Bisdak for Canada!!!!

[marco-cbu]

para sa tanan mga bisdak, sa mga destination alberta.
check ninyo sa www.edmonton.ca nga website sa job section naay daghan trabaho sa musipyo ug uban pang department. klase-klase ang ilang gi pangita.. ang ato nalang problema unsaon pag sulod.

 

[isyisy]

para sa tanan mga bisdak, sa mga destination alberta.
check ninyo sa www.edmonton.ca nga website sa job section naay daghan trabaho sa musipyo ug uban pang department. klase-klase ang ilang gi pangita.. ang ato nalang problema unsaon pag sulod.

@marco-cbu: yes, that's true daghan sila permi work gi pangita, and dali ra pud maka apply...

one of the best employers sa Alberta ang mismong City of Edmonton. sa ilang City Hall once mu ari namo, you can just go inside (for as long as open ang door) then once you enter the main entrance, on your left is a Newcomers Welcome counter... maka kita ka diri ug taw nga mu welcome which can give you enough information sa city... booklets, pamplets and guides.

on the right part of the main entrance is a bulletin board ug mga clear books of current job listing... then sa kilid sa table duna white nga papel nga mu sulat ka sa ilang application forms, perma for consent then i attach nimo ang imong resume. then duna sila stapler, para staple-lan nimo... then ihulog dayon dropbox ang tanan nga papel. Several times kuha-on na nila from the dropbox, then mag e-mail dayon sila nimo.

Organize kaayo ilang system nga to the point maka hibaw ka if na screen na ka nila for the job and waiting nalang ka sa interview...

personal experience, na lista ko sa interview ana in two job openings but wala ko mu attend sa interview kay nadawat naman ko ug trabaho adto..

Nice to nga experience.


@maharlika: Welcome to Canada!!! and welcome to Edmonton!

im pretty sure ga enjoy na jud mo diri kay init init na gamay... hina-ot ayo ayo ra mo sa imo family karon... sugat sugat lang nya ta sa dalan ani! hehehe.

@Rene: kaw na nya sunod mu ari!

 

[sheila-may]

hi taga cebu ko, molarga ko padung canada karun tuesday na..xcited heheheheh...pero la ko idea asako e process connecting man gud ako flight vanciuver-montreal. ako entry temporary work. unsa ipanguta sa mga immigration officer? naako fil-up pan ana nga form? pls tabangi ko. thanks alot

 

[Rene_8000]

hi taga cebu ko, molarga ko padung canada karun tuesday na..xcited heheheheh...pero la ko idea asako e process connecting man gud ako flight vanciuver-montreal. ako entry temporary work. unsa ipanguta sa mga immigration officer? naako fil-up pan ana nga form? pls tabangi ko. thanks alot

@isy... Yes hopefully mag abot mi 3rd week of June. Naa unta ko favor iask nimo ako Lang I-pm.

 

[marco-cbu]

@isyisy,
salamat sa mga information, sa imong tan-aw mas maayo bah ang government jobs or private jobs in long term benifits and jobs security.
sa ato-a man gud sa pinas pag musipyo trabaho nya ma pildi sa election ang mayor ma terminate pud ka. heheh-

@ rene,
bay, busy na gyud ka ug pangan-dam para sa byahe.

 

[maharlika]

isysy,

tnx for the info and welcoming us...hehehe, wala pa jud me initi isy, gakurog jud me sa katugnaw despite the fact nga init na jud daw ni...re: employment, mosulay pod me ana, sapagka karon nga wala pa me maka stay sa apartment, medyo dili pa me kalihok lihok ug maau ky dependent pa me sa amo friend dri, sa millet pa jud, layo jud cya from the city ug kay puti man gud ang hubby sa ako friend, so mataha jud me ky lain man gud cla culture, unlike sa atoa...nag off amo friend for two days aron makuyugan me sa city to file the needed papers ug karon stay put sa me sa balay...hayyyyy, pero ok lang at least unang dapat buhaton are done...

marco and rene,

nindot jud dri oi, dili jud ta magamahay pero bahin sa apartment or house na rentahan, mas maau jud nga kamo mismo ang molantaw sa place, naa daghan dri pero naay poy mga daan na kaau and gubaon na, aron makapili jud mo sa inyo gusto ug presyo...

