Indian Immigration to Canada should be encouraged ‎

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Former Canadian immigration minister Monte Solberg says that immigration solves many problems in Canada, including labour shortages.
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"Immigration should be encouraged between India and Canada to build strong connections between the two nations," he said, adding that health care workers were in particular demand.

Canada offers a variety of skilled immigration routes such as the Provincial Nominee program; This allows skilled Indian workers to gain permanent residence in Canada through sponsorship from a Province or Territory which is experiencing skills gaps in certain sectors. There is also an independent points based system called the Federal Skilled Worker program.

He also talked about lesser known immigration routes into Canada used by Indians such as the immigrant investor scheme.

Solberg said that people wishing to come under the immigrant investor scheme to Canada could gain permanent residence quite easily. He went on to say that the success rate for applications under the immigration investor scheme from Punjab, for example, was at 100 percent.

According to Solberg, immigration policy is unlikely to change in the near future.

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Former Canadian immigration minister Monte Solberg says that immigration solves many problems in Canada, including labour shortages.
Latest news

"Immigration should be encouraged between India and Canada to build strong connections between the two nations," he said, adding that health care workers were in particular demand.

Canada offers a variety of skilled immigration routes such as the Provincial Nominee program; This allows skilled Indian workers to gain permanent residence in Canada through sponsorship from a Province or Territory which is experiencing skills gaps in certain sectors. There is also an independent points based system called the Federal Skilled Worker program.

He also talked about lesser known immigration routes into Canada used by Indians such as the immigrant investor scheme.

Solberg said that people wishing to come under the immigrant investor scheme to Canada could gain permanent residence quite easily. He went on to say that the success rate for applications under the immigration investor scheme from Punjab, for example, was at 100 percent.

According to Solberg, immigration policy is unlikely to change in the near future.

http://www.workpermit.com/news/2011-05-02/canada/indian-immigration-to-canada-should-be-encouraged.htm

Canadian political leaders are alluring Indians living in Canada by promising increased number of Canada study visas and reduced immigration waiting times for Indians.

The Canadian parliamentary elections slated to be held on May 2 this year and the political parties of Canada are trying their level-best to woo Indo-Canadians to vote in their favor.

Their aim is to convince minority ethnic communities living in Canada that the concerned party is in their favor. Some of the top cream of opposition Liberal Party got together at the CIF(Canada-India Foundation) roundtable in Toronto.

Speaking at the CIF, the leaders reiterated their party's commitment to improve bilateral ties between Canada and India beyond trade. The move will include increased focus on higher immigration as well as tourism from India to Canada, the leaders maintained.

In addition, efforts will be made for nurturing better cooperation for education and research between both the nations, the leaders stated.

Past achievements of the party reminded to Indo-Canadians—Toronto MP Bob Rae reminded the immigrants in Canada hailing from India about the efforts of Paul Martin, the former Prime Minister of Canada and the leader of his party in inclusion of India among the G20 nations. Rae also emphasized on the need for better nuclear relations between India and Canada.

More Canada student visas for Indians—Markham-Unionville, Toronto MP, John McCallum, hinted at increasing the number of Canada student visas for Indian wanting to study in Canada. He stated that the Canadian government needs to revise its immigration rules for attracting more Indians to come and study in Canada adding that Australia was busy grabbing Canada's share of Indian students.

The number of Indians immigrating to Australia for studying there is stated to be around 40,000 while Canada attracts around 3,500 Indians on Canada student visas annually.

Reduced Canada immigration waiting times---The issue of family reunification seems to have become the hot button topic for political parties in Canada. Another Toronto MP, Rob Oliphant, reiterated his party's commitment to significantly reduce the current immigration waiting times under the family class immigration to five or six years. Presently, the waiting times for family class immigration are stated to be anything between 11 to 13 years.