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I have a few years to get you up to speed, so I'll keep this first entry as brief as possible.
Our Canadian dream started about 17 years ago during a trip to my wife's aunt, on Vancouver island.
We stayed for three weeks, visiting Victoria, Vancouver, and driving through the Rockies to Calgary.
We fell in love with Canada during that holday, and our dream of a new life began.
On returning to Scotland, we started researching the imigration criteria. We were young and naive, and after a couple of months we realised it was nothing more than a pipe-dream.
Twelve years and two children later, we re-visited the idea again, when Ailsa had a very slight opportunity of a work transfer to Mississauga.
But again, it was not to be. We decided, or so we thought, that we would no longer pursue this silly dream.
However, since the start of 2011), Ailsa has been traveling to Burlington, to visit a newly acquired branch of the company in which she works. The subject of job transfer arose again, and started to look positive.
We booked a holiday/recce trip to Ontario, where we would stay with friends for a couple of weeks. (Full report here: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=725236 )
This trip really confirmed that we wanted to emigrate to Canada.
The option for an Intra-company transfer is a possibility, but not something we are going to hang around waiting for, so we have started the Imigration process ourselves.
We are going the FSW route (Federal Skilled Worker).
So far we have:

• IELTs test
• Police reports
• Collected almost all documets (birth/marriage etc)
• Filled in most of the Visa application
  

Still to do:

• Proof of funds (House valuations/mortgage statement)
• Get 6 passport photos each, (which is a pain since the machines only do 5)
• Get a couple of the trickier certificates, like Academic, and parents marriage cert

And then we will be ready to send off our Visa applications.

Then the waiting game begins.