{"id":5837,"date":"2025-09-21T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:06:26","slug":"another-fake-i-moved-abroad-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/09\/21\/another-fake-i-moved-abroad-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Another fake &#8220;I moved abroad&#8221; story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The media loves stories about Americans who have moved abroad. As well documented on this blog, the stories are all the same &#8220;<em>America is awful, so this individual, couple, or family moved to country X where life is wonderful<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today brings another in this genre of misleading stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-americans-seeking-refuge-from\">The Americans seeking refuge from Trump in Canada<\/a>. (I think the author, who is an immigrant to Canada, herself, knows better &#8211; she&#8217;s done much good work.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story features 3 <em>ordinary <\/em>Americans who easily packed up and moved to Canada &#8211; except no, not representative of ordinary Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their first subject is a trans person who has applied for political asylum in Canada. About 245 people have applied for asylum in Canada from the US, this year. You need to be in a special &#8220;protected class&#8221; of allegedly oppressed persons to apply for political refugee status. Which grants a 2-year visa, after which the refugee status may be granted or denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2nd example in the story is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/randall-cole-191b80205\/details\/experience\/\">someone who moved from Louisville to Canada<\/a>. Per the story, above, he is a dual language (English, French) speaking gay psychotherapist who works with the LGBTQIA2+ community. Born in the U.S., he lived and work in the UK for some time and previously did a study abroad in Africa. As a health care worker, and as someone who speaks French, he receives significant additional points in Canada&#8217;s points-based immigration system. (Up to 50 points for speaking French, up to 135 points for having a Master&#8217;s degree, and in a &#8220;category-based&#8221; health care hiring advantage.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 3rd example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/amycreyer\/?originalSubdomain=ca\">a woman<\/a> whose son was already a dual citizen of Canada, having been born there, and the U.S. (because at least one parent is American.) After cross checking other online info (<a href=\"https:\/\/amycreyer.substack.com\/p\/a-return-to-my-roots?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">her own blog!<\/a>), she had an internal company transfer from the US to Canada in 2019, was working in Canada, gave birth to a son, who then received dual citizenship. If you have a close family member who is Canadian, then you qualify for family sponsorship in Canada.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes &#8211; Americans are flocking to Canada &#8211; it&#8217;s so easy anyone can do it! <em><strong> If you have special privileges!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media fiction about Americans moving abroad continues every day.  Thiis story is quite something, and nonsense like the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}