 

[isyisy]

isysy,

tnx for the info and welcoming us...hehehe, wala pa jud me initi isy, gakurog jud me sa katugnaw despite the fact nga init na jud daw ni...re: employment, mosulay pod me ana, sapagka karon nga wala pa me maka stay sa apartment, medyo dili pa me kalihok lihok ug maau ky dependent pa me sa amo friend dri, sa millet pa jud, layo jud cya from the city ug kay puti man gud ang hubby sa ako friend, so mataha jud me ky lain man gud cla culture, unlike sa atoa...nag off amo friend for two days aron makuyugan me sa city to file the needed papers ug karon stay put sa me sa balay...hayyyyy, pero ok lang at least unang dapat buhaton are done...

marco and rene,

nindot jud dri oi, dili jud ta magamahay pero bahin sa apartment or house na rentahan, mas maau jud nga kamo mismo ang molantaw sa place, naa daghan dri pero naay poy mga daan na kaau and gubaon na, aron makapili jud mo sa inyo gusto ug presyo...

Medyo layo jud nang place ninyo karon. try pud ninyo ug lakaw lakaw nga kamo lang para ngita ug apartment and work...

dali ra man mangita kay daghan man vacancy.

How I wish I can help you view some apartments, but its just crazy this week karon sa office. just msg me your blackberry id if naa or your number para mag txt txt nya ta.

 

[hanzen]

Speaking notes
Speaking notes for the Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P. Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism at the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration

Ottawa, Ontario, February 17, 2011

As delivered

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to be here today to present to the committee my department’s Supplementary Estimates (C) for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. I think that you have met all the senior officials here with me today.

Mr. Chairman, in 2010, Canada welcomed the highest number of immigrants in 57 years – 281,000 permanent residents. We did so by focussing on economic immigrants who can work, invest, create wealth and contribute to our prosperity. Now, within the economic category, we will continue to balance admissions between federal skilled workers – who are now doing increasingly well financially, according to some recent research we’ve done – with provincial nominees who are helping to fill labour market gaps, while ensuring a better distribution of newcomers across Canada.

In the future, we must select those immigrants who are most likely to succeed in the Canadian economy. To this end, today we are launching cross-country and online consultations on proposed changes to the Federal Skilled Worker Points system. We want advice from the public and, indeed, from you parliamentarians on how we can improve the points grid as a way of selecting those workers who will best integrate and contribute to our prosperity.

While we welcomed more economic immigrants last year, we also upheld our commitment to family reunification and to refugees. We will continue to so in the future. In 2011, we plan to receive even more newcomers through family reunification and more refugees than we did last year. I repeat: in 2011, we plan to receive more family class immigrants than we did in 2010. That’s not a cut in family class, as some have inaccurately suggested. Rather, it’s an increase.

Within the family class, we’ve opted to put wives, husbands and children first. That reflects the priority of immigrants, of Canadians and, indeed, of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. As such, we have slightly decreased the projected admissions range for parents and grandparents, in order to allow for an increase in the number of spouses and children admitted this year. That means more dads, more moms and more kids being reunited with their loved ones than in the past. That’s, after all, the whole idea behind our policy of family reunification which, I believe, is the most generous in the world amongst immigrant-receiving countries.

In the past few days, there have been a number of myths and mistruths recklessly thrown around on the issue of family class immigration. I’d like to give this committee the facts and some broader perspective on just how generous Canada’s immigration policy is to families. We’ve distributed to you some charts and tables. This table that you have in front of you shows that there are two primary categories of family class immigrants. One is called Family Class 1.This is the highest priority under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; they are spouses and dependent children.

