AlbertaAINP said:
Lately, I see a lot of people having the same concern. In this economy it is quite common. I think AINP should have kept the old rule of maintaining H1B at the time of applying and not until the time of final decision. They should have seen this coming. Common, then why they even target H1B ?
If everything is going fine for someone In USA with job then why would they even consider AINP in the first place unless they are close to completing 6 years of H1B or having trouble with Green Card.
How many of you who have plenty of time left in your H1B and have a job really want to take this path ?
This may be become another waste of time like where lot of people got their PR card in Skilled category and did not move to Canada because everything was alright for them in US.
Agree with you completely....! For some reason it feels like every day one of us sends them a question .... Like ummmm... what if my H1-b expires before decision? Do I need to send FBI report and PCC report? What if my I-94 is expired? What if I want to move somewhere else after I get to Alberta? Can I work at pizza hut delivering pizza even though I am applying under NOC 2171or 21108 whatever? How much money in my account there should be? My wife is on H4 here can she work over there? I have been on the bench for last 6 months and my company wouldn't give me any paystubs? Do I really need to send a letter from my company because I do not want them to know .........GOSH Man what the Frack!! And for each one of these questions they make a new rule and make things more complicated. For example adding that new part in the application where new applicants have to demonstrate your willingness to populate Alberta only, or where they have rejected a couple of ppl here based on the fact that job description was not written exactly the way they want.... In the beginning it was a simple process i.e. if you have worked on H1-B for 1 year in the US, then you are more than welcome to apply and immigrate to Alberta.... Fill out the application which was simple enough and that's it..........!
On top of that, administration at the AINP office comes up with these creative ideas to give us all such a hard time coming over there.... I mean we are all H1-Bs and there is a huge chance that we have got some extraordinary skills, USCIS didn't just picked us up in some random lottery, we did go through some exhaustive paper work and credential verification and are contributing in the betterment of the worse economy and paying taxes rather than collecting unemployment checks like over 2.5 million other Americans are....
OK maybe I'd feel a little better now... I just had to say things didn't mean to offend anyone though ... I know we all are worried about unexpected circumstances these days and want to secure our futures.