Hello!
I'm Paul Kurucz. When I returned to Canada with my family after teaching abroad for many years I learned that moving back can be complicated and overwhelming and decided to be of support to other Canadians who may be feeling this way. I help my clients gain clarity on when and how to move themselves and their families back to Canada. And I empower them with the facts they need on taxes, investments, government regulations, move logistics, timing, real estate, immigration, health care, and more. They then have the security of knowing how to handle legal and administrative requirements and understand how to navigate this major life change more smoothly and easily as well.
My goal is your clarity and confidence for a smooth move back to Canada!
25 years as an International Business Professor and 20 years supporting over 1500 clients are the source of my expertise.
Being a caring and supportive Advisor and Guide during this major transition in your life is my mission.
My consultation, email support, and self-help materials are detailed below. I provide simple, clear, and high value support packages for your immediate needs and for questions and considerations that arise throughout your journey home.
How may I help?
I regularly support clients who are in sensitive and emotionally challenging life transition situations as part of their possible or planned move back to Canada. If you are going through a big change in your life and would like someone to really hear you and help with personal considerations, options, and resources for this major change I would be pleased to do so. Emotional intelligence included at no charge.
Would you like a consultation to get the clarity and confidence you need for your move planning and preparations? Then this option is for you! Includes a pre-consultation review of any serious or complex concerns you might have and a one-time consultation by Zoom, Skype, or phone. Also includes self-help planning tools and guides. Learn more...
Questions arise throughout your journey home to Canada...and afterward. This package includes one year of support by email for your questions and considerations relating to taxes, investments, real estate, logistics, health care, border crossing and more! Also includes self-help planning tools and guides. Learn more...
All your immediate concerns are addressed in a Zoom, Skype, or phone consultation. Then on-going support by email continues for one year to ensure you have a smooth and confident move! A follow-up consultation when you need it is also included, which clients typically book closer to their actual move to go over all final details. Also includes self-help planning tools and guides. Learn more...
For the do-it-yourself return to Canada the Moving Back to Canada Planner is for you! Includes two editions for those returning from the U.S. (one for planning up to 18 months in advance and one for moving back in 30 days or less) or an international edition for Canadians moving back from all other countries, the "Canada in 2024 Guide", and the Real Estate Selling and Moving Planner.
Learn more...
"The Thoughtful Expat's Guide to Buying Real Estate in Canada" is for you!
This Roadmap / Planner is a combination step-by-step guide, checklist, and education tool that will safely and confidently walk you through a real estate purchase. Learn more...
Whether you are deep into preparing your move back to Canada and have questions or you need to jump-start your move process, a consultation can help!
I prepare ahead for our conversation on any serious or complex challenges you are facing and we have a consultation by Zoom, Skype, or phone to address them. Most clients also gain new options they hadn't considered before, which they find valuable. This package also includes self-help planners and guides you can use to make your move smoother and easier.
"I learned more so far in the first 30 minutes of our consultation than years of sifting through information on the internet trying to piece together answers." - Yo M.
Questions and areas of consideration I support clients with:
The Professional Consultation includes 4 Guides: The Moving Back To Canada Planner / Checklist (U.S. and international editions), the Buying Real Estate in Canada Roadmap (BC, ON, or NB editions), the "Canada in 2024: 10 Insights to Empower your New Life in Canada" Guide (Client testimonials: "The Canada Insights are awesome." - Paul M., "I really found your "10 Insights to Empower Your New Life in Canada in 2024" to be eye opening & spot on! "Choose your reality carefully" is great advice. Canada is different now many years later...and so is the rest of the world." - Mary L, April 2024), and the Selling Real Estate and Moving Planner-Checklist.
Please Note: This is a one-time consultation. If you would like on-going support and email follow-ups for questions and considerations that arise after we speak, please engage my Consultation & Advising support package (see below). If wish to upgrade at a later date I will credit the fee for this Consultation to the full Consultation & Advising support package.
One year of professional support by email for your move back to Canada. Your questions answered, before, during, and after you move back! Send questions, concerns, and considerations at any time and get prompt professional answers. No limit to our email communications. No expensive bill later.
"Your materials, answers to questions, and support were instrumental in making our move across the border smooth and uneventful. Thank you!" - Bonnie B.
Questions and areas of consideration I support clients with:
The Professional Email Support package includes 4 Guides: The Moving Back To Canada Planner / Checklist (U.S. and international editions), the Buying Real Estate in Canada Roadmap (BC, ON, or NB editions), the "Canada in 2024: 10 Insights to Empower your New Life in Canada" Guide (client testimonials: "The Canada Insights are awesome." - Paul M., "I really found your "10 Insights to Empower Your New Life in Canada in 2024" to be eye opening & spot on! "Choose your reality carefully" is great advice. Canada is different now many years later...and so is the rest of the world." - Mary L, April 2024), and the Selling Real Estate and Moving Planner-Checklist.
