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[Lord_Tony]

Some pleasant stuff for the day I drive past a Hamilton MP's Filomena Tassi office everyday to work, I looked up today while parking and saw she has 4.7 ratings in google. I stopped the car and walked in was met by an reception lady I told her my problem and how current home address MPs office ignores me for almost a month. And since I stay only a couple of KMs away, can I request this MP to help. She immediately called the the MPs assistants mobile that assistant lady was working from home but has asked me to fill up the consent form and told me the office will call me and give an update after talking to IRCC or if they need more details. There are some good politicians in Canada also wow

 

[GandiBaat]

I agree with some of what you just said. It's good that you got out of that mindset.

Yes, it's true that Arabs hate each other too. But I think the only unique thing about Filipinos is that they actively try to let you know that they're hating on you. Like one of the Filipino girls in my apartment back in the UK a few years back would smile at every white person and as soon as she saw any Arab, or a South Asian, she would make the most disgusting face ever. It was so flagrant. And for no reason at all! I have many other stories of them saying horrendous things about black people too ,and how Sri Lankans and Indians always eat smelly food, which is hilarious since Filipino food literally smells like you know what.

Cherry on top is that despite all their hatred for Arabs, so many of them end up opening foot massage parlors in Abu Dhabi lmao. I can never understand how some humans who are often discriminated against then turn around and harbor so much hatred for others in such a nasty and visceral fashion.

Well posts don't make a man, I can claim to be a saint in this forum and be a porn star in real life lol.

I agree with you. yes, some of the poor behavior's of treating people poorly based on the skin is very much ingrained in the a lot of Asian cultures including mine. A lot of us treat darker skinned folks in our own culture worse than a fair skinned folks. I have done this myself in my younger days dating women, always preferred the fairer maidens. Sometimes still do I guess, it is involuntary man sorry sometimes tastes don't change. But I think such behavior is equally prominent with the sub-continental cultures. I know this because folks from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and and Bangladesh have been friends with me right from my youth days in the UK, where we were grouped together, shared accommodations and had a great time scrounging in lowly IT jobs, those days we used to get abused by the entitled whites who felt we were stealing their jobs by taking lower pays.

Today loads of whites some even older than me work for me, it is a much changed different world, I'm thankful for all those who did hold a handle and let us all move up in our Careers. This upward move applies to a lot of Indians also. I love East-Coast and west coast Americans, I have never felt discriminated there not even one day even 17-18 years back, Texas and a few inner red-districts are still bad.

Each one of us is entitled to our opinion I don't disagree with most of the stuff you say.

We need a "national brotherhood week" in Canada too!

I think this is the most relevant:

 

[Hopeful007]

If this is all that will take for you to get angry then you won't survive in Canada lol. Expect mediocrity or incompetence at every turn, relative to most developed nations.

If you could back up your claims, it would be great. Otherwise, I doubt it.
If you are talking about EU countries, they have high taxes, meaning government employees get paid better.
If you are talking about the US, their tax base is bigger and so on. However, I read that underfunding is prevalent, meaning they can't do their work. IRS can't recover tax money from rich crooks etc.
Canada is in the middle I guess. I would like to see formal research though before making such claims.

 

[Lord_Tony]

If you could back up your claims, it would be great. Otherwise, I doubt it.
If you are talking about EU countries, they have high taxes, meaning government employees get paid better.
If you are talking about the US, their tax base is bigger and so on. However, I read that underfunding is prevalent, meaning they can't do their work. IRS can't recover tax money from rich crooks etc.
Canada is in the middle I guess. I would like to see formal research though before making such claims.

Sorry I disagree the level of competence and ability to get thing done is very poor overall in Canada in almost all walks of life, it is little worse in the government is what I feel.

 

[Hopeful007]

Sorry I disagree the level of competence and ability to get thing done is very poor overall in Canada in almost all walks of life, it is little worse in the government is what I feel.

