FSW Inland PR applicants

[Princes2020]

I read that they were processing 14 000 CEC VS 600 FSW per month?
Anyway it is just a matter of management of those applications. The agents just process what we tell them to process, and apparently we ask them to process way more CeC than FSW.
Why you may ask? I personally think that statistically speaking
1. Cec applicants are in the country
2. they are working and already well integrated / paying taxes in the country
3. Cec are young and willing to work jobs that Canada is craving for (low paying jobs in service for example)

You will tell me that you are in this case, they know it, they should process my case, but that s where it doesn t matter if we just look through the lense of statistics. Let s face the facts, we are nothing for Canada but a number, a meatball needed to sustain their economy. And knowing that IRCC is shit to deal with data or to distribute those applications, I am sure they just asked the VO to « process XX CEC and XX FSW » based on a few stats that would respond the most to their needs.

my little theory

1. Not all CEC are inland
2. Not all CEC are on job
3. Not all CEC are young
If compared, pnp inland and fsw inland are better settled and contributing to economy.

 

[eduardo_brazil]

My PGWP & OHIP expire today and I can relate to this. I applied for BOWP last Sept and still no update.. So lost..

thats scary because my WP expires in 6 months andI have not yet applied for BOWP…

 

[JSF]

Guys, important question here:

in terms of employment, we keep hearing of implied status, fine.

Now what about health care coverage? This concerns me very much. With the delayed processing times of BOWP, what happens with our access to health care when we are under implied status?!

I've been in Canada for so many years and never got to be eligible for Health Care coverage (first as a university student, now as a self-employed). That sucks... I'm getting sick of anxiety (stomach pain, eye twitching, insomnia, etc) and I can't even go to a doctor without spending a lot of money. I can't even have proper preventive care, cause my private insurance only covers emergency treatment.

And still, I'm obligated to pay taxes for my earnings as a self-employed person and I do it right every year.

 

[eduardo_brazil]

I've been in Canada for so many years and never got to be eligible for Health Care coverage (first as a university student, now as a self-employed). That sucks... I'm getting sick of anxiety (stomach pain, eye twitching, insomnia, etc) and I can't even go to a doctor without spending a lot of money. I can't even have proper preventive care, cause my private insurance only covers emergency treatment.

And still, I'm obligated to pay taxes for my earnings as a self-employed person and I do it right every year.

wow!

Are u sure there isn’t an option for OHIP for self employed?!
It’s risky living without health coverage. If you get really sick, would you go back to your home country for treatment?

 

[JSF]

wow!

Are u sure there isn’t an option for OHIP for self employed?!
It’s risky living without health coverage. If you get really sick, would you go back to your home country for treatment?

OHIP is an option for self-employed after PR but not on PGWP.
I have health insurance which covers up to $100.000 in emergency treatment, but not preventative care.
If I had to have emergency surgery, for example, I would do it here and the private insurance would cover it.
But I think that if I was diagnosed with a severe condition like cancer I would most certainly travel back home to have it treated there as $100.000 is not much money in that case.

 

[NewHope2021]

OHIP is an option for self-employed after PR but not on PGWP.
I have health insurance which covers up to $100.000 in emergency treatment, but not preventative care.
If I had to have emergency surgery, for example, I would do it here and the private insurance would cover it.
But I think that if I was diagnosed with a severe condition like cancer I would most certainly travel back home to have it treated there as $100.000 is not much money in that case.

Hi JSF, I've been in your shoes as self employed and yet got coverage from OHIP, legally. How? The company I was working for wrote a letter saying that I was working in a full-time capacity (at least 30hr/week) for them as a contractor - brought this letter to a Service Ontario (777 Bay location) and they issued my OHIP card. Ask your main client to write you a letter, unless you're working as a freelancer for many clients.