Have your taxation, financial, investments, real estate, logistics, health care, government forms, lifestyle, and other questions addressed with a consultation with me and one year of email support afterwards, so you can feel more prepared, confident, and clear of mind about your move back to Canada! This consultation and advising service is available wherever you are in the world.
A personal Zoom, Skype, or telephone consultation.
A follow-up Zoom/Skype/telephone consultation is also included, available when you need it. Most clients find it useful shortly before their actual move date to go over final move details.
+ includes Email support for one year (value $400)
The Professional Consultation & Advising package includes 4 Guides: The Moving Back To Canada Planner / Checklist (U.S. and international editions), the Buying Real Estate in Canada Roadmap (BC, ON, or NB editions), the "Canada in 2024: 10 Insights to Empower your New Life in Canada" Guide (client testimonials: "The Canada Insights are awesome." - Paul M., "I really found your "10 Insights to Empower Your New Life in Canada in 2024" to be eye opening & spot on! "Choose your reality carefully" is great advice. Canada is different now many years later...and so is the rest of the world." - Mary L, April 2024), and the Selling Real Estate and Moving Planner-Checklist.
Note: If you have purchased Professional Email Support previously and would like a consultation, you will receive a CDN $500 credit toward this Consultation & Advising package. Similarly, if we had a single Consultation together earlier you will receive a CDN $275 credit towards this package.
A ready-made and up-to-date planner of questions, considerations, and actions to take as you prepare for your move back to Canada, organized on a timeline approach. Save hours of work and stress of trying to piece everything together. A companion tool to the full content on this web site. In Microsoft Word format for easy customization to your specific context and needs. Also in PDF format.
NEW! If you are in the U.S. and moving back to Canada quickly your purchase includes a brand new edition as well: "Moving back to Canada from the U.S. in 30 days or less", in Word and PDF formats.
"Your moving guides and checklists are unbelievably helpful - frankly I don't know what I would do without them. You have covered everything including many, many things I would not have thought of. Thank you!!!" - C.W., April 2022
"The list of tasks is very helpful as I'm a list person. Just love checking off the boxes!"
And "I must say I truly appreciate having purchased your guide to moving back to Canada. While we are still a couple months away it has really helped me keep all the "balls in the air".
"The guide to adjusting to life back in Canada is outstanding. I will do the self-assessments and make action plans per your recommendations, but I am not ruling out signing up for some direct consultation with you. A bargain at twice the price!"
"I never expected your wonderful 10 Insights document - which I am re-reading 1 Insight each night. The "mind" help you are giving is very unexpected and very welcome."
And "The "10 Insights" are awesome. I've been away for almost four decades, so when we decide to make the move, it will be as much like moving to a new country as it is "moving back" to an old one..."
And: "I must say, the content of "Canada in 2021" [now the 2024 edition] does prompt significant soul searching!"
And: "I really found your "10 Insights to Empower Your New Life in Canada in 2024" to be eye opening & spot on! "Choose your reality carefully" is great advice. Canada is different now many years later...and so is the rest of the world." - Mary L, April 2024.
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"The Thoughtful Expat's Guide to Buying Real Estate in Canada" is for you!
This Roadmap / Planner is a combination step-by-step guide, checklist, and education tool that will safely and confidently walk you through a real estate purchase. It starts with the research phase and ends with what to do in the first 30 days of you owning your property. It has been contributed to and regularly reviewed by real estate professionals to ensure it is as up-to-date as possible. Includes a glossary of terms you will need to know!
You can download PDF and Microsoft Word versions, the latter allowing you to tweak and customize the Roadmap for your needs and circumstances!
As the real estate market and process for buying property is evolving regularly, you will be notified of new editions of this Guide so you can download them for free.
Currently available in British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick editions in Microsoft Word and PDF formats. After purchasing you can download all the editions and versions.
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Helping you feel organized and confident for your move back to Canada is my mission!
Over the last 20 years I have advised and supported over 1500 individuals and families, answering all their questions about returning to Canada, helping them feel their move is under control, and providing resources and contacts they needed. As a former expatriate and parent of children who have lived overseas, I "get" how it feels to make the move home - scary and exciting at the same time!
My 25 years as a university business professor and leader has built a foundation of expertise in international finances, taxes, cultural adaptation, logistics, and life transition, which I draw on in my work with returning Canadians. My many years of advising clients on their financial, tax, and real estate investing has deepened the level of support I offer for those who have a more complex context.