The key thing here, Mr. Chair, is the planning range which we use every year to plan, and which we publish in our Annual Report to Parliament. For Family Class 1 last year – spouses and children – the planning range was between 42 and 45 thousand. We actually landed a little under 44,000. This year, we are increasing – I repeat increasing – the planning range for spouses and children – that’s the priority category, to between 45,500 and 48,000.

Now, in order to accommodate that increase in spouses and children, we’ve had to make a modest reduction in the lower priority category under the Act, which is Family Class 4, parents and grandparents. Last year, the planning range was 15 to 18 thousand. This year, the planning range is 13,000 to 17,500. The total family class that we projected in our planning range for last year was between 57 and 63 thousand, and for this year it’s between 58,500 and 65,500.

This chart gives you a perspective on the two different categories. Green represents spouses and children, and blue represents parents and grandparents. What you can see here, is that we always have more – many more – spouses and children than parents and grandparents, and the numbers are about consistent every year. You’ll also notice that our planning range, if we come in midway between our planning range this year, it will actually exceed the average over the past decade in terms of family class and, most importantly, it will be going up, as you can see, from 2010 to 2011.

There’s another element I think that a lot of people lose track of. While we bring in people through these two categories, in fact, the majority of people who arrive in Canada on a given year under the economic categories are actually not principal applicants – those we assess according to their human capital under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, the Canadian Experience Class, Provincial Nominee, the Quebec Skilled Worker Program – but they are in fact dependants....the spouses and children of principal applicants.

Here, you’ll see families as a percentage of total immigrant admissions. The green bar represents principal applicants. These are typically the heads of households. In some cases, they might be a successful asylum claimant who has family members attached to his application. The purple bars represent family members. As you can see, the ratio is about two-to-one. On average, 65 percent of immigrants coming to Canada are actually family members. It’s kind of extraordinary, if you see it in proportion. You’ll see that the numbers are pretty consistent over the past 17 years.

Now, here you’ll see the same thing expressed in terms of absolute numbers. Last year, 2010, was the largest number for intake of immigrants in 57 years overall at 281,000 –180,000 of which were family members, either family class or arriving with the principal applicants who represented 101,000. You can see that, in fact, last year was the largest intake for family members in our immigration system in 30 years.

The point here is that there’s a lot of immigration policy experts criticizing Canada, saying that we don’t put enough weight on human capital, on potential workers and taxpayers, and there’s some people that say we put too much emphasis on family. When I hear some critics saying that we’re actually cutting and slashing family class, I think, instead of falling for that kind of demagoguery, we need to actually look at the numbers and put all of this in perspective.

Now, onto the second issue I’d like briefly to address, Mr. Chairman, which relates to settlement funding. We believe it’s important to invest in the success of newcomers so they can realize their potential, and that’s why our government cut the right of landing fee in half. That has saved nearly $2,000 for the average family of four with two children over the age of 18. It has saved over $300 million for immigrant families since 2006.

That’s in addition to our decision to triple the federal investment in settlement services. Over the past five years, that represents an incremental investment of $1.4 billion that was not being invested in things like free language classes and other settlement services.

We have to make sure that those funds are going to where the immigrants are, and immigrant settlement patterns change. In fact, what we see is, for example, fewer immigrants are going to Ontario and Toronto, in particular, and more are going to the Prairie provinces and the Atlantic provinces. So we’ve developed along – in consultation with the provinces – a new settlement funding allocation formula based on objective criteria, to ensure that all newcomers across Canada benefit from similar levels of service. This has meant reducing funding levels in three provinces, while increasing them in seven provinces and the three territories.

For example, we have seen funding for Ontario more than triple since 2005, from $111 million to $390 million while, at the same time, the number of newcomers choosing to live in Ontario has fallen by 24 percent, from 141,000 to 106,000. So that’s more and more money for fewer and fewer immigrants. On the flip side, some provinces, like Saskatchewan, have seen more than a tripling of the number of immigrants and the settlement funding increases have not been able to keep pace.

