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The requirement now insisted upon is that the applicant has already immigrated to Canada and has therefore obtained Permanent Residency. In theory Citizenship is required for Reg Force membership (which takes 3 years of residency before applying) but it is possible to obtain a waiver of this if you meet the requirement below, which is an extract taken from the CF recruiting website:
Quote : 'To be eligible for consideration for the Canadian Forces, you must meet the following minimal conditions:
* be a Canadian citizen;
o Citizens of another country who have landed immigrant (Permanent Resident) status in Canada may also be considered for enrolment when the CF has need of their skill, when the position cannot be filled by a Canadian citizen, and if the national interest would not be prejudiced. However, only under exceptional circumstances will authority be granted to enrol a citizen of another country.
and so on.
Add to that losing a rank (at least, if you are a Major you will be offered Capt on 10 yr increment, currently around $80K - not sure about Lt Col and above-this is because unlike UK where it is Lt Col, Major is the first competitive merit-based Canadian rank ) for Officers and, no matter what seniority you are given, getting 1 weeks less leave than your peers for 5 years. No wonderif you aspire to be a journeyman soldier, Australia looks most attractive!
Once you immigrate -itself at least a 1 year process (check the govt Canada CIC website to see how that works, or doesn't) you can then apply to join the CF. Note that obtaining a reliability check will take at least a year for a Brit citizen, regardless of whether you have just left the Army or not and also regardless of what foreign security clearance you already hold. Add to that the obtaining of a waiver just to apply in the first place and it is already probably going to take at least 18 months or so. On top of all this prevarication at every single level is the norm-people simply do not do their jobs because it is too difficult. Believe me I know and much as I hope things have changed, I doubt it!
First port of call in all this -before anything else- is the career management for your line of work in order to establish that the vacancies exist and that you are likely to be considered suitable, as this is really a prerequisite for joining at all. Some trades are full already while others are desperately short. Who this is depends upon the MOC/trade of course so I cannot give anything here but am sure that specific queries on career manager contacts will be freely answered in the forum.
I came through a couple of years ago when the requirement for citizenship had not been imposed -it still took 2 and a half years and that was just getting into the CF-the immigration actually took less than a year, luckily under the old rules it ran concurrently and I actually immigrated only a few months before joining..
If you want to live in Canada and be in the CF though, in my case it was all very well worth it!
I have the recent CF directive on foreign applicants as a pdf file. Happy to email it to anyone who wants it -let me know by PM.
Quote : 'To be eligible for consideration for the Canadian Forces, you must meet the following minimal conditions:
* be a Canadian citizen;
o Citizens of another country who have landed immigrant (Permanent Resident) status in Canada may also be considered for enrolment when the CF has need of their skill, when the position cannot be filled by a Canadian citizen, and if the national interest would not be prejudiced. However, only under exceptional circumstances will authority be granted to enrol a citizen of another country.
and so on.
Add to that losing a rank (at least, if you are a Major you will be offered Capt on 10 yr increment, currently around $80K - not sure about Lt Col and above-this is because unlike UK where it is Lt Col, Major is the first competitive merit-based Canadian rank ) for Officers and, no matter what seniority you are given, getting 1 weeks less leave than your peers for 5 years. No wonderif you aspire to be a journeyman soldier, Australia looks most attractive!
Once you immigrate -itself at least a 1 year process (check the govt Canada CIC website to see how that works, or doesn't) you can then apply to join the CF. Note that obtaining a reliability check will take at least a year for a Brit citizen, regardless of whether you have just left the Army or not and also regardless of what foreign security clearance you already hold. Add to that the obtaining of a waiver just to apply in the first place and it is already probably going to take at least 18 months or so. On top of all this prevarication at every single level is the norm-people simply do not do their jobs because it is too difficult. Believe me I know and much as I hope things have changed, I doubt it!
First port of call in all this -before anything else- is the career management for your line of work in order to establish that the vacancies exist and that you are likely to be considered suitable, as this is really a prerequisite for joining at all. Some trades are full already while others are desperately short. Who this is depends upon the MOC/trade of course so I cannot give anything here but am sure that specific queries on career manager contacts will be freely answered in the forum.
I came through a couple of years ago when the requirement for citizenship had not been imposed -it still took 2 and a half years and that was just getting into the CF-the immigration actually took less than a year, luckily under the old rules it ran concurrently and I actually immigrated only a few months before joining..
If you want to live in Canada and be in the CF though, in my case it was all very well worth it!
I have the recent CF directive on foreign applicants as a pdf file. Happy to email it to anyone who wants it -let me know by PM.