I was born and raised in the Toronto area and educated at Western University (formerly named The University of Western Ontario). After my Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree I worked in industry and higher education and then chose an international assignment teaching and leading for 6-1/2 years in Dubai. Using the opportunity of living abroad I traveled widely in the world. Some time in living in the U.S. helped me understand what life is like for our neighbour to the south. Having seen so many different aspects of life in Canada and abroad, I can help you ask the right questions about moving back so that you can transition easily and smoothly into life in Canada, whether you are moving back to Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Moncton, Halifax, or...
I care that your new life in Canada starts with ease, confidence and joy!
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Feedback from a wonderful client and his family who moved back to Canada from the U.S.:
When my wife and I decided to move our family to Canada from California it was the beginning of a daunting and difficult journey. Leaving our jobs, securing a new place to live, saying goodbye to friends and family, selling our house, packing, travel logistics, transferring and exchanging funds all during a pandemic was enough, but the implications of immigrating and border crossing left us feeling like we didn’t know where to start. When we found Paul’s website it was like a dream come true. So much great and up to date information, planners, links and tips…it was just what we needed.
It was still a lot to navigate, though, so I wanted more direction with the specifics of my family’s situation. When I saw that we could acquire personalized help via email from Paul I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I am happy to report it was one of our best decisions and the best money we spent by far. Paul is incredibly responsive, thoughtful and knowledgeable. He identified pitfalls that we were able to avoid, gave very insightful advice to us on all aspects of our situation, and exuded a calm demeanor in his correspondence that made me feel like I had a really smart and informed friend to bounce things off when the stakes felt so high. The additional lists and planners he provided also really helped us feel less anxious that we were missing something. He never made me feel like I was asking too many questions, and always understood the situation quickly. This is very soothing when you are dealing with government agencies, banks and forms that all seem to conspire to be confused and confusing. Paul’s services are a fantastic value and I can’t recommend him enough.
- Elijah R.
"My husband Steve and I had a great video conversation with Paul Kurucz when we moved back to Canada from Hong Kong and he graciously replied to our follow up emails as we now prepare to move to Vietnam. His answers were clear, comprehensive, and eye opening. He helped us navigate the murky waters of repatriation: tax implications, owning property, selling property, filing taxes, becoming residents and subsequently non-residents again, and more! We have been so impressed with the expert guidance Paul has given us. If you are an expat with questions about moving to or from Canada, we could not recommend him more highly!"
- Cait and Steve, April 2024
"It was nice meeting you virtually. Just wanted to send my big thanks for your factual and emotional support - wonderful!"
- M. Asana, April 2024
"I just wanted to let you know that our return was smooth and all went according to plan. Thank you for your help, much appreciated! I've already recommended your services to another Canadian ex-colleague of mine who plans to leave UAE next year."
- Jason L., February 2024
"Once again, you have been extremely helpful. We greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you so much! We have and will continue to recommend you to our Canadian expat friends."
- C. Redmond, February 2024
"Paul has been wonderful with advice and so knowledgeable in answering our questions regarding moving back to Canada from the U.S. Thank you Paul for your wonderful website and excellent Zoom appointments. We'd be flying blind without the valuable information you provide."
- C. Pellatt, December 2023
Feedback on the website: "I just want to say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making this website. My jaw is on the floor, I was going in circular or dead-end website journeys on the Canadian government website, at a loss about what I had to do upon my return to Canada (and I grew up with the internet..). Maybe they can hire you?"
- E. Chen, November 2023
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Paul's note: Thank you for the feedback on the website Ms. Chen! I appreciate the employment suggestion but governments are set up in a "process" where employees are normally put in a tightly structured job description. My goal is support the full person - you, the expatriate Canadian who has a wide range of personal considerations, planning needs, and questions. I cover it all: from moving investments and savings to deciding where to move back to in Canada to creating a bridge to the Canadian health care system...and much more.
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"I've been composing this email in my head since we landed in Ottawa last March. The main reason that I want to reach out to you is to say a big THANK YOU. The information on your website, as well as the personal support you were able to offer us as we navigated the process of moving back to Canada was invaluable. We would not have known where to begin but finding your website 5 years ago helped get us organized as we got familiar with the process."
- L. van Doorn
"Thanks again for your help, and all the great resources you provide. It was a huge help."
