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IELTS - CAD 300Credential Evaluation - CAD 250Medical test - differs from country to country around CAD 200Police Clearance - differs from country to county but not muchApplication fee for principal applicant - $550, Spouse - $550, Children - $150 eachRight of Permanent Residence fee - $490 per person (0 for children)Consultant professional fee - CAD $2000–3000 (differs from consultant to consultant, can be higher). For example, my professional fee starts from CAD 2000 for Express Entry based PR applications.If you your application is through a provincial nomination stream, you may need to pay provincial nomination application fee to the provincial immigration department which can be anything between CAD 0 to 1500 depending upon the province.Apart from the costs you incur, you also need to show some proof of funds.Settlement Fund- You need to have $24,083 as readily available savings. You need to show this fund in application and sometimes at the time of landing too.This pretty much covers it all.Please note the cost structure I have share above is an approximate for permanent residency through Express Entry. For other immigration programs, it may be entirely different.

Apart from the cost of moving people and their possessions to another part of the world, the paperwork part of immigrating to the US - petitions, data entry, data storage and updates, interview scheduling, interviewing, investigating fraud, visa issuance - is paid for with petitioners’ and applicants’ fees.

Is living in a motel cheaper than renting an apartment?Maybe. It depends on prices where you live.Last year, my son moved into a weekly motel temporarily. He paid $225/week. That included furniture (but no furnishings) and utilities. That comes out to $975/month for a studio apartment with basic utilities (no cable/internet). He had to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on furnishings (bedding, pots and pans, a vacuum, etc). The motel was not in a nice part of town. It was inhabited by people who couldn’t rent apartments or houses, who didn’t want to be tied into a lease, etc. The police were there multiple times a day.A studio apartment in the next neighborhood over (which was a fairly nice area) is $600/month. A one-bedroom is $650. But that doesn’t include any utilities at all. But even if utilities run $100/month, it’s still cheaper.But here’s the thing - my son couldn’t AFFORD to rent an apartment because of the necessary deposits. That $600 studio ALSO required first and last month’s rents ($1,200) plus a $50 key deposit plus a $60 non-refundable application fee. That means he’d have had to come up with over $1300 just to move in. And then there would be the utility deposits, which can easily run into the hundreds of dollars. He only needed the $225 to move into the weekly unit.When he was looking for a regular apartment, we found the application fees ran anywhere from $60 to $150 - and it was all non-refundable. If he was turned down, the money was wasted. He couldn’t afford that at all.