Manila V.O. - Waiting for the Passport with the Visa

[canadian girlash]

long wait is over!!!! finally our visa arrived wohooo PDOS time na.....

yeheey! congrats!

[jmjmjmjm]

sabi sa letter kasama ng visa, meron... nung visit ko website ala na daw... neways, punta ako next week for PDOS para mag inquire/attend. Congrats

oo nga sabe kaso ala na daw starting dec 2010 hehhe. sige c. girlashbalitaan moko baka ako naman dis week magpdos.kelan target date mo na umalis? next month din?

[canadian girlash]

oo nga sabe kaso ala na daw starting dec 2010 hehhe. sige c. girlashbalitaan moko baka ako naman dis week magpdos.kelan target date mo na umalis? next month din?

yup. next month na.. try ko sa monday pumunta for PDOS.. pag di ko mahabol yung CIIP/COA.. dun ko nlng daw ggawin sa canada sabi ng bro. ko kung pede. 

[jmjmjmjm]

pwede pala ang ciip at coa na gawin nlng don? sioge gayahin nlng kta hehe

[canadian girlash]

pwede pala ang ciip at coa na gawin nlng don? sioge gayahin nlng kta hehe

not sure jmjmjm..

magregister ka nlng muna... malay mo mahabol... PDOS lng nman kasi ang compulsory.. pero dagdag kaalaman din yung CIIP/COA.

[Hunnybunny]

yup. next month na.. try ko sa monday pumunta for PDOS.. pag di ko mahabol yung CIIP/COA.. dun ko nlng daw ggawin sa canada sabi ng bro. ko kung pede.  

ako din next month na ano tentative date mo? yung COA saglit lang nag pa register ako nung mon wed nag attend na kami...very informative ito kaya punta kayo free naman with snacks...lunch na lang kayo sa canteen sa building...may certificate pa binigay sa amin leaflets and souvenir pin 8am-5pm magaling yung speaker serge bisson canadian married to a filipina...sabi dami daw pag Monday sa PDOS

[Hunnybunny]

c0ngrats Hunnybunny! nakuha mu na ba sa CIC? ako din po just got our visas today! picked them up   @   their washington tower ofc this afternoon may picture picture pa eh

nakuha ko na kanina may picture picture din sayang di tayo nagkita 7 principal applicants din kami kanina with spouse/kids yung iba

[august041]

nakuha ko na kanina may picture picture din sayang di tayo nagkita 7 principal applicants din kami kanina with spouse/kids yung iba

uu nga...when mo ba balak mag PDOS? baka sakali dun na lng ehehehe

[Hunnybunny]

uu nga...when mo ba balak mag PDOS? baka sakali dun na lng ehehehe

check ko pa sched ko...til fri na lang ako sa office so hopefully maayos ko ang mga dapat ayusin...kaw ba? sabi kanina nung mga attend as early as 4am daw yung iba andun na

[canadian girlash]

ako din next month na ano tentative date mo? yung COA saglit lang nag pa register ako nung mon wed nag attend na kami...very informative ito kaya punta kayo free naman with snacks...lunch na lang kayo sa canteen sa building...may certificate pa binigay sa amin leaflets and souvenir pin 8am-5pm magaling yung speaker serge bisson canadian married to a filipina...sabi dami daw pag Monday sa PDOS

ok tnx. try ko next week. Next month na rin ak alis. kaso scout pk ng ticket.

[Hunnybunny]

ok tnx. try ko next week. Next month na rin ak alis. kaso scout pk ng ticket.

i forgot to inform you nung nagpunta ko monday pinapili lang ako mon o wed na sched...

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Immigration Minister Jason Kenney appeared before a House of Commons committee on Oct. 20 to discuss immigration backlogs. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
      
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Play iconImmigration minister says Canada needs to accept fewer citizenship applicationsKenney on immigration wait7:42

Canada needs to accept fewer applications from people wanting to live here, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says, and he's eyeing the family class for cuts.

Canada is facing too big a backlog and, despite accepting 254,000 applications every year, there are one million people who are waiting to hear whether they can move to Canada, the citizenship and immigration minister said Thursday.

Canada gets about 420,000 applications every year and refuses about 10 per cent of those.

Speaking to the House committee on citizenship and immigration, Kenney said processing applications faster won't fix the backlog problem. And it isn't possible to accept enough people to deal with it either.

The only options, he said, are to vastly increase acceptances, or take fewer applications and keep processing the ones already received.

"Those are the only two possible solutions. It's a math problem," Kenney told reporters after the committee meeting.
Cut family class applications

Kenney pointed to the family class, under which parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens can immigrate. His department received 37,500 applications in 2010 but admits 18,500. Right now, there's a 10-year wait time for processing.

"Merely for us just to tread water, we would have to double the number of people coming into that program ... and that wouldn't even reduce the backlog," he said.

Kenney said other countries require a minimal family income, private health insurance or a bond to limit parent and grandparent applications.

Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland said Kenney's right to suggest a cap on the parents and grandparents category.

"Unless you solve the intake problem, you're going to have a growing backlog with growing processing times and it's time to bite the bullet," he told reporters after the committee meeting.

Kurland said a 20,000 cap is appropriate, and that the government should break the applicants into categories.

"Bring in as priority one the single parents overseas. Priority two is you bring in parents where the families can pony up $75,000 up front to defray medicare costs, either with permanent resident visa on payment or [for $75,000] give that family a 10-year visitor visa to Canada and that way they can be here waiting until their number comes up in the immigration inventory overseas."

Speaking to Rosemary Barton on CBC's Power & Politics, Kenney called the $75,000 payment "a very interesting idea."

"I've heard similar ideas about asking people to share in a greater portion of the social and health-care costs. And maybe that's one practical way of bringing more fairness while limiting the number of new applications so we can avoid the big backlogs. That's a very valid idea," he said.

The Conservative government and previous Liberal governments averaged about 18,000 parent and grandparent entrants a year, he added.

Kenney says the department is launching consultations on cutting the backlog.

NDP immigration critic Don Davies said reducing parent and grandparent applications is the wrong way to go.

"What I object to the most is the minister has come into this so-called study, these meetings, with a preconceived conclusion. The only policy tool that he's looking at is capping applications. Well, that's not the only policy tool available to the minister," Davies said.

He wants Canada to accept another 100,000 immigrants every year, arguing a per capita measurement doesn't make sense because the country has so much space.

[sherwinjavier]

ok tnx. try ko next week. Next month na rin ak alis. kaso scout pk ng ticket.

I am so excited about this conversation you are having regarding your flight going here in spacious Canada land.

[august041]

check ko pa sched ko...til fri na lang ako sa office so hopefully maayos ko ang mga dapat ayusin...kaw ba? sabi kanina nung mga attend as early as  daw yung iba andun na

okay po...just keep me posted TIA

[pfcastelo]

Ask ko lang po regarding sa proof of funds.  Nabawasan na kasi ung proof of funds namin prior to MR issuance pero ngayon may MR na kami.  May same case po ba dito na nabawasan ung POF?  Binalik nyo ba ung POF nyo to meet the minimum?

Thanks