- G. Ritchie
"As a consultant, Paul Kurucz has helped us over the past three years in securing my wife’s Permanent Residency status in Canada. He is very professional, and most importantly, a caring and thoughtful individual. He always took the time to carefully answer our endless questions, and encourage us during the lengthy, and at times, frustrating PR application process. During this time of COVID, our plans were constantly being interrupted. There were issues with communications with the IRCC, other challenges in my returning to Canada after a lengthy absence, and applying for PR for my wife. Through it all, Paul was always available to calmly reassure us, to offer important information and sound advice. Without reservation, I highly recommend him to you as an very capable and compassionate consultant."
- S. Lowey
"All the instructions from you and your site meant we were hyper-prepared, and the car export and import, plus importing of our goods, the two Americans, and two cats went very smoothly. They [CBSA] complemented us on our preparedness...I’m incredibly happy to be back. Thanks again for all your help."
- G. Ritchie
"...thanks again for being there to help all of us who are navigating this strange new world called "coming home."
- A.C.
"It was a pleasure meeting you! We found it an eye-opening, valuable and a rather "freeing" discussion. It made us very excited about our future!"
- L. W.
"This is all fantastically useful information, very well received. I feel instant clarity on what had previously been fuzzy, so thank you!"
- J. S.
"Thanks again Paul for all of your timely answers to my many questions. It truly made the move as seamless as it could have been."
- L. Disbury
"Paul I can’t thank you enough for all of your expert advice. I am an organized person, but I NEVER would able to do this Monumental international move without your guidance in the middle of a pandemic."
- J. Powell
"Thanks again for all of your help during my transition back home your guidance was exactly what I needed."
- M. Hoo
"It was lovely to meet you and thank you very much for your help. It's filled me with confidence for this potential move!"
- L. O'Shea
"We are in Canada! THANK YOU PAUL!! Your advice has been invaluable."
- Pam and Bill
"Your testimonials are right. I feel a lot better now!"
- H. Huang
"We made it safe and sound! All your advice was perfect!"
- B. Hanes
"Working with you as we go through this major life change and transition is more helpful than I can express."
- C. Renfer
"Thanks again for all the great information and guidance. Extremely helpful."
- R. & G. Palmer
"I crossed into BC yesterday, without a hitch. Overprepared, if anything, thanks to you."
- L. C.
"I can’t adequately express how much these insights help. I feel like we now have a path forward and can start to get traction...I appreciate your service. It’s a real lifeline. Could we have done this without your help? Yes, but it would have been significantly more difficult and we surely would have fallen into many pitfalls that you helped us to avoid. Without a doubt, employing your help was some of the wisest money we have ever spent and it is not even close. My whole family thanks you immensely."
- E. Rubin
"Thanks Paul, can’t tell you how much help and peace of mind you have brought us."
- O. Dearing
"I made it home and I am so thankful to you. Paul you were there for me and answered so promptly I could not believe. Your service was reassuring and well worthy. Thanks again for you guidance and reassurance!"
- H. Bailey
"Paul, thanks so much for the broad perspective and advice. Both are extremely helpful and appreciated."
- Kert P.
"I truly value and appreciate your genuine approach and kind service so far."
- Dana K.
"Your help thus far has been invaluable. It's kept me from running out into the street, tearing wildly at my hair whilst shouting profanities aimed at my homeland's government bureaucrats, bless them!"
- D. B.
"Thank you so much for all your words, good advice and hearing what I was saying. It was so appreciated!!! Really was. And your website was my first real gathering of info a year or so ago, to do this move. Thanks for all you do for us fellow Canadians trying to get back home again."
- Aislin S.
"Paul is a sweet guy, he taught us more in a 1 hour Skype conversation than we learned in 6 months on the internet. We have an accurate plan, we are not wasting our time on details that are not important, and we are focusing on the details that are. ...Thank you Paul"
- Michael M.
"We would both like to thank you for the ease with which we are accomplishing the formalities of our return to Canada. Your guidance both on your site and in our phone call helped enormously as we were completely prepared with the correct documentation."
- Robert T.
"Your information has been invaluable to me, as you have provided answers to the most important questions which remained unanswered. Thank you!"
- Anna S.
"All your replies have been fantastic, exceptionally helpful."
- Erik C.
"I learned more so far in [the first 30 minutes of] our consultation than years of sifting through information on the internet trying to piece together answers."
- Yo M.
"As always, thank you for your help Paul. By the way, the best investment I did during this move is to have you at my side. It was sooo reassuring and helpful. You are wonderful to work with."
- Annie R.
"Paul thanks for your help and kindness. I crossed from Washington to bc in about 20 minutes thanks to you and cbsa as if they had their arms open for me..."
