08-13-2008, 05:15 AM
08-13-2008, 05:43 AM
I have a friend who falls four square into this category. Problem is he is not sure of what he wants. He has worked on one temporary work permit after another for nearly a decade. Owns a home in Canada. His children have mostly grown up and been educated in Canada. At least one has grown up and married a Canadian.
And yet . . . he is still procrastinating about pursuing permanent residence. I do not understand why . . . though he is so dyed in the "red" (spelled Republican) American I cringe. I cry in fact.
The real question is whether this will have an impact on other aspects of CIC and, for example, whether resources will be taken from processing family class applications to accommodate this policy. I have my opinions. Not much in the way of positive ones.
And yet . . . he is still procrastinating about pursuing permanent residence. I do not understand why . . . though he is so dyed in the "red" (spelled Republican) American I cringe. I cry in fact.
The real question is whether this will have an impact on other aspects of CIC and, for example, whether resources will be taken from processing family class applications to accommodate this policy. I have my opinions. Not much in the way of positive ones.
08-13-2008, 04:28 PM
50,000 annual intake of economic migrants of which they expect this program to take up 25,000. Take off the PNP program and you will quickly see that those applying with a generic skilled worker application will be out in the cold for a very long time.
I tend to agree with this approach because what we are doing currently is simply not working.
I also expect some tightening of criteria on the family class side but not in the actual annual numbers of family class intake. The general public has been calling for tighter scrutiny for a long time but when rules translate into votes, it is difficult to do.
I tend to agree with this approach because what we are doing currently is simply not working.
I also expect some tightening of criteria on the family class side but not in the actual annual numbers of family class intake. The general public has been calling for tighter scrutiny for a long time but when rules translate into votes, it is difficult to do.
08-13-2008, 05:09 PM
No doubt the confluence of politics and policy results in a very convoluted, muddy stream. Even if politics could be taken out of the equation, fashioning workable policies and effective yet efficient rules and regulations is a monstrously difficult endeavor.
We live in a very complicated world. Not likely to get more simple any time soon.
In the meantime, I sense that CIC has some internal, informal or at least unwritten policy agendas being implemented these days. Largely speculation on my part, based mostly on anecdotal information, but I get the impression that CIC is cranking up the speed with which they are handling "routine" applications, trying to process them more quickly so that the overall stats show more efficiency. I suspect this involves a diminished degree of scrutiny . . . more waiver of interviews, less intense background checking (although on this front, I suspect the reliability, extent, and accessibility of electronic records is enabling this aspect to be processed faster and more thoroughly anyway), and so on. What is happening at the other end of the spectrum, though, is murky. One gets some sense that as soon as an application is perceived to have "issues" it tends to fall into a mid-winter, arctic stream of molasses, moving a little faster than a glacier.
We live in a very complicated world. Not likely to get more simple any time soon.
In the meantime, I sense that CIC has some internal, informal or at least unwritten policy agendas being implemented these days. Largely speculation on my part, based mostly on anecdotal information, but I get the impression that CIC is cranking up the speed with which they are handling "routine" applications, trying to process them more quickly so that the overall stats show more efficiency. I suspect this involves a diminished degree of scrutiny . . . more waiver of interviews, less intense background checking (although on this front, I suspect the reliability, extent, and accessibility of electronic records is enabling this aspect to be processed faster and more thoroughly anyway), and so on. What is happening at the other end of the spectrum, though, is murky. One gets some sense that as soon as an application is perceived to have "issues" it tends to fall into a mid-winter, arctic stream of molasses, moving a little faster than a glacier.
08-25-2008, 02:43 AM
u see, i applied skiled worker, if you check my timeline, you could see i actually waited for 2.5 years, eventually i got it, it will make much sense for me to apply inland, because of my education, work experience are all here, shouldn't mix my application to all oversea one..
08-26-2008, 07:43 AM
The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing...end of story and I won't believe it till I see it!
Harper keeps saying how we need workers and CIC keeps us out.....it just kills me!!!
Am sorry for all of you who are just waiting. Me, I just got my PR, thankfully almost a year, now...but really feel for the rest of you that are being fed a bunch of bs.
Harper keeps saying how we need workers and CIC keeps us out.....it just kills me!!!
Am sorry for all of you who are just waiting. Me, I just got my PR, thankfully almost a year, now...but really feel for the rest of you that are being fed a bunch of bs.
08-27-2008, 02:04 AM
see, if you had education here, already found jobs and working there, making T4 contribution, you should not wait more than couple of years, the problem is the backlog, feds have to clean them before moving on..we had bad start long time ago, now tory tried to fix it..