One more reason to eliminate all Provincial Nominee Programs, as reported below. They do nothing for the economy, they are wasteful and inefficient, and create a system of intermediaries with a vested interest in the programs. Most PNPs are a failure. There should be one good investor and entrepreneur federal program and the provinces should get out of the business of immigration, most nominees do not settle in the provinces who selected them anyway and migrate immediately after landing to where the opportunities exist. Let the free market forces govern what businesses immigrants want to get involved into.
Frustrated Chinese citizens demand refunds from P.E.I. after immigration rejected - The Globe and Mail
Showing posts with label Canada immigration provincial nominee program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada immigration provincial nominee program. Show all posts
Monday, August 13, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
P.E.I. INVESTOR PROGRAM UNDER INVESTIGATION
See link below. In my opinion, all Provincial Nominee Programs are a joke and need to be shut down. They do nothing for the economy, and they do nothing for immigrants, only to allow some to park their families in Canada, get free education, free health care, in exchange for a dubious investment that only makes the banks rich and is a terrible allocation of capital. No sane investor would put money in one of those programs expecting a return, they merely use the program to gain residency. Shut them all down, including Quebec's, which is the worst offender as no one stays in that province, and design a federal program for real entrepreneurs who put capital at risk, bring innovation and create jobs and training. They have the right to succeed...and to fail. Memo to Minister Kenney: Let the free market prevail. Stop trying to be a nanny, these are well to do adults who can understand market risks and get independent legal advice.
Citizenship and Immigration investigating P.E.I. PNP - Local - The Guardian
Citizenship and Immigration investigating P.E.I. PNP - Local - The Guardian
Friday, April 13, 2012
MANITOBA CRIES FOUL OVER IMMIGRATION FUNDING CUTS
Sure...the program brings in a lot of people, but at what cost? How much exactly? How many remain in Manitoba long term? How many move to other provinces? What type of skills do they bring? Are they up to standard? Those are valid questions that need to be thoroughly quantified and analysed. If Manitoba wants to bring in people they should do it in a manner that they can afford without the subsidy by taxpayers from other provinces. Let the employer offer good jobs to the newcomers and there will be no need for increasing government services at federal cost.
Manitoba angry about federal immigration changes - Manitoba - CBC News
Manitoba angry about federal immigration changes - Manitoba - CBC News
Saturday, January 28, 2012
ATLANTIC CANADA NOMINEE PROGRAM A FAILURE
This has been known for a while in immigration legal circles: the Atlantic provinces Provincial Nominee Program was simply one more way for people to obtain residency and then immediately move out of those provinces to Ontario, British Columia or Alberta.
Kenney: Atlantic Canada's immigration plan is flawed CTV News
Kenney: Atlantic Canada's immigration plan is flawed CTV News
Friday, January 27, 2012
PROVINCIAL NOMIMEE PROGRAMS ON THE SPOTLIGHT
Today's editorial in the Globe and Mail is spot on: PNPs require scrutiny and accountability to ensure that immigrants are in fact retained by the provinces.
Provincial nominee program for immigrants on the right track - The Globe and Mail
Provincial nominee program for immigrants on the right track - The Globe and Mail
Thursday, January 26, 2012
PROVINCIAL NIOMINEE PROGRAMS TO FACE MORE SCRUTINY
Provincial Nominee porograms will be tightened by Ottawa amid concerns over fraud, corruption and retention issues.
Ottawa moves to tighten provincial immigration program - The Globe and Mail
Ottawa moves to tighten provincial immigration program
Ottawa moves to tighten provincial immigration program - The Globe and Mail
Ottawa moves to tighten provincial immigration program
anna mehler paperny
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Published
Last updated
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is setting out more stringent standards for the way provinces pick immigrants, even as he lauds the strategy as a success and economic boon.
The Provincial Nominee Program, which allows provinces to select their own quota of immigrants based on local economic needs, has received plaudits for turning Prairie provinces into migrant magnets.
But its record is far spottier out east: Incarnations of the program in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been beset by allegations of corruption, scathing auditors-general reports and multimillion-dollar settlements paid to immigrants claiming they’d been bamboozled by misleading claims. Concerns around investor streams of the program spread to Manitoba, where the Auditor-General is conducting her own review pre-emptively.
The program has expanded significantly and is changing the face of immigration in Canada, sending newcomers to regions in need of tradespeople rather than urban hubs where highly skilled immigrants often can’t get a job.
