How come there are only 1082 invitations when there are 1099 above 600? What is this scenario?
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FSWs shall rise again!Previously, a lot of people despised PNP. I remember how the FSW guys used to shun we PNP folks, mocking us for tying ourselves to a province when we could be like them and have the freedom of choice on where to live in Canada.
How the tides have turned.
I think it means there's 1099 people between 600 and the cutoff for today's draw
Looking at those statistics, I wonder how IRCC plans on keeping the cut off score at 500 for FSW and CEC after the draws resume. Or they probably plan on having one draw every 4 weeks and issuing no more than 500 ITAs per draw
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I literally checked everything 5 times on different days just to make sure everything is correct before pressing submit on the application.
Poor guy.
Woman faces removal from Canada after college admission letter turned out to be fake .
Immigration hearing finds woman responsible for misrepresentation though she was unaware of the fraud
What Karamjeet Kaur wanted most when she arrived in Canada in 2018 was to live independently and be treated like everybody else.
But after completing post-secondary studies in Edmonton and holding down a job for years, the 24-year-old woman from India now faces expulsion.
An admission letter to an Ontario college, which helped her get her study permit, turned out to be fake. The letter was procured by a private immigration agent.
Kaur says she only learned the letter wasn't real last year when she was applying to stay in Canada permanently.
"It all happened because we trust[ed] someone," Kaur said in an interview this month.
Kaur grew up in a small community in Punjab in northern India. A childhood accident left her with limited blood circulation on her right side, she said, which can make it difficult to move her right arm and leg.
"There was so much discrimination, especially with the women, and I was a disabled woman so I face a lot of discrimination," Kaur said.
She attracted stares wherever she went and was harassed by classmates at school, she said.
Her disability made it unlikely she'd ever be able to get a good job or find a spouse in India, she said.
Her family decided to seek out the help of an immigration agent.
Her father, as head of the family, handled the discussions, she said. The agent took payment and Kaur's information.
Neither Kaur's father, a farmer, or her mother, a homemaker, has more than a Grade 10 level education. The family did not own a computer and had little insight into immigration processes, says Kaur's lawyer, Manraj Sidhu.
Three days before her flight to Canada in April 2018, the agent returned and provided Kaur with an acceptance letter from Seneca College in Toronto.
Journey to Canada
Kaur made the trip, presenting the letter to border officials who approved it and granted her a study permit.
The immigration agent contacted Kaur once she was in Ontario and told her the placement at Seneca wasn't available anymore as he had severed his relationship with the college.
He encouraged her to enrol in an expensive private college, but instead Kaur applied and was accepted at Norquest College in Edmonton.
At first, it was difficult to adjust to a new country, but eventually she found a job as a cashier, Kaur said.
She has friends, and in June 2020 graduated from Norquest with a diploma in business administration management.
"I don't get any discrimination from this country. Like, I feel as a normal person," Kaur said.
Her plan to stay in Canada long term was going according to plan until she applied for permanent residency.
On May 25, 2021, a Canada Border Services Agency employee told her the Seneca College letter was fraudulent.
Kaur said she was shocked by the revelation. She and her family didn't know much about the immigration process and had trusted the agent.
Hiring immigration agents is a common practice for people in her community who hope to move abroad, she said.
Predatory immigration agents taking advantage of people hoping to come to or stay in Canada is common, says Marco Luciano, director of Migrante Alberta.
"It's a billion dollar industry. These consultants or third parties have really taken advantage of this industry of migration," he said.
"The bottom line is everybody has to do their research prior to letting an immigration consultant or a recruiter handle their documents," he said.
Luciano said the recent establishment of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants has helped bring more oversight to the issue, but he said much more needs to be done.
Story found credible
Kaur made her case at a hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on Jan. 19, but the decision-maker overseeing the hearing sided with the lawyer for the federal minister of public safety and issued an exclusion order.
Once she leaves, Kaur will not be allowed to return to Canada for five years.