 

[eduardo_brazil]

OHIP is an option for self-employed after PR but not on PGWP.
I have health insurance which covers up to $100.000 in emergency treatment, but not preventative care.
If I had to have emergency surgery, for example, I would do it here and the private insurance would cover it.
But I think that if I was diagnosed with a severe condition like cancer I would most certainly travel back home to have it treated there as $100.000 is not much money in that case.

got it, make sense! Good that you have an insurance.!

so exactly, health care is another impact that this crazy delay is producing.

And it’s a result of negligence right?
When Trudeau announced that they were going to keep immigration targets and compensate the soft numbers front the Pandemic, I thought, back then, that was good news. More invitations, more likelihood to finish my process…

now I realized I was so wrong! The backlog and delays occurred as a direct consequence of having a smaller processing capacity versus a too high number of invitation being issued!

basically, since the pandemic, their processing went down to 200,000 apps a year against 400,000 invitations annually!

That was precisely the source of the backlog.
Now it’s bouncing back, since they’ve been processing 40,000 a month, but it’s a 2 year accumulation to fix….

 

[JSF]

Hi JSF, I've been in your shoes as self employed and yet got coverage from OHIP, legally. How? The company I was working for wrote a letter saying that I was working in a full-time capacity (at least 30hr/week) for them as a contractor - brought this letter to a Service Ontario (777 Bay location) and they issued my OHIP card. Ask your main client to write you a letter, unless you're working as a freelancer for many clients.

Thanks for the advice.
The problem is that I don't have one main client to write the letter to me. I work as a freelancer with digital products, and it's lucrative but very unstable in terms of clients and monthly revenue. I wouldn't be able to provide that proof of employment. I checked with my representative.
I'm just stuck being marginalized from the system and on that eternal wait for my life to begin.

 

[eduardo_brazil]

Thanks for the advice.
The problem is that I don't have one main client to write the letter to me. I work as a freelancer with digital products, and it's lucrative but very unstable in terms of clients and monthly revenue. I wouldn't be able to provide that proof of employment. I checked with my representative.
I'm just stuck being marginalized from the system and on that eternal wait for my life to begin.

so true! Marginalized is the term!

 

[JSF]

I am paying for the score I got in IELTS; I got a very good score in IELTS and my score was sufficient for FSW so applied it instead of waiting for the 1-year experience and applying as CEC, wish I had a lower IELTS score I would have applied as a CEC candidate and would have achieved my PR by now.

It's so unfair. We're are being penalized for being "too good". We got an overall score high enough to qualify as pure FSW, which is a result of years of studies and hard work, and now we're doomed because of that.

 

[rahul.ahuja]

Just now saw a post in group of cec getting pr in less than 2 months. here we don’t even get gcms notes in that much time.

Hilarious. But True.

 

[GSB_20]

Hello All,

I'm AOR Dec 2020, applied for BOWP on Sep 29, 2021 and received my BOWP on Dec 14.
Still no updates on my APR. Maybe all we can do is just wait and hope for the best.

 

[JM_X]

Has the rain stopped?

 

[Holy Cow]

Has the rain stopped?

was it really raining ? I mean even ..

 

[hamid123456]

I've been in Canada for so many years and never got to be eligible for Health Care coverage (first as a university student, now as a self-employed). That sucks... I'm getting sick of anxiety (stomach pain, eye twitching, insomnia, etc) and I can't even go to a doctor without spending a lot of money. I can't even have proper preventive care, cause my private insurance only covers emergency treatment.

And still, I'm obligated to pay taxes for my earnings as a self-employed person and I do it right every year.

I don't know what province you live in, but Ontario really has some big issue in giving Health Card to work permit holders.

They requirement for OHIP to work permit holders is:
Having a full-time job in Ontario

First I had a 12-month contract job. Because in my work letter it was mentioned that I work 37 hours a week but the employer could change my work hours, they refused to give me OHIP.

Then, I had a full time permanent job from a company in BC while I was residing in ON (the position was remote). Again, they refused to give me OHIP because my employer's office address was in BC!

But in BC, the only requirement for health card is to reside in BC for more than three month. After three month, they will give you health card with no issue.