I’m *finally* sending off my application for evaluation of my legal credentials by the Canadian bar. With any luck, I’ll get off with only a few exams and be able to take them in August instead of January.
Now I just need to schedule my physical and get my FBI record back. Whee!
What? Canadian bar? That’s one possibility I never considered, and one jurisdiction I wouldn’t grumble about not being able to waive into…
If you don’t mind sharing helpful pointers, they would be greatly appreciated.
Here are the guidelines for foreign attorneys and here is helpful information on the skilled worker immigration program.
You have an FBI reccord? Does everyone or did you get in trouble for something? (if you don’t mind my asking)
No, I had to submit my fingerprints to the FBI in order to get a certification that I have no record.
I did get arrested as a juvenile once (shoplifting), but only the once, and it was expunged.
I’ve been fingerprinted several times, all job-related.
The first time when I was working for a company that built nuke plants, other times for bonding and jobs in the securities industry.
Many people have fingerprint records with the feds without having been arrested.
Ditto, and the amount I got caught stealing came out to $6.66. I consider it an omen.
When do they take back your New-York license and condemn you to exile in the frozen north? (assuming that Homeland Security get the right apartment block, of course)
Everything I’ve heard indicates that our bar exam is quite a bit easier than the American one, so I doubt you’ll have too many problems. Getting into law school is supposedly the hardest part of the whole experience here, since we have fewer than 25 of them in the entire country, including both the civil and common law schools.
I’m curious about the physical. Is it to screen for diseases like HIV/AIDS and such? Or maybe Canada doesn’t welcome those who may become a burden to their national healthcare program.
I wonder if you could be rejected for having a heart condition, bad knees, or failing eyesight. How far do they take it?
zuzu:
Re Yay, me.
Yay, you.
Brace yourself though. The world is different west of the 100th Meridian, regardless of U.S. or Canada.
From what I’ve heard from other people who’ve gone through this, you are checked for AIDS and syphillis and active TB and for any conditions that indicate you’re going to be a chronic drain on the health care system, a danger to others or unable to work. Pretty standard for immigration.