HI PoohPoohMaMa,
I am not sure if I want to do that, but I think it has no problem for it to obtain it in the future. Or do it when I have a chance to go back to HK in the future.
My husband has so many colleagues to work in HK but their parent are immigrants long time ago and they just need to prove that their parent is HK resident before. Anyway it is too long to think as I doubt they like to go back to HK. Currently my daughter cannot speak Chinese and I doubt they can adapt the life there.
My older daughter is born in HK, so she has no problem and I guess it is easy to lie to govt that I has intention to stay and got the ID card for the second one when she is older.
How about your daughter? My life is very different from yours as I need to consider my husband who doesnt like to live in HK and my daughter listen to all our conversation in english at home and her first language is english for sure.
I did ask the immigration office last year. Since both myself and my hubby are Canadian citizen when my daughter was born and we don't have proof to show our intention to stay in HK for long term, I couldn't apply for HK residency for my daughter. Plus I think it think it will take around 6 months for the process.
However, I heard so many other versions here in BK on this issue. I am not sure.
Since both of us live in Canada when we were teenager, we think here is our home. No intention to move back unless there is a special "calling" la.
PoohPoohMaMa,
My family still in HK and I think there is no problem for me.
By the way, it is true that many overseas born chinese they came back to work in HK and get the ID card easily. You know my husband work in HK for 4 years and half of them are overseas born Chinese who dont even speak Cantonese.
Do you still have family in HK? My husband always say I am a good lier and I always get thing done easily while he has hard time. Yes, dealing with immigration takes some techniques and you need to lie in order to achieve your goal. I guess you are living here for too long and become very honest!
I don't have family in HK, but my husband's whole family is still there. We are applying my in law's coming.
I think those who born before 1997 are easily to get the HK residency. Rules changed after 1997 which affecting our children. Well, I will think about that later when I need to.
HI PoohPoohMaMa,
Dont worry about the HK citizenship! It is too far to think about it.
Does your daughter like Dora? Or any cartoon characters? My daughter loves Dora very much as I always tease her as Dora sister as they both have same hair style.
Now she is older, she loves Daniel Cook and Emily Yeung and she knows almost all cartoon's song from Treehouse. Yesterday she starts to do her ballet dancing as she learn it from Angelina (another cartoon that I never watch). She likes to go to library and borrow 10DVD each week and watch it in her room. We are thinking to buy a LCD TV that stuck on the wall as she seems getting too close to TV.
What activities your daughter likes? Or can she explain herself easily? My daughter didnt speak well until she is 3yr and with 1.5yr in group daycare, she pick up everything. She listen to our conversion and answer on behalf of her dad! She is the back seat driver all time. She will tell you to stop when it is red and green to go when the car still pile up at the front!! Now she asked about the time and after you told her, she will ask you what does it mean of 6 o'clock?
My daughter isn't very verbal person, but she picks up a lot now. She knows Dora, Barney, Emily Young, Franklin, Tooby... most of the Treehouse characters. But she doesn't have a favorite one yet.
She loves playing lego, the kitchen set, watching TV. She also loves playing in the playground too. She can climb the moneybar. I plan to send her to ballet class in September because she loves dancing. She always takes out a dress to wear because she wants to dance!
Right now, she keeps saying wanna see the baby - little brother. We brought her into the ultrasound room, so she remembers that when I went to have the checkup.
PoohPoohMaMa,
Dont under estimate kids. My daughter cannot say a word at 2.5yr and the group daycare transform her.
Is it too early to send her to ballet? I sent my daughter to swimming class last month and she loves it. I put her to gymnastic class, but I think it is waste as she is too young. My neigbour send her daughter to ballent before, but she said they learn the same gesture on each class and the daughter get bored and stop it.
I wish my daughter can swim well and when she is older, then she can work as a life guard to make some pocket money. I got my life guard certificate when I was about 19yrs but never work as life guard.
I am thinking to send her to skating class in JAN, but havent really sign up yet as I worried snow may come again. Last week we completely stop driving untill the snow clean up!
Hi Spdwong, Xother, PoohPoohMaMa, Calgary, shanjun, tazmanic,
Hello everybody!
It is surely a tough decision to make whether to stay in HK or move back to Canada for me. Can anyone share their story?
Spdwong, you mentioned that you are thinking about moving back to Canada now your BB is 11 months old. What is your plan?
Bryan-mom,
As we have shared most of our stories in the past, I think now it is your turn to start your story.
When did you come to Canada and why you left? Just wonder if you decide to move back, so why you want to come back again? It is never easy to start a new life in a new country and why you want to do it again?
