Online Consultants Can Help You Relocate To Canada

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Posted on May 18, 2010, 9:15 am, by Adriana Noton, under SEO & Google Marketing.

There are many residents in Canada who know somebody who is in the planning stage of immigrating to Canada. Or, it could be a relative or friend who wants to enroll at one of the country’s excellent universities or schools. Either way, you should recommend the use of one Canada’s immigration consultants.
There are so many reasons why people seek citizenship in Canada. Apart from its awesome beauty and vast natural resources, the United Nations declared Canada to be the ‘best country to live in’ for 7 consecutive years. It is the 2nd largest country in the world and is America’s biggest trading partner. A Canadian passport allows citizens entry to over 20 countries without having to apply for a visa.
It is a multicultural, diverse country offering fantastic options for business growth and job opportunities. A comprehensive public health scheme is offered to every citizen. In addition, it has good judicial and welfare systems. With many fine schools, public and private, Canada is known to be one of the best educated nations in the world. People of varying cultures and backgrounds live in complete harmony, and Canada is free of discrimination.
The government has taken steps to encourage immigration. This is to guarantee that long-term plans for economic development come to fruition. It is hoped that at the end of 2010, some 250,000 new citizens will settle in Canada. With this injection of skilled labor, the country can grow and quickly recover from the economic downslide.
To encourage immigrants, the government has allowed each province to determine the number of extra skilled workers needed. Quebec has made great strides in this regard and has implemented an effective Skilled Worker program. This is to facilitate an easy immigration transition for new residents.
Essentially, this means that Quebec has formed its own unique immigration policy. It has laid down a set of criteria that do not necessarily conform to existing national immigration policies. This means that if you have applied for a work visa, but it has been declined, you are free to apply to Quebec.
To receive immigration approval, a person has to be skilled so that they can easily be integrated into Canada’s job market. To further increase chances of success, applicants should have a basic knowledge of French, and able to converse fluently in English. Those who have qualifications in a highly skilled field will receive priority.
It will help to have family members who are Canadian citizens or those who have ‘permanent resident’ status. If the applicant is married, his or her spouse may have ties with Canadian residents. In this case, these details should also be furnished. Most importantly, the applicant should be in possession of a written employment offer by a registered business in Canada.
Seeking out immigration consultants is easy online. It would be best to find one who is well versed with all the immigration criteria in Canada and its provinces. By hiring such a person, you could save expenses and lengthy waiting periods. Your consultant will be able to ensure that the application goes through smoothly. If every requirement has been properly addressed, you should have a good chance of success.
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Skilled immigrant-worker need to skyrocket by 2020, study says

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By Ian Shelton, Times Colonist June 18, 2010

 

Robert Cui was happily shocked last July. After two years of scraping by in Victoria, two years of weighing the value of going to a meeting or ponying up $2.25 for bus fare, the single father from northern China was a security check away from a post with the Department of National Defence.
"I just couldn't believe it. I didn't believe I could get anything from the federal government," Cui said, pointing to eight fruitless interviews with provincial departments.
The elation was short-lived. Not yet a Canadian citizen, Cui was not eligible for the job.
Cui was crushed but took the bad news in stride.
"Sometimes it's just about how to accept reality."
Cui's disappointment is common among recent immigrants. But a looming labour shortage and dwindling numbers of skilled workers immigrating to B.C. mean the province will be forced to share in his troubles.
In the next decade, B.C. will depend on immigrants to fill about one in three job openings, according to the recently released British Columbia Labour Market Outlook: 2009-2019. At the same time, the number of skilled workers immigrating to the province appears to have hit a 15-year low.
About 15,100 skilled workers settled in the province last year, based on B.C. Stats numbers and provincial government targets. It's the lowest total since 1994.
These numbers include federal skilled worker program immigrants -- 12,081 for 2009 -- and provincial nominee program numbers -- a target of 3,000 for fiscal 2009-10 -- as well as actual numbers for a mix of previous fiscal and calendar years.
The problem has not gone unnoticed in the provincial government.
"Immigration is the key to future economic growth in B.C.," Moira Stilwell, the minister in charge of labour market development said by e-mail. "Even though the economy has slowed down, skilled labour shortages remain."
Until a decade ago, engineers, accountants and other immigrants selected for their skills arrived under the federal skilled worker program. Since then, the B.C. government has expanded its provincial nominee program, which fast-tracks applications for people with skills in short supply locally.
The program took in 2,500 skilled workers in 2008, with about 3,000 expected during the last fiscal year and more than twice that number hoped for by 2012.
During the same time, though, the federal program has dwindled, delivering half the number of skilled immigrants to the province last year as it did at its peak, more than a decade ago.
To some extent, the program is a victim of its own success -- attracting a glut of immigrants that settlement services were ill-prepared to absorb.
Annie Shum, a counsellor with the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre, said the problems of credential recognition, language barriers and a lack of North American experience continue to plague her customers.
Shum heads up the centre's Skills Connect program, a provincial initiative that supports skilled immigrants hunting for work. She said that the challenges immigrants face are often hard to predict.