What we have is a new formula that will seek to equalize things over the next couple of years. It will result in increased settlement funding for Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and Quebec will also have an increase under its own Canada-Quebec Accord in the automatic escalator within it.

This new formula will equalize funding at about $3,000 per immigrant whereas, in Ontario, immigrants are now receiving about $3,500 per immigrant as opposed to say for $2,900 per immigrant in Saskatchewan. That’s just not fair. We need fairness in settlement funding. That’s why we’ve made these changes.

Some would say, ‘why not just increase the overall budget to equalize the funding, rather than reallocating it away from the over-funded areas?’ There’s three very simple reasons. One, because we’ve already increased the settlement budget by 300 percent. Secondly, this funding increase has not been matched by uptake in the number of clients. One estimate I’ve seen says there’s been an increase in update of about 31 percent, notwithstanding a funding increase of 300 percent. And, thirdly, that would be an unjustifiable expense of, I estimate, something in the range of an additional $50 million tax dollars annually – money which we, quite frankly, don’t have and we certainly can’t reallocate from within our department. It would mean cutting immigration levels by re-profiling money from our A base that deals with actual immigration processing.

Now, even within Ontario, there have been changes in settlement patterns. Fewer newcomers are arriving in Toronto, and a lot more, for example, are going to York Region. So Toronto will get a relatively modest reduction in funding. York will get a huge increase in settlement funding, in the range of 43 percent.

Now one last point, Mr. Chairman. There’s been some coverage about some of the settlement provider organizations with whom we will not be continuing our contribution agreements. We did a Call for Proposals. We received hundreds of proposals. Our public servants assessed them objectively. We also looked at past performance and efficiency. We looked at, as you can see in these maps, on the left there, and you have these, that’s the number of settlement provider organizations in Toronto proper before – in about 2005. Here, on the right, you see the settlement provider organizations located in Toronto this year, after these reallocations are done. So, you’ll see how much more coverage there is and, in point of fact, there is some duplication. We don’t want to waste tax dollars with duplication, so there has to be some rationalization.

Having said that, of the about 250 organizations we’ve been funding, over 80 percent will continue in Ontario to receive a contribution agreement as partners with us. We have not continued to fund about 37 because they didn’t meet the objectives. But there will be 30 new settlement provider organizations with whom we will partner, and they represent innovation and new ideas which we think is a positive thing.

One of the things we’re trying to do, this is a good point, is bring more programs together in the same place. We’re working on something called Local Immigration Partnerships, LIPS, where we work with the municipalities and big groups like the United Way. We try to get better coordination so, instead of dozens of little micro- organizations providing services in their own little silos, we’re trying to have a more rational approach to services in a particular region.

The bottom line is simply this: after these changes are all said and done, there will be only a slight reduction in the number of service provider organizations in Toronto and there will be no service gaps. Folks who come to Canada need free language training and they need some advice on how to get integrated. All of those services will continue to be available. I would argue, and I believe our department believes, that they’ll actually be more efficiently allocated both within Toronto proper and across the broader GTA, Ontario and, certainly, on a national level. I think, actually, that the settlement changes are good news and we’d certainly look forward to any of your questions that you may have.

Thank you

 

[maharlika]

isysy,

thanks...ugma me balhin sa apartment nga g sublet sa amo friend...we are indeed thankful that they tried so much to make us comfortable and adjust our transition but dili jud kalikayan nga magmingaw me cguro dis is part of transition, pag makabalhin na me and on our own na maka move around na me perhaps dayon maka work, then perhaps we'll feel better...hayyy, nahupas na btaw ang excitement ug karon ako hubby who is apprehensive daan to come here is getting more apprehensive...

i'll pm u my number..

