CIC scrapping the backlog starting to look a reality...

[Cappuccino]

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2012/2012-03-30a.asp

Under proposed legislation, CIC will close the files of FSW applicants who applied before February 27, 2008, and for whom an immigration officer has not made a decision based on selection criteria by March 29, 2012. This is expected to affect around 280,000 applicants, including their dependants. CIC will begin the process of returning the full amount of fees paid to the Department by these affected FSW applicants. For those who have passed the selection criteria stage – approximately 20,000 people – CIC will continue processing their applications until they are approved for entry into Canada or not.


This is no longer a rumour but is on the official CIC website.

This is at the very least extremely unfair on those applicants who have been waiting 4,5,6,7,8 years patiently to be fairly processed, and are now having that taken away from them.

This could also have very serious legal ramifications IMO if they don't dot their i's and cross their t's when they legislate this!!

Wayne.

 

[Cappuccino]

Sorry I have now just noticed someone has already posted a thread on this.

My apologies for the duplicate thread, admin pls delete this one (it won't let me delete my own thread).

Thanks.
Wayne.

 

[ramyfathalla]

ok guys we did a sample for our compaint which we have to send to every person you think could help us in this issue

you don't need to copy and paste exactly if you want to add or edit some phrases it will be good.

I am writing to you this letter to complain and ask for help .I am among the thousands of oppressed people who applied for emigration as a FSW by 2008 and will destroy their lives and their dreams in the case of approval of the closure of their files in this unfair step.

In the beginning, the most important reasons for our choice of immigration to Canada is our belief as a country dominated by the values ​​of justice, equality and a human rights. and we sacrificed with a lot of effort and money and time in order to prepare our files, hoping to start a new life and future for us and for our children in Canada, and we accept to wait until completion of the thousands of files, which made for Migration after us years as if we were punished on the speed of our sponsorship immigration applications and then be surprised, after waiting for more than 6 years of the Government's decision to slash our files without the slightest sense of responsibility for the destruction of the lives of thousands of families by this unfair decision , which reflects definitely the absence of respecting our humanity and our rights of dealing with our files equally like others, and without respect to the agreement between us and the government ,I ask you to imagine how much damage the physical and psychological effect on us and our families from the destruction of our lives and the loss of many opportunities and effort and years waiting for the start of our lives in Canada, what can make up all of that ?and is it required from us to start again after the loss of all these years ? the law may pass by the strong majority in the government, but how to pass from the punishment of God for the injustice and the destruction of the lives of these families, I hope you can help us in the delivery of our voices to all shades of Canadian society and I am sure that such a decision gives voice about the value and harm the reputation of Canada's more than good and we are ready to provide any additional guarantees or wait until the processing our files until 2017, but please do not damage our lives and the lives of our children by this tough and unfair decision.
and here are the Name of all parliament's member click on its name and find the contact e-mail and send it.

http://www.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParli...Period=current

 

[harry_aussie]

Dear Ramyfathalla,

I apologize for being blunt, in case you send this letter they won't bother reading it after few lines. Your letter is totally mixed up. I am not good in writing english myself, so i suggest you to get the letter written by someone good in writing. I commend your efforts regarding the matter.

 

[ramyfathalla]

Thank you brother for advising me but actually I said this is a sample for what we want to say

hope to you all the best

Dear Ramyfathalla,

I apologize for being blunt, in case you send this letter they won't bother reading it after few lines. Your letter is totally mixed up. I am not good in writing english myself, so i suggest you to get the letter written by someone good in writing. I commend your efforts regarding the matter.

 

[gp1179]

The article is referenced for the applicants of 2008 not the new.
right?

 

[nasj]

I'm afraid to effect all Applicants and have not had a decision made by an immigration officer based on selection criteria by March 29, 2012.

 

[cocosyr]

There's no consistency. A major change almost every year. No compassion for people of other nationality. It doesn't even care for its citizens. It's like a revolving door. Come in and get out. In and out. In and out. On the path to a third world country like Mexico, selling its sovereignty to the US...

 

[slavasz]

Dear Ramyfathalla,
Nobody told all those applicants to put their lives on hold. If they did it is totally their fault. After 3-4 years they had no clue that it is not going to be any time soon and maybe with introduction of new requirements maybe their applications will be returned as it was done in Australia and New Zealand (even after people did medicals)?
The text of your letter looks more like asking for refuge then FSW. And those are opposite concepts.

 

[grewal]

If a business had huge lineups and long waits for service they would have more staff at more checkouts. That is not the way the government works. The government just lets the lines get longer and longer and the wait times longer and longer. If you complain you are liklely to get your file put at the bottom of the pile. Now the lines and waits are impossibly long the solution is to just tell the people they will not be processed at all. Start over and apply under the new rules.

The Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has said elimination of the backlog is necessary so that the government can focus on new applicants who can fill specific labor gaps. Business needs is the focus and that is all that counts. It used to be that family unification was a strong focus. Now if those already here want to get their parents over as well often the line is so long that parents would have to come to Canada in a casket!



David Chalk a Montreal Lawyer remarks:“These people have had the rug pulled out from underneath them,” “The government of Canada invited people who had certain qualifications to apply, these people invested time energy and hope." Too bad. They must be sacrificed on the alter of service to some of those who support and donate to the Conservative Party.

Citizenship and Immigration complains that it is coping with half a decade of application backlogs. So whose fault is that? Certainly it is not the fault of all the applicants who spent time and money going through all the hoops that are required by immigration.

Source: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11841644-canada-28000-waiting-for-immigration-decisions-will-be-chopped-from-list