I'm an American working in Canada right now. I worked for a regional airline in the United States before I came up here.

The aviation scene up here is a lot different than it is in the United States. As an American with landed immigrant status in Canada you should have no problem working in Canada. Air Canada has recently hire a lot of low time pilots with no jet time, part 705 (part 121 in the U.S.) experience and no four year degree. They've hired pilots off PC12s Beach 1900, King Airs, and other various GA aircraft flying medivac, charters, and cargo up north. Air Canada will probably open up there app window towards the end of 2014. Since they increase the retirement age to 65, things are a little stagnant right now in the hiring department. The ATP conversion is easy that consist of a 25 question test and some paper work. The first step is getting a medical that comes with a file number which is your license number, but it looks like you done that so far. The Transport Canada office here in Toronto just wanted copies of the last six pages of my logbook that I scanned and emailed to them.

The hardest part about coming up and flying here is the immigration process. I had to hire an immigration lawyer to speed up the process to get my PR Card.