I wish this were true for IRCC as well. Accepting way too many people and processing their apps under 6 months is screwing over everyone and everything.
If it were the US, it would be 2 years or so. Visas for relatives take 20 years in the US. We need that kind of incompetence here at IRCC lol

 

[Lord_Tony]

I wish this were true for IRCC as well. Accepting way too many people and processing their apps under 6 months is screwing over everyone and everything.
If it were the US, it would be 2 years or so. Visas for relatives take 20 years in the US. We need that kind of incompetence here at IRCC lol

They show they are incompetent by filtering out the more qualified people with better competence. i.e. who will increase the average competence level of Canada. IRCC either is rejecting them or delaying their applications so these capable ones go elsewhere, IRCC use their lordly lord times to approve more Lambdas to reduce Canadian intelligence levels even lower

 

[Impatient Dankaroo]

I wish this were true for IRCC as well. Accepting way too many people and processing their apps under 6 months is screwing over everyone and everything.
If it were the US, it would be 2 years or so. Visas for relatives take 20 years in the US. We need that kind of incompetence here at IRCC lol

Look up IRCC's revolutionary AI
tool "Chinook" used to approve and deny applications instantly thereby reducing decision making turnaround time by 400%. Hint: AI could mean excel formula.

Also, IRCC/CBSA seems to let anyone with a fake letter in which went totally under the radar until they applied for PR. Just imagine that, these fake students were probably able to make SIN numbers and work 'legally' for 3 years under a fake acceptance. I'll bet my immigrant ass that plenty have become PRs through fake acceptance/status.
https://www.immigration.ca/canada-will-not-deport-genuine-international-students-in-fake-acceptance-letters-scandal/

Hundreds of questions from students like "I worked 40 hours here or I worked after my permit expired, super worried, etc" bruh these guys are accepting fake students in giving him SINs and people like that Sikh guy Nijjar who came in illegally got citizenship. Anyways, I'll let you have your positive beliefs.

 

[iSaidGoodDay]

Posted this in March after looking at how bad the rental market really was(and giving out my personal info for rental felt so dumb): https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/newcomer-pr-mortgage-questions.791545/

Bought my home yesterday. I landed here earlier this month for context. I posted most of what I had planned in that thread and it worked just as I thought it would. Feel free to browse what I did. I also feel happy to receive DMs from other immigrants who read my posts and were able to buy their homes post-landing too.

Some realizations:
1. for all the crash talk, there are a LOT of people with millions of dollars in cash who take any investment opportunity they can - the market is highly likely to not crash(can do down, but won't crash) as these people can easily wait out 5 years of tough market. Non-investors would crack first.
2. you'll always be forced on "investment opportunities", "keeping low equity", "flipping", etc and other lifestyle bs. There's money to be made there for sure, but it is something that deeply damages the market for some many others that there's a moral decision that one needs to make.
3. buying cheap = peace of mind. RE investments are not everything - it is purely lazy, unintelligent money that screws up our own fellow residents who one day would want to be able to buy a home to start their families.
4. if you are buying in a market like Calgary, be prepared to lose $30k-60k in future if you move out of the city due to job loss or in-search of better opportunities.

 

[Impatient Dankaroo]

Posted this in March after looking at how bad the rental market really was(and giving out my personal info for rental felt so dumb): https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/newcomer-pr-mortgage-questions.791545/

Bought my home yesterday. I landed here earlier this month for context. I posted most of what I had planned in that thread and it worked just as I thought it would. Feel free to browse what I did. I also feel happy to receive DMs from other immigrants who read my posts and were able to buy their homes post-landing too.

Some realizations:
1. for all the crash talk, there are a LOT of people with millions of dollars in cash who take any investment opportunity they can - the market is highly likely to not crash(can do down, but won't crash) as these people can easily wait out 5 years of tough market. Non-investors would crack first.
2. you'll always be forced on "investment opportunities", "keeping low equity", "flipping", etc and other lifestyle bs. There's money to be made there for sure, but it is something that deeply damages the market for some many others that there's a moral decision that one needs to make.
3. buying cheap = peace of mind. RE investments are not everything - it is purely lazy, unintelligent money that screws up our own fellow residents who one day would want to be able to buy a home to start their families.
4. if you are buying in a market like Calgary, be prepared to lose $30k-60k in future if you move out of the city due to job loss or in-search of better opportunities.

