)child over.

As if any thread here ever stays on topic

[Brenda]

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Brenda Brenda:

I didn't feel like he was just asking a question when in the same sentence, I get told that apparently, my Dutch passport is my "rainy day check for when I maybe just don't like it". First off, it is no one else's decision or business but mine, and secondly, for one who has no clue what he is talking about, definitely not his place to accuse me of being a "fake Canadian" (which is not the first time either. But I can handle that from Canadians and especially "new" Canadians. NOT from someone who does not even live here and has no clue what immigration entails.)

I really don't think he meant it that way, and his reaction to your being offended would seem to bear that out.

Then maybe, instead of saying "oh, you are in a bad mood, I must have struck a nerve, I'll come back to this topic later", he could have just said "Oops, didn't mean to offend you", which is what he did, even in his first post in this thread. "Oh, but that the application for your pr card takes so long is solely your problem, you should have been Canadian by now."

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Brenda Brenda:

Had he just asked "Would you give up your Dutch citizenship to become Canadian", it would have been a whole different question.

I feel pretty safe in assuming that that is what he meant.

His other questions and remarks in this thread made me think otherwise.
The answer to the question, btw, is NO, not as long as my parents are still alive.

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Brenda Brenda:

Anyway, like whatshisface said, this topic is not about me, it is about a Canadian in Bulgaria who wants to bring his wife and (step)child over.

As if any thread here ever stays on topic

True dat!

[desertdude]

SO much for that PMS thing being a myth huh !

[raydan]

desertdude desertdude:

SO much for that PMS thing being a myth huh !

You are just a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

[Brenda]

desertdude desertdude:

SO much for that PMS thing being a myth huh !

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

desertdude desertdude:

SO much for that PMS thing being a myth huh !

I thought you were too old for PMS now?

[Brenda]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Brenda Brenda:

desertdude desertdude:

SO much for that PMS thing being a myth huh !

I thought you were too old for PMS now?

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