"I know of one client who is an engineer. She comes from a country where they're at war right now so it's impossible to get her credentials from the university," said Shum.
Stilwell said some studies place the outflow of immigrants to other provinces and countries at as high as one in three, though B.C. gains more immigrants from other provinces than it loses.
"Regardless of the actual figures, the loss of immigrants ... is a matter of concern to B.C. as it represents not just a loss of human capital to the province, but a missed opportunity for both the province and the immigrant."
For Cui, the pressures of migration took a personal toll. The loneliness and relative poverty that accompanied the move to Canada strained his marriage to the breaking point. His wife returned home two years ago, leaving Cui with his son Bob, now six years old.
He said he doesn't fault Bob's mother. He said he accepted her choice and has moved forward.
Last week, he found work at a large electronics manufacturer, Schneider Electric in Saanich, which produces sensors for power systems. More secure than he's been in a long time, Cui said he never doubted his choice to migrate.
"Whatever happens, I got my son here," he said.
"I win."

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New rules aim to strengthen the value of Canadian Citizenship

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Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney introduced legislation that would streamline the citizenship revocation process, crack down on crooked citizenship consultants and better protect the value of Canadian citizenship.

“Canadian citizenship is highly valued around the world and today we are taking steps to ensure it stays that way,” said Minister Kenney. “These changes will help prevent citizenship fraud. As promised in the Speech from the Throne, these amendments will streamline the process to take citizenship away from those who have acquired it by fraud, including by concealment of their war crimes. And it would take decision-making away from politicians and give it to the courts.”

The full package of amendments would strengthen the process of applying for citizenship and crack down on citizenship fraud. Bill C-37: Strengthening the Value of Canadian Citizenship Act proposes to:

* Add legal authority to regulate citizenship consultants and to crack down where they help people gain citizenship fraudulently, in line with the recently proposed amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act – The Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act – aimed at immigration consultants.
* Increase the penalties for citizenship fraud to a maximum of $100,000 or up to five years in prison or both.
* Strengthen citizenship residence requirements to specify in the law that people applying for citizenship would have to be physically present in Canada for three of the previous four years.
* Improve the government’s ability to bar criminals, including violent foreign criminals, from becoming Canadian citizens.
* Streamline the revocation and removal process and make revocation more transparent by shifting the decision making on revocations from the Governor in Council to the Federal Court.
* Ensure that the law supports the implementation of the first generation limit to passing on citizenship, ensure that the law does not unintentionally bar applicants who are eligible for citizenship, and ensure that the children of people serving Canada aboard – children of Crown servants – are not disadvantaged by their parent’s service to Canada and are able to pass on citizenship to their children.

“Canadian citizenship is more than a legal status, more than a passport,” said Minister Kenney. “We expect citizens to have an ongoing commitment, connection and loyalty to Canada.”

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