Hi there, I hope someone can help me out here.
I am a Canadian citizen from Toronto (lived here for most of my life). My husband is also a Canadian citizen. I am in the healthcare administration field and he is a finance grad gearing up for his MBA while working as a chef. We are in our late 20s-mid 30s. We are interested to take a break from life in the Western world and migrate to another country in the Southeast Asia region in a few years and so have started researching. We're considering Philippines and would like to know the immigration process. We're more interested in obtaining a PR status rather than just live there on Visa and rely on an employer to sponsor us (I know it's a very hard case to proove why a stranger is better than a local to do a job. It's the same here in Canada Being a permanent resident will make things easier).
What do we need to have or do, how much $ do we need to have in our account...etc to have permission to land in the country and how many years do we have to stay there to obtain Permanent Residency? Also how is the job market there concering the healthcare, business/finance or even tourism/hospitality industry? None of us have any Philippino background (our families are from South Asia).