Arrival Survival Canada will help you prioritize the many situations you will face: finding a place to live; obtaining medical insurance; obtaining a Social Insurance Number; obtaining a driver's license; and enrolling the kids in school.

After those basics, you will still face a myriad of questions: how to find a job, obtain ESL training, how to get a loan and credit cards, how to buy a house, and get temporary government assistance, if necessary. While information on the above is all available out there already - in various government brochures and on hundreds of websites on Canada Immigration - it is time consuming and, for many, perhaps even impossible to find that information when it is needed. We know how hard it is, because we have spent many, many hours trying to find some answers ourselves.

What we do in this book is select the information that is needed and streamline it for easy reference. Most of the situations explained in Arrival Survival have evolved from the real-life experiences faced by Naeem and Sabrina. What we are doing is packaging all the answers in one compact resource. Included in the book are real life experiences of other immigrants and lists of important telephone numbers, websites & email addresses.