annakrystyna13 said:
I have a bad feeling that all these petitions won't change anything. I was really frustrated waiting for my application be approved, and the processing times just kept increasing. Unfortunately, Express Entry is now their priority. And to be honest, I am not surprised. Canada needs skilled and educated immigrants, who are fluent in English. In the Family Class they have no guarantee that the sponsored person has all those qualities. It's discrimination but it's the truth. Also, they probably treat all applicants as liers who want to cheat their way into Canada. And I don't blame them. There are enough fake marriages for them to assume that. It's also important to remember that immigration to Canada is not our RIGHT, it's a PRIVILEGE, and as much as I understand everyone's frustration, they can do whatever they want. Just be patient.
And to those applicants who are getting ready to submit an application, remember that it is your responsibility to convince the officer that your marriage is genuine. Also, provide all supporting documents right away, including medical and police certificates. It's the one thing you can do to make sure your application goes smoothly....
Petitions won't change anything. We're used to slow unresponsive, ineffective, government programs in Canada and that's just how it is.
Doesn't matter how much you pay versus what you get, it's all socialized such that the government's agenda is the only one that matters.
If Canada decides that it wants more refugees this year, people who have been waiting a year or two will just have to wait longer, because Canada will just take that resource that's already paid for and since it's in CIC's basket will shuffle it over.
Doesn't matter that EE is a different program, doesn't matter that CIC is just too stubborn and union-centric to simply get more workers, that's what's supposedly going to benefit our economy the most (because we all know that people starting families is what kills the economy, right?). No problem, just take those fees and budgets allocated to Family Class PRs and shuffle that over to EE. Nooo, don't charge a bit extra for EE and adjust your workforce so you can actually do it, why bother keeping to prior commitments when you're the government and you can do whatever you want.
Regarding the "Right vs Privilege" bit, don't even start that.
Once I pay the fees, invest years of my life, and subscribe to some kind of worthless CIC promise or directive, it suddenly becomes my right that the clowns processing my application stick to their promises made at the beginning. After I pay my fees and subscribe to a level or torture, don't give me triple the torture.
Don't let me buy a plane ticket, make me wait at the airport, then tell me I have to ride a bike because more valuable people have already boarded.
If they want to make this prejudice based upon language skills or net income, then go ahead and do it,
officially.
Don't just mess around for years at a time and push people already in the system around like they're animals.
If they honestly only care about importing skilled labor then don't let skilled workers immigrate if they have a spouse. Or don't allow anyone with children.
Or if families of skilled laborers is OK, then why not just disallow any would-be sponsors who don't have a high enough net income, don't pay enough taxes, or don't have the right degrees?
Maybe disallow anyone who isn't a home-owner. Better yet, make sure they own a car too.
Disallow sponsors who are the wrong first-language, working the wrong job, on disability, didn't work full-time for 3 years prior to attempting to sponsor.
Only allow family-class PR from 1st World Nations, or maybe only from nations with a higher GDP than Canada.
Disallow sponsorship from non-citizens.
Disallow sponsorship from non-10-year-citizens.
Does that sound stupid? That's because it IS stupid.
If I as a Canadian can't earn the right to my spouse showing up in a timely manner, then why can some non-Canadian from some other country *earn* the right to express entry?
If some software engineer from Ireland can say "hey look at all my software engineering skills, let me in within 2 weeks" why can't a Canadian say "hey look at me, I'm a Nuclear Power Generation Engineer, I pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes every year to my useless government, let my husband from France come to Canada so we can have a family so we can buy more houses, cars, diapers, and junk in Canada instead of France, process our application within 400 years please.
Do you know how many marriages are fake? Fewer than you think, since you've thought to mention it.
How many skilled, educated, Canadians are having their family plans shafted because their spouse isn't skilled as well?
If Canada desperately wants to attract talent maybe they should work on trying to keep the talent they already have, instead of making them want to cross the border in the other direction.
There are *plenty* of immigrants from 1st World Nations.
