and Nicholas Keung, Staff Reporters of the TheStar.com writes:
The organization that oversees immigration consultants is toothless and should be dismantled, replaced by a statutory body empowered to go after unscrupulous advisers who prey on vulnerable migrants, urges a report tabled in the House of Commons yesterday.
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Controversial changes to the Canadian Immigration Act have been accepted in the House of Commons. The changes give power to the immigration minister, Diane Finley, to fast-track the processing of visas to Canada for skilled workers of her choosing.
Minister Finley claims that the changes will allow Citizenship & Immigration Canada to speed up the immigration process for those immigrants whose skills are most needed, as well as reducing the massive backlog of visa applications currently queued for processing.
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ACitizenship and Immigration Canada backlog of applications will increase to 1.6 millions by 2012, and waiting time will grow from 6 to 10 years.
There is a few factors that have contributed to the situation:
Canada is a popular destination for reasons other than its multiculturalism. Its point selection system for skilled immigrants, unlike most other Western countries, gives people chance to move here as permanent residents even though they don’t have family connections, a Canadian education or a job lined up.
Nearly one million of applications were filed in 2000 and 2001 when the former Liberal government prepared to raise the application pass mark, which would make it more difficult to apply and cut the existing backlog.
In that same budget year, immigration staff at overseas visa offices was cut from 1,403 to 1,366.
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Picture from Citizenship and Immigration Canada website shows projected backlog of application for permanent residence.
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