From India to Canada, A Comprehensive Guide to Immigrating Successfully

by Nisha Patel

"From India to A Comprehensive Guide to Immigrating Successfully" is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to make a successful move from India to Canada. Written by immigration experts, this guidebook offers practical advice on every aspect of the immigration process, including eligibility, documentation, and navigating the Canadian job market. With helpful tips and insights on settling in Canada, readers will gain a deeper understanding of Canadian culture and customs. Whether you are planning to make the move alone, with your family, or for work, this book will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to make a successful transition to your new life in Canada.

21 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 3, 2023

About the author

Nisha Patel is a queer spoken word poet & artist. She is the City of Edmonton’s Poet Laureate, and the Canadian Individual Slam Champion, and has been performing and writing in her community for five years. In 2021, she will be acting as one of the Edmonton Public Library’s Writers in Residence. She is the founder of Moon Jelly House, a publishing house centering the voices of marginalized poets by publishing chapbooks for emerging spoken word artists. She is two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word finalist. During this time, Nisha was also recipient of the Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award, and is the current Executive Director of the Edmonton Poetry Festival, Western Canada’s largest poetry festival.

Over the years, Nisha has performed across Canada and the world from small town Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to metropolitan Seoul, South Korea. She has visited over 15 cities during her three Canadian and European tours. With over 175 performances, Nisha is committed to furthering her goals of writing and reading to audiences that need it. Her poetry speaks to themes of race, her disability, feminism, and identity, focusing strongly on her struggles and triumphs as a woman of colour. She strives to build strong relationships, mentorship, and opportunities for artists around her, believing in the possibility and forgiveness of the Edmonton arts scene. As well, Nisha has become a key member of the national poetry community, serving three years on the board of SpeakNorth, Canada’s spoken word collective, and founding a nationally-reaching queer femme South Asian artist collective, MAZA, in 2019.

Nisha is an alumnus of the University of Alberta School of Business. She seeks to combine her academic skills and knowledge with her artistic practice, offering workshops on financing, grants, and management for artists through a variety of organizations. She has mentored youth and mature poets alike during two back to back residencies at The Nook and The Sewing Machine Factory in Edmonton.

Nisha works to further her goal of building a stronger artistic community through the only way she knows how: living in her truth.