<p>I’m currently in 12th grade and I live in Point Roberts, Washington, a small town near the US-Canada border. However, I go to a private school across the border in Tsawassen, BC. I am a dual citizen (US + Canada) and I am currently investigating universities that I would like to attend. I have a home in both British Columbia and Washington and I live half of the year in each.</p>
<p>What I want to know is if I attend a Canadian school like UBC for my undergrad will I be counted as an international applicant or a US applicant when I apply to US medical schools? Will I be able to apply to schools that do not take international applicants? Also, will I still be considered in-state for Washington school’s since I have an address there?</p>
<p>Well, To what I know, your required to claim a permenent a citizenship by the time your 18. So keep in mind which country you’d prefer to be schooled in.
If you send in your appilcations before you claim your permenent citizenship, you can usually state somewhere that your a dual citizen and they’ll view you as whatever is more convenient. (US schools will see you as a US citizen, Canadian schools will see you as a Canadian. Same for In-state.)</p>
This is not true. If you are born a dual citizen US law allows you to keep the dual citizenship your entire life. There is no requirement to claim permanent citizenship in either country - you already have it. Canada also has no laws that prevent you from doing this. The possible exception in US law is if you become a naturalized US citizen later in life. When you go through naturalization you swear under oath that you are renouncing other citizenships. In the past (I believe especially during and for a long period of time after the McCarthy witch hunts) the State Department would pursue cases where people kept their original citizenship but currently does not do so. </p>
<p>As a US citizen you should not be considered an international applicant when it comes to medical school wherever you do your undergrad. You would need to check with the school about the in-state situation.</p>
<p>you wouldn’t be considered an international applicant no matter what you choose. Canadian schools are considered equivalent to american ones and you will have no visa restrictions, problems with NIH funding, or anything conceivable…make sure you can rightfully claim permanent residence in washington.</p>
<p>They will consider you a US applicant. Also, keep in mind that if it is a public school, they will consider your state residency…so make sure your parents keep the address in washington…</p>
<p>also, you dont have to decide on “permanent citizenship.” The US does not like, but tolerates, dual citizenship these days.</p>
<p>My DD is researching the CA/US medical school rules. It appears, so far, that a person completing medical school and residency in Canada can practice in either country; however, a student doing that education and residency in the US canNOT practice in Canada.</p>
<p>She is still trying to determine if this is a fact, as there are so many foreign sounding docs in Canada it seems odd, but those people may have come before this rule began.</p>
<p>Any one know if it is true that an American must do a residency in Canada in order to practice there?</p>