"I do find that her testimony was credible; there's nothing in her testimony that would suggest to me that she didn't genuinely believe she was admitted to Seneca College," the decision-maker said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
But as an adult who had managed to make her way to Canada in the first place, Kaur should have taken steps to verify her status at Seneca herself, the decision said.
"In fact, in my view, it would be reasonable for a student to reach out to their school upon admission instead of relying completely on an immigration consultant."
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokespeople confirmed that Kaur is facing an exclusion order, but declined a request for an interview.
Uphill legal battle
Kaur's lawyer has applied for leave to seek a judicial review to have the order overturned.
Sidhu said his client faces an uphill battle legally.
"It is very unreasonable for the decision-maker to expect a disabled woman from rural India who never had a phone, who never had a bank account, who was never left to her house without the supervision of her parents — she never had access to any sort of internet — to expect her to contact the college authorities herself and find out if her letter of acceptance is real or not," he said.
Upon discovering the letter was fake, Kaur asked her father to report the agent to police in India.
Documents from the High Court of Punjab and Haryana which Sidhu provided to CBC show the agent is under investigation for the fraudulent letter and taking money from Kaur's family.
The agent is out of jail despite having his bail revoked and has been contacting Kaur's family and threatening them, Kaur and Sidhu said.
He is also warning Kaur against returning to India and testifying, she said.
"I don't think . . . police are going to save me from that person."
Sidhu plans to file a second application seeking to allow Kaur to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Kaur is not only frightened about returning to India, she's worried about losing what Canada has given her.
"I can do my stuff [on] my own here," she said. "I don't want to be dependent on others."
Can't say the same bud. I am also pre-ITA but this wait is killin' me since under normal circumstances I would have secured my ITA long ago...
My current CRS score is 481 without any links to Canada whatsoever. I am wondering whether I should wait for the supposed all program draws to resume or figure out smthg to boost my score further.
I don't know, but this seems way to fishy for me to believe.
Woman faces removal from Canada after college admission letter turned out to be fake .
Immigration hearing finds woman responsible for misrepresentation though she was unaware of the fraud
What Karamjeet Kaur wanted most when she arrived in Canada in 2018 was to live independently and be treated like everybody else.
But after completing post-secondary studies in Edmonton and holding down a job for years, the 24-year-old woman from India now faces expulsion.
An admission letter to an Ontario college, which helped her get her study permit, turned out to be fake. The letter was procured by a private immigration agent.
Kaur says she only learned the letter wasn't real last year when she was applying to stay in Canada permanently.
"It all happened because we trust[ed] someone," Kaur said in an interview this month.
Kaur grew up in a small community in Punjab in northern India. A childhood accident left her with limited blood circulation on her right side, she said, which can make it difficult to move her right arm and leg.
"There was so much discrimination, especially with the women, and I was a disabled woman so I face a lot of discrimination," Kaur said.
She attracted stares wherever she went and was harassed by classmates at school, she said.
Her disability made it unlikely she'd ever be able to get a good job or find a spouse in India, she said.
Her family decided to seek out the help of an immigration agent.
Her father, as head of the family, handled the discussions, she said. The agent took payment and Kaur's information.
Neither Kaur's father, a farmer, or her mother, a homemaker, has more than a Grade 10 level education. The family did not own a computer and had little insight into immigration processes, says Kaur's lawyer, Manraj Sidhu.
Three days before her flight to Canada in April 2018, the agent returned and provided Kaur with an acceptance letter from Seneca College in Toronto.
Journey to Canada
Kaur made the trip, presenting the letter to border officials who approved it and granted her a study permit.
The immigration agent contacted Kaur once she was in Ontario and told her the placement at Seneca wasn't available anymore as he had severed his relationship with the college.
He encouraged her to enrol in an expensive private college, but instead Kaur applied and was accepted at Norquest College in Edmonton.
At first, it was difficult to adjust to a new country, but eventually she found a job as a cashier, Kaur said.
She has friends, and in June 2020 graduated from Norquest with a diploma in business administration management.
