Comments on: The Pot Calling the Kettle Black http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-blog/2009/08/pot-calling-kettle-black.html Canadian immigration lawyer, David Cohen's blog reflects the personal views of an immigration expert with thirty years of experience. David writes about his perspective on Canada immigration laws and regulations as well as Canada immigration policies of the past, present and future. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-blog/2009/08/pot-calling-kettle-black.html/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Anonymous Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:04:36 +0000 http://localhost/wp/?p=61#comment-132 Thank you, Mr. Cohen for this very timely and honest exposure of hypocrisy of the bureaucrats, who themselves collect tens of millions of dollars from immigrants (calling them 'cost recovery' fees) on top of billions of taxes from Canadian taxpayers and at the same those bureaucrats suffer from pathologic obsession to prevent a private, hard-working consultant/or lawyer to earn extra penny for the valuable services that they provide to immigrants. Thank you, Mr. Cohen for this very timely and honest exposure of hypocrisy of the bureaucrats, who themselves collect tens of millions of dollars from immigrants (calling them 'cost recovery' fees) on top of billions of taxes from Canadian taxpayers and at the same those bureaucrats suffer from pathologic obsession to prevent a private, hard-working consultant/or lawyer to earn extra penny for the valuable services that they provide to immigrants.

]]> By: Altus http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-blog/2009/08/pot-calling-kettle-black.html/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Altus Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:57:04 +0000 http://localhost/wp/?p=61#comment-131 I apologise for my negativity to follow, but I am extremely appalled by the recent activity of the Canadian IRB’s decision to grant Brandon Huntley of Cape Town, South Africa, Political Asylum.<br /><br />I applied for Permanent Residency to Calgary, AB for both myself and my spouse on 06 November 2008. My application was recently discarded by the High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, due to the new immigration laws amended by Minister Jason Kenney on 28 November 2008. Both my spouse and I are in skilled jobs, but unfortunately both our jobs are not on the 38 occupations in demand list. This the sole reason why our application was unsuccessful. Of course we made use of an immigration consultant from a company here in Cape Town, South Africa, and we paid them around R25,000.00 (about CAD3,500.00) without any luck. Their company policy is that they cannot be held responsible for any changes in the immigration laws, and if the laws do change, we unfortunately lose our fees. Now, CAD 3,500.00 is a lot of money to me and I refuse to let this matter die a sudden death.<br /><br />I am glad that Brandon Huntley received the opportunity to relocate to Canada, legally, based on the decision by the IRB. I am not amused by the statements made by him that he is a victim of racial discrimination. South Africa, just like Canada, is a multi-racial nation and the continuous slander towards black people being the cause of all the problems here is becoming annoying. There are a lot of other people from other races that also do crime and crimes against other South Africans. And believe me when I say that there is a lot of crime here in South Africa without any solution or plan of action to stop it.<br /><br />I have also been a victim of crime many times, and I cannot help to think that if Brandon applied for Political Asylum due to the continuous violence against him, why can I not do the same. I think the system is being abused here, based on the facts that he was illegally residing in Canada after his Visa expired and now suddenly he claims to be victimised with a series of brutal crimes of which there is no records or Police statements.<br /><br />I am just so frustrated with the immigration laws at the moment. We desperately want to relocate to Calgary and start our new lives as Canadians, but we want to do the lawful thing and go through the correct legal process. It is people like Brandon that is the cause of the tightening of immigration law policies. And we, the people who want to do the right legal thing; we are the people that suffer at the end of the day. I apologise for my negativity to follow, but I am extremely appalled by the recent activity of the Canadian IRB’s decision to grant Brandon Huntley of Cape Town, South Africa, Political Asylum.

I applied for Permanent Residency to Calgary, AB for both myself and my spouse on 06 November 2008. My application was recently discarded by the High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, due to the new immigration laws amended by Minister Jason Kenney on 28 November 2008. Both my spouse and I are in skilled jobs, but unfortunately both our jobs are not on the 38 occupations in demand list. This the sole reason why our application was unsuccessful. Of course we made use of an immigration consultant from a company here in Cape Town, South Africa, and we paid them around R25,000.00 (about CAD3,500.00) without any luck. Their company policy is that they cannot be held responsible for any changes in the immigration laws, and if the laws do change, we unfortunately lose our fees. Now, CAD 3,500.00 is a lot of money to me and I refuse to let this matter die a sudden death.

I am glad that Brandon Huntley received the opportunity to relocate to Canada, legally, based on the decision by the IRB. I am not amused by the statements made by him that he is a victim of racial discrimination. South Africa, just like Canada, is a multi-racial nation and the continuous slander towards black people being the cause of all the problems here is becoming annoying. There are a lot of other people from other races that also do crime and crimes against other South Africans. And believe me when I say that there is a lot of crime here in South Africa without any solution or plan of action to stop it.

I have also been a victim of crime many times, and I cannot help to think that if Brandon applied for Political Asylum due to the continuous violence against him, why can I not do the same. I think the system is being abused here, based on the facts that he was illegally residing in Canada after his Visa expired and now suddenly he claims to be victimised with a series of brutal crimes of which there is no records or Police statements.

I am just so frustrated with the immigration laws at the moment. We desperately want to relocate to Calgary and start our new lives as Canadians, but we want to do the lawful thing and go through the correct legal process. It is people like Brandon that is the cause of the tightening of immigration law policies. And we, the people who want to do the right legal thing; we are the people that suffer at the end of the day.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-blog/2009/08/pot-calling-kettle-black.html/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Anonymous Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:04:52 +0000 http://localhost/wp/?p=61#comment-130 This is interesting and we got the pot. Immigration is a human need on this earth. Let's make it a free choice as much as possible. Loving Canada as a country is no less than loving a spouse of Canada. I am immidiately ready to find and talk to any helping agent in Canada who can help me reaching the door of an employer against any processing fees. This is interesting and we got the pot. Immigration is a human need on this earth. Let's make it a free choice as much as possible. Loving Canada as a country is no less than loving a spouse of Canada. I am immidiately ready to find and talk to any helping agent in Canada who can help me reaching the door of an employer against any processing fees.

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