It is funny to see so many HK people repeat the same thing all over again and I just wonder if that happen to other nations?
I guess my stoy is similar to many.
I immigrated w/ my family in my late teens. And studied in university. After getting my degree, I did not know what to do, so I decided to come back to HK to try to make a living. Since then I have lived, worked, studied for a Masters, know my husband, got married & now have a bb in HK. But through out all these years, I have kept close ties w/ Canada, as my parents live in Vancouver. I always visit once a year. Throughout the years, I have this idea in the back of my mind that I will move back to Canada eventually. But when is eventually ... ???
My situation is very similar to yours, but the only difference is I didn't go back to HK after university. Actually I did plan to go back while I was studying in U; however, I met my bf (now husband) when I was in U2. He was in Toronto and still studying, so I moved to Toronto instead. Working, getting married, having a baby, so I didn't think about moving back to HK.
Once working here, I find it's hard to adopt the working environment in HK. "Getting used to be beggar and too lazy to be a governor."
Bryan-mom,
My story is different. I born and brought up in HK and went to Australia to study. In school, I met my current husband and he came to HK to marry me and start our life. As he is originated from India, it is very hard to develop his career in HK. Because of him, we chose to migrate to Canada rather than Australia as I dont like the people in Australia who are very racist. We have no friend, no relatives and my husband even never been to Canada. We are believe what we can do to survive. Yes, we did. After 3 years here, we bought our house, have our car, both are working and have a decent salary. My daughter is 4 years old and expecting a 2nd one due next JUN.
I am a simple person and I told myself that I just need a house, a car and a happy family. Now I got everything I want in life.
You know the worse thing I dont want to see is to be separated. I have been married almost 8 years and I never thought to be apart from my husband. I value him so much and I am willing to take risk and start my life here. Now I look back, I made a right choice. He is happy and I also got a job I like.
In your case, I am not sure if your husband is willing to come with you. If possible, give the kids a happy family rather than blindly move back. If you are Canadian, your kids will be Canadian no matter where they are. Hope you make a good choice in your life.
I studied in United Kingdom, right after I graduate I landed with my family to Edmonton and then I go back to HK to work. Because at that time, I just graduated, I want to try working in HK. After several years of working, I move to Vancouver alone, working a couple of years. At that time the economy was bad, I can find a job there, so I move to HK again and then I worked in HK for plenty of years.
Then I met my husband, he worked in Toronto (but his family is not in Toronto) this year we got married and I moved here.
I also think I have to be with my husband. Since he is well established here, so I am the one to move. But no matter which place we will end up be in, we will always stay together.
Life is so short and we were not young anymore, we dont want to be apart.
rabbit2006,
May I ask you what is the professional of you and your husband? Yes, the first year is always tough regardless. If you dont have financial problem, how about re-educated yourself? Or do volunteer job?
Besides sister, do you have any other relatives here?
I agree with most of the you that being with the loved one and they are happy is the most important. Being content is very key to be able to live here happily.
shanjun,
can I say you are from the older generation as I guess after 97, all immigrants are either rich or with skills. If you dont have any one of them, you cannot survive. Even with skills, there are plenty of unemploy immigrants around us.
no - i did not studied overseas. I moved to here simply my husband got no job in HK. and my job will be "cut off" at that time.
so we thought about going to other place to start. my Husband got brother/sister here (but not me), and said canada is a multi-cultural country, so chinese will be easy to adopt.
so we are here - unfortunately, we picked up the wrong timing - SARS.. so my husband can't get a job at that time. and we decide to shift role. he is the houseman and he loves his current job.
hey Xothers, not everyone come here is rich. Even we have so called skills, how many of us could get the same job as before, some of them could not even go back to their own field.
i could only say I am lucky, got into the same old field. I could not claim my self rich (in$$) but in here I am rich in the family life... (compare to what I have in HK) and I am satisfy with that...
doggie,
I never say only rich people come here. I said either rich or with skills. My previous landlord is the type without money and no skills. They came here to work in the factory (in old days) and study english and bring up their child. She said she worked at night shift and the husband work at day time in order to save child care. I wonder if any immigrants will do that nowadays? Remember that is in old days as now you cannot even get a factory job in canada.
You didnt study overseas but how about your husband? If you never live or study overseas, do you think you will come? I doubt about that? When you decide to come, I believe you will think about whether you can survive or not, right?
Regarding getting rich, in Canada, I believe re-educated is must in order to improve yourself. The skills you have in HK might not fit in Canada and that why the govt encourage everyone to have further study. I can see some many immigrants getting back their life after trying hard. I know I am not good on study and I sacrified it to my husband and I hope one day he can come up and I just retire to look after my kids.
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