"I don't get any discrimination from this country. Like, I feel as a normal person," Kaur said.
Her plan to stay in Canada long term was going according to plan until she applied for permanent residency.
On May 25, 2021, a Canada Border Services Agency employee told her the Seneca College letter was fraudulent.
Kaur said she was shocked by the revelation. She and her family didn't know much about the immigration process and had trusted the agent.
Hiring immigration agents is a common practice for people in her community who hope to move abroad, she said.
Predatory immigration agents taking advantage of people hoping to come to or stay in Canada is common, says Marco Luciano, director of Migrante Alberta.
"It's a billion dollar industry. These consultants or third parties have really taken advantage of this industry of migration," he said.
"The bottom line is everybody has to do their research prior to letting an immigration consultant or a recruiter handle their documents," he said.
Luciano said the recent establishment of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants has helped bring more oversight to the issue, but he said much more needs to be done.
Story found credible
Kaur made her case at a hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on Jan. 19, but the decision-maker overseeing the hearing sided with the lawyer for the federal minister of public safety and issued an exclusion order.
Once she leaves, Kaur will not be allowed to return to Canada for five years.
"I do find that her testimony was credible; there's nothing in her testimony that would suggest to me that she didn't genuinely believe she was admitted to Seneca College," the decision-maker said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
But as an adult who had managed to make her way to Canada in the first place, Kaur should have taken steps to verify her status at Seneca herself, the decision said.
"In fact, in my view, it would be reasonable for a student to reach out to their school upon admission instead of relying completely on an immigration consultant."
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokespeople confirmed that Kaur is facing an exclusion order, but declined a request for an interview.
Uphill legal battle
Kaur's lawyer has applied for leave to seek a judicial review to have the order overturned.
Sidhu said his client faces an uphill battle legally.
"It is very unreasonable for the decision-maker to expect a disabled woman from rural India who never had a phone, who never had a bank account, who was never left to her house without the supervision of her parents — she never had access to any sort of internet — to expect her to contact the college authorities herself and find out if her letter of acceptance is real or not," he said.
Upon discovering the letter was fake, Kaur asked her father to report the agent to police in India.
Documents from the High Court of Punjab and Haryana which Sidhu provided to CBC show the agent is under investigation for the fraudulent letter and taking money from Kaur's family.
The agent is out of jail despite having his bail revoked and has been contacting Kaur's family and threatening them, Kaur and Sidhu said.
He is also warning Kaur against returning to India and testifying, she said.
"I don't think . . . police are going to save me from that person."
Sidhu plans to file a second application seeking to allow Kaur to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Kaur is not only frightened about returning to India, she's worried about losing what Canada has given her.
"I can do my stuff [on] my own here," she said. "I don't want to be dependent on others."
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Woman faces removal from Canada after college admission letter turned out to be fake .
Immigration hearing finds woman responsible for misrepresentation though she was unaware of the fraud
What Karamjeet Kaur wanted most when she arrived in Canada in 2018 was to live independently and be treated like everybody else.
But after completing post-secondary studies in Edmonton and holding down a job for years, the 24-year-old woman from India now faces expulsion.
An admission letter to an Ontario college, which helped her get her study permit, turned out to be fake. The letter was procured by a private immigration agent.
Kaur says she only learned the letter wasn't real last year when she was applying to stay in Canada permanently.
"It all happened because we trust[ed] someone," Kaur said in an interview this month.
Kaur grew up in a small community in Punjab in northern India. A childhood accident left her with limited blood circulation on her right side, she said, which can make it difficult to move her right arm and leg.
"There was so much discrimination, especially with the women, and I was a disabled woman so I face a lot of discrimination," Kaur said.
She attracted stares wherever she went and was harassed by classmates at school, she said.
Her disability made it unlikely she'd ever be able to get a good job or find a spouse in India, she said.
Her family decided to seek out the help of an immigration agent.
Her father, as head of the family, handled the discussions, she said. The agent took payment and Kaur's information.