You have a new house? I'll trade you some lambdas for a percentage

 

[Windsor37]

Is it very common for an MP's office to ignore emails or phones for 2-3 weeks I sent my 3rd follow-up today (2 emails and 1 call). Or should I assume they are tacitly telling me by not replying they are not going to call IRCC?
I was waiting for the 6 months completion and see if MPs could try calling.
Hamilton Mountain, ON MP seems like a very peculiar animal, her Google page and FB are filled with citizens simply blasting her office for ignoring emails and calls for talking to CRA, etc....
Somehow I feel angry as if the whole Canadian government machinery is gunned down against me, maybe after getting my PR I should get into politics and try to create a South East Asian political party to unite all brown and yellows under one single umbrella, get enough MPS to join one of the coalations. Office politics is not enough for me I need to be in government politics also now I guess.

Wait are you in Canada right now? If so , you could just call IRCC yourself. I did, took me almost a year before my PR card arrived, and I was constantly calling them to follow up.

 

[abhiram.kumar]

Wow! Even the Bloc Québécois are speaking out against the insane levels of immigration brought in by the Liberal party. The liberals are getting flushed in the polls. If things don’t change, the Liberals might get relegated to a minority party for a very long time.

 

[Lord_Tony]

Posted this in March after looking at how bad the rental market really was(and giving out my personal info for rental felt so dumb): https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/newcomer-pr-mortgage-questions.791545/

Bought my home yesterday. I landed here earlier this month for context. I posted most of what I had planned in that thread and it worked just as I thought it would. Feel free to browse what I did. I also feel happy to receive DMs from other immigrants who read my posts and were able to buy their homes post-landing too.

Some realizations:
1. for all the crash talk, there are a LOT of people with millions of dollars in cash who take any investment opportunity they can - the market is highly likely to not crash(can do down, but won't crash) as these people can easily wait out 5 years of tough market. Non-investors would crack first.
2. you'll always be forced on "investment opportunities", "keeping low equity", "flipping", etc and other lifestyle bs. There's money to be made there for sure, but it is something that deeply damages the market for some many others that there's a moral decision that one needs to make.
3. buying cheap = peace of mind. RE investments are not everything - it is purely lazy, unintelligent money that screws up our own fellow residents who one day would want to be able to buy a home to start their families.
4. if you are buying in a market like Calgary, be prepared to lose $30k-60k in future if you move out of the city due to job loss or in-search of better opportunities.

Congrats and thanks for sharing

 

[cedarcub]

Passport submission deadline extension

Hi, I received invitation letter to submit my passport for entry visa on 13th Oct. However, I am on vacation at the moment and cannot submit my passport within the due time.

AOR May 2023. Express Entry.

Has anyone requested for an extension for passport submission?? What was the outcome? What is the procedure?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lord_Tony]

Wait are you in Canada right now? If so , you could just call IRCC yourself. I did, took me almost a year before my PR card arrived, and I was constantly calling them to follow up.

Yes I can, I called them in June, July and Aug. Then after seeing the laziness and incompetence of the employees and broken system and processes I simply got fed up . I only order GCMS notes, my wife calls them but no progress still though. GCMS I try to order once monthly and timing is such that CBSA notes and IRCC notes have 2 weeks of each other.

In all this mess I should appreciate CBSA, they are quite regular in giving notes in exactly 30 days. But there also kings/queens in CBSA also, who sometimes come up with demands for copious amounts of forms that I need to fill before they release the notes to me, some even make me get my parents and in-laws also to sign such disclosure forms, even though their names are not in the notes, but hey when a officer majesty asks who am I to say no, they would pass death sentence to me, I comply .

But IRCC is lazy, my notes never come on time in 30 days as promised by law, also their ATIP emails ID needs 2-3 reminders before they send the notes. Often it comes 65-75 days after I raised them. There is supposedly a commissioner also to over see this laziness but that Commissioner takes 3-4 months to even look at our request which make our GCMS notes come after 6-7 months. Hail IRCC, Hail Canada Govt and Hail JT Hail holy croissant for the awesome service the departments they manage provide me after CRA collecting the highest tax% I have paid ever in my life.

Reaching out to the MP, for all the tax we pay why not make the bulky governments machinery do some work for me was my idea.

 

[JanCan12345]

I'm quite surprised the college did not take the admission fee first and then claim the letter was fake. Must appreciate their integrity.

Anyone knows a reliable transcript service in India for WES ECA ?