An evaluation of the nominee program, to be released Thursday, indicates Ottawa wants to have a more direct hand in ensuring the initiative works the way it wants it to.
Provinces will need to provide evidence they need the workers they pick and they’ll have to more closely monitor visa offices abroad, “including [for] fraud detection,” according to a summary provided to The Globe by a government source.
The summary also states that nominated immigrants will need to meet minimum language standards before immigrating. It recommends putting a “monitoring and reporting framework” in place to ensure provinces meet “agreed-upon performance indicators.” The suggestion is that failure to do so would have consequences on those provinces’ programs.
Mr. Kenney hinted at this leash-tightening in an interview with The Globe late last year. The program is a success, he said, but “we do have some concerns.”
“We want to make sure the provinces are managing the program with proper due diligence and proper integrity. We need to continue working with the provinces in that respect,” he said, making special reference to immigration consultants in Maritime provinces’ investor streams as a cause for concern.
“They’re approaching people overseas who have no intention of settling in Atlantic Canada,” he said. “That’s the kind of thing that we need to be mindful of and that’s one of the reasons we are not going to continue with the rate of growth in the program over the past few years until we’re able to sit down with the provinces and make sure our concerns are addressed.”
The Provincial Nominee Program, which allows provinces to select their own quota of immigrants based on local economic needs, has received plaudits for turning Prairie provinces into migrant magnets.
But its record is far spottier out east: Incarnations of the program in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been beset by allegations of corruption, scathing auditors-general reports and multimillion-dollar settlements paid to immigrants claiming they’d been bamboozled by misleading claims. Concerns around investor streams of the program spread to Manitoba, where the Auditor-General is conducting her own review pre-emptively.
The program has expanded significantly and is changing the face of immigration in Canada, sending newcomers to regions in need of tradespeople rather than urban hubs where highly skilled immigrants often can’t get a job.
An evaluation of the nominee program, to be released Thursday, indicates Ottawa wants to have a more direct hand in ensuring the initiative works the way it wants it to.
Provinces will need to provide evidence they need the workers they pick and they’ll have to more closely monitor visa offices abroad, “including [for] fraud detection,” according to a summary provided to The Globe by a government source.
The summary also states that nominated immigrants will need to meet minimum language standards before immigrating. It recommends putting a “monitoring and reporting framework” in place to ensure provinces meet “agreed-upon performance indicators.” The suggestion is that failure to do so would have consequences on those provinces’ programs.
Mr. Kenney hinted at this leash-tightening in an interview with The Globe late last year. The program is a success, he said, but “we do have some concerns.”
“We want to make sure the provinces are managing the program with proper due diligence and proper integrity. We need to continue working with the provinces in that respect,” he said, making special reference to immigration consultants in Maritime provinces’ investor streams as a cause for concern.
“They’re approaching people overseas who have no intention of settling in Atlantic Canada,” he said. “That’s the kind of thing that we need to be mindful of and that’s one of the reasons we are not going to continue with the rate of growth in the program over the past few years until we’re able to sit down with the provinces and make sure our concerns are addressed.”
Saturday, January 1, 2011
ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROVINCIAL NOMINEE PROGRAM CHEATS
See article below from the Toronto Star. There is a common "strategy" pursued by some potential immigrants, sometimes with the counselling of their unscrupulous representatives, that it is "fine" to obtain permanent residency under a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) of one province, and immediately after landing, abandon that province and move elsewhere, breaking terms and conditions imposed for obtaining residency. Such a strategy is not allowed, and so far immigration authorities have done little or nothing to stop it. But this is about to change, as indicated below. Provinces select immigrants based on their own needs, and try to plan resources accordingly. Changing domicile is a game played by those abusing the system. Potential immigrants are advised not to follow advise of that nature, which may be incorrect and/or unethical and always consult competent, ethical and specialized immigration counsel.
Ottawa clamps down on immigrants found cheating - thestar.com
Ottawa clamps down on immigrants found cheating
December 31, 2010
Nicholas Keung
Ottawa is stepping up its effort in combatting cheating immigrants who are selected under one province’s entrepreneur program but end up breaking the terms and moving to another.
Cheaters will be issued a warning letter and may lose their permanent resident status, according to a new Citizenship and Immigration Canada operational guideline.
Legal experts say this is just the beginning of Ottawa’s attempt to stamp out what they call “trampolining” by immigrants — being accepted by one province but settling in another. The enhanced enforcement begins in Quebec but is expected to expand to other provincially administered immigration programs.