Neither Kaur's father, a farmer, or her mother, a homemaker, has more than a Grade 10 level education. The family did not own a computer and had little insight into immigration processes, says Kaur's lawyer, Manraj Sidhu.
Three days before her flight to Canada in April 2018, the agent returned and provided Kaur with an acceptance letter from Seneca College in Toronto.
Journey to Canada
Kaur made the trip, presenting the letter to border officials who approved it and granted her a study permit.
The immigration agent contacted Kaur once she was in Ontario and told her the placement at Seneca wasn't available anymore as he had severed his relationship with the college.
He encouraged her to enrol in an expensive private college, but instead Kaur applied and was accepted at Norquest College in Edmonton.
At first, it was difficult to adjust to a new country, but eventually she found a job as a cashier, Kaur said.
She has friends, and in June 2020 graduated from Norquest with a diploma in business administration management.
"I don't get any discrimination from this country. Like, I feel as a normal person," Kaur said.
Her plan to stay in Canada long term was going according to plan until she applied for permanent residency.
On May 25, 2021, a Canada Border Services Agency employee told her the Seneca College letter was fraudulent.
Kaur said she was shocked by the revelation. She and her family didn't know much about the immigration process and had trusted the agent.
Hiring immigration agents is a common practice for people in her community who hope to move abroad, she said.
Predatory immigration agents taking advantage of people hoping to come to or stay in Canada is common, says Marco Luciano, director of Migrante Alberta.
"It's a billion dollar industry. These consultants or third parties have really taken advantage of this industry of migration," he said.
"The bottom line is everybody has to do their research prior to letting an immigration consultant or a recruiter handle their documents," he said.
Luciano said the recent establishment of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants has helped bring more oversight to the issue, but he said much more needs to be done.
Story found credible
Kaur made her case at a hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on Jan. 19, but the decision-maker overseeing the hearing sided with the lawyer for the federal minister of public safety and issued an exclusion order.
Once she leaves, Kaur will not be allowed to return to Canada for five years.
"I do find that her testimony was credible; there's nothing in her testimony that would suggest to me that she didn't genuinely believe she was admitted to Seneca College," the decision-maker said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
But as an adult who had managed to make her way to Canada in the first place, Kaur should have taken steps to verify her status at Seneca herself, the decision said.
"In fact, in my view, it would be reasonable for a student to reach out to their school upon admission instead of relying completely on an immigration consultant."
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada spokespeople confirmed that Kaur is facing an exclusion order, but declined a request for an interview.
Uphill legal battle
Kaur's lawyer has applied for leave to seek a judicial review to have the order overturned.
Sidhu said his client faces an uphill battle legally.
"It is very unreasonable for the decision-maker to expect a disabled woman from rural India who never had a phone, who never had a bank account, who was never left to her house without the supervision of her parents — she never had access to any sort of internet — to expect her to contact the college authorities herself and find out if her letter of acceptance is real or not," he said.
Upon discovering the letter was fake, Kaur asked her father to report the agent to police in India.
Documents from the High Court of Punjab and Haryana which Sidhu provided to CBC show the agent is under investigation for the fraudulent letter and taking money from Kaur's family.
The agent is out of jail despite having his bail revoked and has been contacting Kaur's family and threatening them, Kaur and Sidhu said.
He is also warning Kaur against returning to India and testifying, she said.
"I don't think . . . police are going to save me from that person."
Sidhu plans to file a second application seeking to allow Kaur to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Kaur is not only frightened about returning to India, she's worried about losing what Canada has given her.
"I can do my stuff [on] my own here," she said. "I don't want to be dependent on others."
How does a study permit work? Don't they actually verify before granting someone a study permit?
So anyone can just forge a college acceptance letter and board a flight and be granted a study permit? What kind of stupid system is that?
I mean, at one hand they want to restrict illegals and on the other hand they operate in the dumbest ways possible.
Don't they have a system where one registers on the IRCC website where they upload their documents and then they are either accepted or rejected? Isn't that what Chinook is for?