Not to attack you here. However, I cannot judge Australian immigration system because I never had personal experience with it. I am very familiar with Canadian immigration because of so many reasons including personal experiences. My parents are already here in Canada on super visa since April. I also learned that you can apply for regular TRV for your parents and eventually apply for extension, a few parents on regular visit visa got maximum 2 years authorized stay without buying health insurance. But of course their host has to demonstrate that they can afford to provide their guests with EVERYTHING. If I am an australian citizen applying for parents' immigrant visa, I can still afford their fees without my husband co-signing it becuase I work harder and earn more. A lot of Filipinos here are working 2 to 3 jobs just to earn more and to get EVERYTHING they wanted, especially their parents. So basically, the solution to expensive processing is to work harder. In Australia, based on what I had read, you can get your processing done faster, but you have to pay more. We are Filipinos and we are known for being hard worker and family oriented. We leave our home country for greener pasture. Greener pasture needs lots of cultivating and us Filipinos are known for being good at that. There's only a few Filipinos here who are relying on welfare and most them have this solid reason why they have to do so. Now about economic class immigration, I trust that they are only accepting applicants whose training and work are currently in demand. If Canada decides not to accept anymore workers from outside, that means Canada has enough workers to do the jobs. I cannot put Canada down as most of my dreams and prayers came true in this used to be a foreign country.
