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Marc Miller Annnounces End to Flagpoling

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Marc Miller also announced the end to 50 points for LMIA. Didn’t elaborate.
The flagpoling thing was coming sooner or later. Not surprising.

I'm assuming the 50 points is happening because there were to many arranged / fake job offers happening. Will be interesting to see the details but if they are talking 50 points, the only thing I can think of which that applies to is EE.
 
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The flagpoling thing was coming sooner or later. Not surprising.

I'm assuming the 50 points is happening because there were to many arranged / fake job offers happening. Will be interesting to see the details but if they are talking 50 points, the only thing I can think of which that applies to is EE.
Think fake LMIAs were also leading to less than ideal candidates being selected while “better” candidates are not getting an invitations. This levels the playing field a bit more but sadly also gives candidates who have been working for an employer longterm and will keep on working for the employer after PR a disadvantage. Trying to weed out the fraud is hard and very labour intensive. Also assume that this will be limited to EE so doesn’t solve the fraud for WPs.
 
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Think fake LMIAs were also leading to less than ideal candidates being selected while “better” candidates are not getting an invitations. This levels the playing field a bit more but sadly also gives candidates who have been working for an employer longterm and will keep on working for the employer after PR a disadvantage. Trying to weed out the fraud is hard and very labour intensive. Also assume that this will be limited to EE so doesn’t solve the fraud for WPs.
This is just a bandaid.
 

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This is just a bandaid.
Agree but happy to see any reform these days. On a positive note giving out WPs for only a year may cut down on the value of LMIAs and there seems to be some scrutiny of LMIAs and WPs now. Asylum & H&C programs should be next on the reform list. Would also like to see supervisa visit length return to 2 years without the ability to keep on extending for years. The longer supervisa & PGP quotas are just pushing people to file H&C which are ridiculously expensive to process and defeats the purpose of a PGP quota.