Provinces are increasingly taking charge of the selection of economic immigrants to serve the needs of their local labour market and economy, though the federal government is still responsible in issuing permanent resident visas.
“These immigrants are selected on the strength of that province. They commit themselves to a province in exchange for an immigrant visa,” said Quebec immigration lawyer Richard Kurland.
“It is not right if an entrepreneur or investor says they are going to go work and live in a province and then go to another.”
According to Canada’s immigrant database, 11 per cent of the one million new immigrants who came to the country within five years and filed tax returns in 2006 had moved from their declared province of destination.
More than 24,000, or 14 per cent, of immigrants originally destined for Quebec ended up filing taxes in other provinces.
In recent months, immigration lawyers are seeing a surge of cases where newcomers landing in Canada are turned away at port of entry because they fail to show plane tickets or proof of arranged accommodation for their declared destined city, according to Kurland.
The courts, so far, have sided with border officials, Kurland said.
In the new department guideline, front-line immigration officers are ordered to “monitor” the entrepreneurs selected by Quebec who now live or have a mailing address outside of the province. It applies to all those admitted under the program after Oct. 16, 2006.
A report “should be prepared detailing the allegation of non-compliance . . . (and) be referred to the Immigration Division for an admissibility hearing,” it said.
To gain permanent resident status under the Quebec entrepreneur program, an applicant must own at least 25 per cent of a company in the province, with an investment no less than $100,000.
Not only do they have to manage the enterprises’ day-to-day operations, they must also stay and live in the province for at least 12 months in the initial three years of residence.
Kurland said other provinces will benefit from the new directive, especially if it is going to be expanded to other provincial immigration classes, such as investors and skilled workers programs.
The federal government provides funding to newcomers’ language training and integration programs in each province based on the number of immigrants who declare it as their destinations in their immigration applications. The funding doesn’t take “secondary migrants” into account.
Ottawa clamps down on immigrants found cheating - thestar.com
Ottawa clamps down on immigrants found cheating
December 31, 2010
Nicholas Keung
Ottawa is stepping up its effort in combatting cheating immigrants who are selected under one province’s entrepreneur program but end up breaking the terms and moving to another.
Cheaters will be issued a warning letter and may lose their permanent resident status, according to a new Citizenship and Immigration Canada operational guideline.
Legal experts say this is just the beginning of Ottawa’s attempt to stamp out what they call “trampolining” by immigrants — being accepted by one province but settling in another. The enhanced enforcement begins in Quebec but is expected to expand to other provincially administered immigration programs.
Provinces are increasingly taking charge of the selection of economic immigrants to serve the needs of their local labour market and economy, though the federal government is still responsible in issuing permanent resident visas.
“These immigrants are selected on the strength of that province. They commit themselves to a province in exchange for an immigrant visa,” said Quebec immigration lawyer Richard Kurland.
“It is not right if an entrepreneur or investor says they are going to go work and live in a province and then go to another.”
According to Canada’s immigrant database, 11 per cent of the one million new immigrants who came to the country within five years and filed tax returns in 2006 had moved from their declared province of destination.
More than 24,000, or 14 per cent, of immigrants originally destined for Quebec ended up filing taxes in other provinces.
In recent months, immigration lawyers are seeing a surge of cases where newcomers landing in Canada are turned away at port of entry because they fail to show plane tickets or proof of arranged accommodation for their declared destined city, according to Kurland.
The courts, so far, have sided with border officials, Kurland said.
In the new department guideline, front-line immigration officers are ordered to “monitor” the entrepreneurs selected by Quebec who now live or have a mailing address outside of the province. It applies to all those admitted under the program after Oct. 16, 2006.
A report “should be prepared detailing the allegation of non-compliance . . . (and) be referred to the Immigration Division for an admissibility hearing,” it said.
To gain permanent resident status under the Quebec entrepreneur program, an applicant must own at least 25 per cent of a company in the province, with an investment no less than $100,000.
Not only do they have to manage the enterprises’ day-to-day operations, they must also stay and live in the province for at least 12 months in the initial three years of residence.
Kurland said other provinces will benefit from the new directive, especially if it is going to be expanded to other provincial immigration classes, such as investors and skilled workers programs.
The federal government provides funding to newcomers’ language training and integration programs in each province based on the number of immigrants who declare it as their destinations in their immigration applications. The funding doesn’t take “secondary migrants” into account.
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