 

[hanzen]

Hanzen, akong wife jud ang active dire sa forum. ;D

ang principal applicant kay akong wife pero ako ga sigig kuntingting dri hehe

 

[maharlika]

ang principal applicant kay akong wife pero ako ga sigig kuntingting dri hehe

hanzen,

that is very good, at least u supported ur wife ky di jud lalim kung ang hubby dili supportive, dat is my personal experience...since the beginning in the application, ako hubby is atras abante ky mawili cya sa iya life sa pinas...until now, and the more nga nakabalo btaw cya sa pressures nganhi, murag nanalaw na jud ug samot....hayyyyy, unsaon kaha nko pagtambag ni ako bana oi, just a while ago, ingon jud cya nga mouli na lang kuno cya after 6 mos...ug murag gikusi ako dughan

i understand the fears of my hubby...

ampo lang jud ko ani nga unta mahayagan iya huna2....

 

[hanzen]

hanzen,

that is very good, at least u supported ur wife ky di jud lalim kung ang hubby dili supportive, dat is my personal experience...since the beginning in the application, ako hubby is atras abante ky mawili cya sa iya life sa pinas...until now, and the more nga nakabalo btaw cya sa pressures nganhi, murag nanalaw na jud ug samot....hayyyyy, unsaon kaha nko pagtambag ni ako bana oi, just a while ago, ingon jud cya nga mouli na lang kuno cya after 6 mos...ug murag gikusi ako dughan

i understand the fears of my hubby...

ampo lang jud ko ani nga unta mahayagan iya huna2....

maharlika, nabali naman nuon ta. hehehe sus ang sugod ray lisud dra pag maka plastar namo mayo, dli namo nahan mag dugay dinhi kun mu bakasyon mo. ako asawa way paki sa status, hulat lang daw mi. nia ako kay nahan nakayo mu sibat. Ayaw ka guol jud kay kun hayahay dri mas ma realized na ninyo kadugayan mas hayahay dra ug secured kayo. ok raman pod dri kay there's no place like home pero there's a much better place (home) jud, dli lang para atoa kun dli para sa future sa atong mga anak ug nxt generation.

perting maayo ha nako mu tambag oi! wala pa gali amo MR saun nalang... wala pagani pod mi ka tikang ug sure na. hahaha...

Cge kog ampo run nga mu abot na amo MR ...

 

[marco-cbu]

@maharlika,
Sakto na si Hanzen, ana gyud na basta mag sugod labi na first time ninyo nga malayo sa Pinas.
Mao nay period of ajustments, mao pud na akong gi bati sa una nga nag work ko abroad few weeks and months. Mingaw kaayo, maayong i hilak kada adlaw.. heheh
ma overcome rana, once maka adjust namo, kong mo uli mo sa Pinas dili mo ganahan mag dugay sa iyong bakasyon. Makita na nimo ang difference unsa ka organize,ka limpyo, ug kanindot sa lugar. wala nay corruption.. hehe.

 

[Rene_8000]

hanzen,

that is very good, at least u supported ur wife ky di jud lalim kung ang hubby dili supportive, dat is my personal experience...since the beginning in the application, ako hubby is atras abante ky mawili cya sa iya life sa pinas...until now, and the more nga nakabalo btaw cya sa pressures nganhi, murag nanalaw na jud ug samot....hayyyyy, unsaon kaha nko pagtambag ni ako bana oi, just a while ago, ingon jud cya nga mouli na lang kuno cya after 6 mos...ug murag gikusi ako dughan

i understand the fears of my hubby...

ampo lang jud ko ani nga unta mahayagan iya huna2....




@maharlika &isyisy... Naabot na jud ang passports namo praise the lord... Sa June 7 molupad mi padulong Cebu to attend pdos... Ok ra man ang attendance sa Cebu maharlika no? Murag better than Manila Kay gamay raman naga pdos sa Cebu. Sa June 19 nami padulong Edmonton.

I hope your husband will find comfort in your new found home in Canada coz our children have better future there. See you guys soon...

 

[cai84]

congrats Rene_8000!!!