Master the requirements process

It looks like we are finally heading in right direction. Well, we were heading there all the time just with some road blocks and pit-stops.

One thing we have learned from last year is to do everything ourselves. So this time, we have submitted our papers well in advance and then we start calling, and calling, and calling. Even while in France we were keeping calling, (try to call a toll-free Canada only number from Europe, good luck!). And we were calling. Time passed, we have returned from vacations, and we were still calling.

Finally, one beautiful day (isn't it that what they say in fairy tales), we got our approval. What a relieve!  Just a fact that I am about to go on a maternity leave, and trust me to get paid in North America, while you are on leave, is something people will die for, and was a huge motivation to renew the paperwork before the baby... You grab an opportunity and not letting it go.

So, last weekend, with lots of hopes and paperwork we headed north. Getting ourselves first to Burlington, Vermont for a great lunch, getting a beer supply in Plattsburg, New York and then up to the boarder.

I love Canadian immigration. They are so nice. I think they are the nicest people in the public authorities. The paperwork was organized very fast. When we asked for an additional info, corrections, there was not problem what so ever.

So a huge road block was removed that day. However, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my work permit.

Yes, you are reading it correctly! Just up to 24th of July this year, sex related professions were on the list of demanded professions in Canada. What are you going to do, if there is a lack of qualified and skilled workers in that area. So it was perfectly legal to get a job offer from a strip joint and apply for a 3-year work permit. Wow, how on earth Mortens company didn't think about that?

A very simple business case:

1. One registrate a strip club in one of the offices in Toronto. SimStrip as an example (checked the name is still available)

2. Give an offer (you don't even need to work as a stripper, as long as you have a job offer) to the consultants spouses/girlfriends.

3. Spouses apply for visa and get it.

4. Consultants get an open spouse visa (no need to show tons of paperwork, proof of education, etc.)

5. The company faces a minimum cost (ok, face it, they should probably invest in high-hill shoes and a push-up bra with the belt, to make it look provable while crossing the border).

And that is it. I am sure there is a demand to all kind of woman, so that could be a perfect scenario.

The worse part of all that joke is, that this was a complete legal scenario!

Oh well, I am sure some other opportunities will come along. Just for me, at that particular moment, standing there with two kids, broken foot and highly pregnant, and looking at that note, gave me tears in my eyes (joy? sorrow? hard to say! but a sense of keep living and experience things!) Definitely worth it!