- A happy client
"I gotta say that I never thought I would be having such an reflective, intellectual exchange about the logistics of moving - you bring a lot of wisdom and insight to my situation. Also, It’s not often that I see people in business making time and effort for clients"
- Joanne C.
"Thank you for the very thorough and detailed reply to my questions as your response and information is very helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to write that all out for me. Your point on how Vancouver has just become "bigger" and "complicated" is good to know and definitely we need to check things out and scout out a good area that meets our needs..."
- A happy client
"Thanks very much for providing some very helpful advice and a sound roadmap that we can follow! It definitely makes a difference!"
- Kathy H.
"The border crossing was textbook, in large part thanks to you and your website. The border guards in Victoria gave our paperwork an A+, and were mightily impressed with our thoroughness. We also stood around chatting merrily with them for about a half hour while they filled out their share of paperwork."
- Paul G.
"Thank you for your help and I am just so happy that someone like you exists. I was lost but hopefully I have found my way."
- A happy client
"Your materials, answers to questions, and support were instrumental in making our move across the border smooth and uneventful. The CBSA agent was pleased with our paperwork and even joked around with us! We spent less than a hour at the border even though we had a huge moving truck, car and utility trailer. Due to your advice and assistance we had everything in order and it made all the difference. Thank you!"
- Bonnie B.
"Thank you for your help Paul. I am so grateful for our exchange. Having a coach helps tremendously. It gives me the confidence I was looking for."
"Your web site and resources were very worthwhile and your quick responses to all my questions calmed my nerves. It's not an easy thing to pack up 22 years of living and move 1000 miles north. It takes a lot of planning, research, scheduling, packing and asking a LOT of questions.
So, thanks once again Paul. I'm glad I'm back home with my family and am actually looking forward to my first winter in 22 years !!!!!!!!!!"- A happy client
- Annie R.
"Just crossed the border without issue!! Thank you for all your expert advice!!"
- Reema B.
"Thanks for your quick responses and useful planning and guide docs."
- John R.
"Thank you for your advice. I feel really good now. :)"
- A happy client
"What a relief, thx!"
- A happy client
"Thanks for your timely and informed answers."
- A happy client
"That was really helpful advice and so succinct. Thank you."
- A happy client
"Thank you for your prompt reply. This is exactly what I was looking for."
- A happy client
"Thanks ever so much for your help! The border crossing/entry/clearing was a breeze thanks to your detailed, smart and right-on advice!!"
- A happy client
"Just a quick update. Crossed into Canada Wednesday morning. No issues at all. Border agents just wanted to help. Thank you."
- A happy client
"Your inputs throughout this process have been invaluable, both for concrete advice and just plain reassurance."
- A happy client
"Just a note to thank you for your input and advice re our move back to Canada after being away for almost 40 years!!!... We came to [the] CBSA station at Blaine WA and the process was real simple and easy. We had the B-4 paperwork for our household effects to follow plus the two cars and received the stamps. In less than 20 minutes we were on our way to the ferry. Thanks again for all your tips and advice."
- A happy client
"Just to update you - we landed and sailed through customs! So thank you so much for all of your advice. Essentially, given we'd itemised and had printouts of every item, including serial numbers, they were overjoyed. Did not even care that valuations were not included (my husband forgot to print up that version).
No questions were asked of our accommodation, job postings, or otherwise. It was a thoroughly pleasant experience (unlike a number I've had coming through as a non-resident...!).
Hopefully we shouldn't have any further queries, but regardless, this is to say thank you for everything. Your advisory has been so incredibly helpful and saved us considerable time and removed room for error."
- A happy client
"Hi Paul! So glad to see your success. I want to help you in any way AS YOU HELPED ME!!!!, or I should say 'us', with so many quick responses to my questions! AGAIN THANK YOU for that....The move back was crazy and your help really guided us..."
- A happy client
"Just a quick note of appreciation for the lengthy, informative, and well-detailed email that you wrote me...Thank you for taking the time...to research some stuff for me!"
- A happy client
"We just wanted to say a BIG Thank You for your site and it's excellent advice. We just moved (2 days ago!) from Dublin, Ireland to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Customs officers at the airport were well impressed with our paperwork.
Thank you for your advice. We had everything in order, including our B4 and shipping forms. It was a breeze to go through customs at the airport and then at the Harbour office."I love these emails and want to earn one from you!
"Can I tell you what a ray of sunshine your site is! And so positive and warm. It makes me feel less threatened by the whole process."
- A happy client
"Just want to say that I've found your site extremely helpful in regards to advice for our move. We've been very organized thanks to some great tips from your site, and thankfully so far everything has fit into place without any major hassle--though we haven't left the UK yet!"
- a happy visitor to this web site
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