An Indian-origin Canadian, Keerthy Vinukonda, recounted the hardships that she needed to undergo after arriving in Canada from India, although Canada is now her house, as she bought her citizenship final 12 months. IN CBC’s First Particular person, Vinukonda wrote that she studied pharmacy in India however she needed to work at accommodations distant from the place she was dwelling. Braving the cruel climate of Canada, she spent 20 hours every week simply commuting to jobs at a number of eating places. On the identical time, she was getting ready for a pharmacist equivalency examination in Canada.“As soon as upon a time, I additionally used to dream of coming to Canada. However my goals didn’t embody the twists and turns I might expertise in my journey to turning into a Canadian,” Vinukonda wrote. After finishing her pharmacy diploma in India’s Acharya Nagarjuna College, Vinukonda arrived in Toronto in a examine allow in 2016, accomplished a healthcare administration program in 2017 after which bought one other certificates from a publicly funded establishment. “Given the excessive ranges of unemployment for younger, educated professionals in India, it was tough to discover a job — even with my diploma — so I made a decision to review overseas,” she wrote, explaining her determination to depart India within the first place. After acquiring Canadian diploma, she bought a piece allow however needed to work six days every week as a shift supervisor assigned to a few eating places. She defined that the lodge job, because it’s thought-about Canadian expert work expertise, certified her for the Specific Entry stream of immigration and in 2021, she was invited to use for a PR. In 2024, she grew to become a Canadian citizen. “Regardless of graduating ‘top quality with distinction’ in India, I used to be unable to go the Canadian pharmacy equivalency exams. I used to be emotionally exhausted and bodily burned out from commuting lengthy distances to work a job that was unrelated to my research. Though I later discovered work as a pharmacy assistant, I can’t declare to be a pharmacist in Canada,” she wrote. “Given what I had gone via, I want I would heard extra reasonable views from individuals already in Canada slightly than from immigration counselling companies in India, which marketed that you could possibly earn more cash in a single month than individuals in India make in a single 12 months. I believed I might present a luxurious way of life for myself and my household,” she wrote.
