Govt. MPs confident of dropping retroactive clause!
Jan 14th 2002, 7:49 pm
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Finally, good news for immigrants.
Please see article in today's National Post at http://www.nationalpost.com and then
click on "Immigration bill an ambush:MPs".
It's high time skilled immigrants got more respect from the Canadian government,
especially at a time when Canada is experiencing a desperate labour shortage.
Please see article in today's National Post at http://www.nationalpost.com and then
click on "Immigration bill an ambush:MPs".
It's high time skilled immigrants got more respect from the Canadian government,
especially at a time when Canada is experiencing a desperate labour shortage.
Jan 14th 2002, 8:08 pm
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Don't be so sure about it - we'll have to wait and see...
New immigration law and regulations in their current form will not reduce number of
skilled immigrants coming to Canada. The only problem being discussed are the
transition rules eliminating chances for hundreds of thousands already pending
applicants - but if government sticks to their guns then it will not be changed, at
least not dramatically as those rules are intended to eliminate backlog of existing
applications and to allow new rules to be really implemented resulting in almost
immediate change of the profile of new immigrants, instead of 3 to 5 years long
transition period if all pending applications would be allowed to be assessed under
old law. So, as I said, we'll have to wait and see. Also note that if government
wants to have it their way but be forced for political or other reasons to change
officially transition rules then they have the option to use the old law to refuse
all applications they don't like anyway - a simple operational memoranda and
instruction for processing officers to use their discretionary power to refuse
applicants not meeting certain employability or other requirements (regardless how
many points they have under old rules) will do the trick easy and without any
political backlash. I only wonder why they didn't do it already instead of setting
themselves up for bad publicity. Sad, but a reality...
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New immigration law and regulations in their current form will not reduce number of
skilled immigrants coming to Canada. The only problem being discussed are the
transition rules eliminating chances for hundreds of thousands already pending
applicants - but if government sticks to their guns then it will not be changed, at
least not dramatically as those rules are intended to eliminate backlog of existing
applications and to allow new rules to be really implemented resulting in almost
immediate change of the profile of new immigrants, instead of 3 to 5 years long
transition period if all pending applications would be allowed to be assessed under
old law. So, as I said, we'll have to wait and see. Also note that if government
wants to have it their way but be forced for political or other reasons to change
officially transition rules then they have the option to use the old law to refuse
all applications they don't like anyway - a simple operational memoranda and
instruction for processing officers to use their discretionary power to refuse
applicants not meeting certain employability or other requirements (regardless how
many points they have under old rules) will do the trick easy and without any
political backlash. I only wonder why they didn't do it already instead of setting
themselves up for bad publicity. Sad, but a reality...
--
../..
Andrew Miller Immigration Consultant Vancouver, British Columbia email:
[email protected] (delete REMOVE and INVALID from the above address before
sending email)
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