Uneven Delays = Discrimination
February 26, 2008If you are a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident, and want to sponsor your dependent child who resides, say, in China or Turkey, you will likely wait about four months to be reunited. On the other hand, if your child happens to reside in Egypt, the same process will take 34 months. Why should that be?
Similarly, a Brazilian applicant for Canadian Permanent Residency under the Skilled Worker Category will wait, on average, 14 months for a visa; while a Skilled Worker applicant in Pakistan can wait more than five years. Again, what's that about?
According to federal opposition Member of Parliament, Jim Karygiannis, more than incompetence is involved. "It's discrimination when you have people applying from one part of the world and it takes eight months from one part of the world and two years from another." I have to agree.
The current Minister of Immigration blames the previous government for the delays in general and the uneven application processing times in particular. However, her Conservative Party came to power more than two years ago and that excuse is wearing awfully thin. What say you?
12 Comments:
Why don't say about the Mexicans people, we work hard anywhere, please give chance the Mexican People work in Canada.
I guess the reason for that is uneven number of applications in different countries. For now Canada has set limit as to how many immigrants it will admit every year (something that makes perfect sense), so having the same processing time everywhere would mean that the quota will be filled only by nationals of those countries that have the highest number of applications. That is contrary to diversity, value that is (I assume) highly held by Canadians.
This will virtually discourage the efficient professional who has move faster than where he was when he applied.you will discover that its only the desperate ones that might not be very good that will respond.this is rather unfair, i have been on my processing since 2002 and no information from anyone. all i see on line is in process.
it is not fair to deal unevenly for both the applicant and the immigration department becaus after say 5 years for example things may change dramatically toward positive or negative ends so the estimation for skilled worker will lack the accuracy this is my opinion
anyone happen to notice that the countries given as examples here that it's harder to emmigrate from are moslim countries. That got anything to do with it?
One of the reasons that have driven me to apply for an immigration to Canada is the fact that Canada is a country of equal rights and opportunities. At least this has been the impression I was under. If it turns out to be otherwise, then I will feel awfully sorry for Canada as it will be just like any typical third world country.
Adi Najjar
I dont although any sort of discrimination such as this right, but at the same time, the citizens of Canada do not know the reason for this difference. Perhaps there is a security reason for delaying citizenship of people from certain parts of the world. In my opinion, it is highly doubtful that the person in charge of authorizing these people to become citizens of Canada is just a racist bigot toward the people of certain countries. The person in charge of immigration control should, however, at least give reasons for these delays. Untill this happens, I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt in this matter, for I do not know all the facts.
It is sad but true. There is definitely discrimination in processing the visas. I am a qualified doctor and my wife is also in the field of health care. we applied in 2002 from india. But so far no news. Everytime you open the internet and look into our file number it says ** IN PROCESS ** I think the processing time for visas from asian countries take a hell a lot of time. Canada wants lot of qualified people but the immigration takes long years. CRAZY...A COMPLETE PARADOX...........
I believe this all is about the balance. In fact, I think we should adopt the system that has been existing in the USA for quite a number of years. Their system has quotas for different nationalities to become permanent residents for one and clear purpose: to allow the melting pot work. If we, in Canada, have 100,000 people arriving from one country bringing their skills, but also culture, values, religion with them, and just 1,000 from the other, this is not a melting pot neither it is a multiculturalism. This is a silent invasion that changes our neighborhoods, our culture, and our values to something else that majority of Canadians do not approve. Also, we must admit that some cultures simply fail to integrate into our society; they use Canadian values and Canadian passports for their own benefit, abuse our tolerance but advocate their our intolerance toward our values. They offer Canada nothing in return. Canada needs immigration, but Canada must be very selective. After all, this is up to Canadians to decide who we want here next to us, and who we don't. This is great that government has started to listen and pay attention to the opinion of silent majority. That's true democracy, and I applause it.
If Canada is so desperate for workers, and there's such a huge skills shortage, then why does it take so long to process an permanent resident application (3 years on average). At this rate, countries like Australia, New zealand, etc, will benefit from Canada's lack of speed (interest). If I had to apply to one of these countries, I'd be done with the whole process in under a year.
Take a look at the statistics: currently, about 167,000 immigration applications are in the queue in India, and about 1,500 in Brazil. Do you really think that it is good for Canada to welcome 135 Indians at the same time when we welcome just 1 Brazilian and 1 Dutch and 1 Cameroonian in Canada? Please do not take me wrong, I enjoy living in Canada as we know it, in diverse and dynamic society. India is well-known as one of the greatest cultures on the face of Earth, but I do not think that, as a result of current immigration policy, Canada should turn into another state of India or another province of China. Balance must rule. To ensure balance and create great mixture environment, Canada must allow 1 Indian to enter as a new immigrant along with 1 Chinese, 1 French, 1 Mexican, 1 Trinidadian and so on. Again, we need balance.
At this day and age of technological advances the inability of CIC to handle their inventories using a global management system is inexcusable.The quality of service that CIC is offering is tarnishing Canadian reputation.Instead of having one huge clear house in Canada which receives input from foreign affairs when needed,and having one global queue for Sponsorship cases and economic classes applications,CIC rather continue to deliver substandard quality of service.
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