Expats & Nomads · US Visas
Key Facts
—The trend. Statistics Canada has documented what it calls “second-step migration”: immigrants who first settle in one country increasingly use it as a launch pad to another, most often the United States.
—Its scale. In the flow of permanent residents leaving Canada for the US, roughly a third were not born in Canada — people treating the country as a stepping stone rather than a final home.
—The regional lesson. The same calculation faces skilled Mexicans, Brazilians, Colombians and others eyeing a US move, but the visa that fits depends heavily on which passport they hold.
