{"id":10746,"date":"2016-09-08T19:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/fr\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T19:22:49","slug":"british-google-searches-spike-move-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/british-google-searches-spike-move-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"British Google Searches Spike on \u2018How to Move to Canada\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BritishFirst Americans, now the British. Google searches for \u2018move to Canada\u2019 spiked on Friday as the UK voted to leave the European Union in a referendum that reverberated around the world.<\/p>\n

Following in the footsteps of Americans\u00a0concerned by the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency<\/a>, the British began frantically looking for alternative options as turmoil took hold following the \u2018Brexit\u2019 vote.<\/p>\n

The pound plummeted, financial markets crashed and British Prime Minister David Cameron resigned as even the leaders of the leave campaigned were shocked by the impact of their victory.<\/p>\n

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Read our guide on how to move to Canada\u00a0<\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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As the drama unfolded, Britons fearing for the future of their country began to explore the possibility of moving here.<\/p>\n

Google Trends showed a 100 per cent increase in searches for \u2018move to Canada\u2019 as a direct result of the referendum result.<\/p>\n

The search company does not provide real numbers, but its \u2018search volume index\u2019 records an average number of queries as \u20181\u2019. On Friday, the index was 100.<\/p>\n

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The data also shows that more people from Wales conducted the search than anyone else.\u00a0 Welsh people also voted to leave the EU.<\/p>\n

In Scotland, where the vote swayed overwhelmingly towards the Remain camp, fewer people conducted searches of moving to Canada.<\/p>\n

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Since Friday\u2019s result, Scottish lawmakers have begun calling for a vote on whether the country should remain part of the UK. A 2014 referendum on the subject saw Scots vote 55 per cent to 45 per cent in favour of staying in the UK.<\/p>\n

The US saw a very similar spike in Google searches on the day Donald Trump won a swathe of Super Tuesday states in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

Trump was initially seen as an unlikely candidate to win the nomination, but as the prospect of him challenging for the White House became real \u2013 he is now the presumptive Republican nominee \u2013 many Americans began looking for a way out.<\/p>\n

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Canadian Immigration Lawyer Colin Singer, Managing Partner of immigration.ca, was recently quoted in a\u00a0CNN Money article<\/a>\u00a0about what it takes for an American to move to Canada. \u00a0Watch him being interviewed on the subject\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The British are traditionally a\u00a0major source country for Canadian immigration<\/a>. In 2015 there were approximately 610,000 people who were born in the UK, yet living in Canada, making the UK the third most popular immigrant nationality behind Chinese (710,000) and Indian nationals (620,000).<\/p>\n

Historically, Britain dominated the Canadian immigration landscape, representing 16 per cent of the total immigrant population in 1990, by far the leading source country at that time.<\/p>\n

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