MP's influence in Getting PR

[8Hannah8]

why settle for PR, go for Honorary Canadian citizenship!

 

[nope]

Precisely the point of my last post: the OP is NOT a constituent, he's a foreign national. Constituent implies you're eligible to vote and have a voice in the government. Perhaps you need a dictionary.

No, he does not. The riding where he lives has an MP. Not the OP himself. As far as the OP is concerned this is a foreign government and its officials have no obligation whatsoever to look out for his interests.

Another "friend of mine" story, which is just today's version of "once upon a time" 19th century fairy tales from a supernatural world. I have yet to see any of these stories confirmed first-hand by the original source.

That's what makes these tales just a story, and nothing more than that. People who tell them don't know all the facts about the original source (if such a person was ever real in the first place). Instead, the story only has the wishful thinking the audience wants to hear.

I don't know of any back door to qualifying for US immigration or citizenship benefits. I do know that when a US Senator feels a foreigner should get PR outside of the usual legal paths, then that Senator would have to introduce a bill in Congress that would allow the government to grant PR to this person.

These are called "private relief" bills, i.e. bills for the benefit of just one specific person or group of people. However, even for this there are rules. A private relief bill can only be introduced if the sponsoring Senator can demonstrate to the Senate that granting the foreigner PR is in the national interest. The Senator would have to specify what the national interest is and would have to convince the Senate as a whole to pass the bill. These bills are small and are usually attached to larger bills but the national interest requirement is there.

I suppose any country would have some way to grant a foreigner a benefit if it's in the national interest. I'm dying to see what specific national interest would be served by granting the OP what he wants outside of the regular channels. That is, what interest would be served that isn't normally served by others in the same circumstances as the OP?

If you can't answer that, then it's the same as always: "I want what I want , and I want it now. Damn everything and everybody else."

And that is, ... to put it mildly, a large pile of insult.

In my experience, people who don't believe or trust other people do so based on their own characters. Since the back-door process that I described is, de facto, not official or defined, there isn't going to be any evidence for it, beyond what I say. You can believe that or not, based on your estimation of the trustworthiness of the world and the people in it.

Quibbling about the word 'my' MP is frankly, silly. It's an accustomed usage.

If you're insulted by someone asking on an Internet forum if an MP can help them qualify for immigration, then you have serious problems. Good luck with them!

 

[marcus66502]

In my experience, people who don't believe or trust other people do so based on their own characters. Since the back-door process that I described is, de facto, not official or defined, there isn't going to be any evidence for it, beyond what I say. You can believe that or not, based on your estimation of the trustworthiness of the world and the people in it.

Quibbling about the word 'my' MP is frankly, silly. It's an accustomed usage.

If you're insulted by someone asking on an Internet forum if an MP can help them qualify for immigration, then you have serious problems. Good luck with them!

Yes, I do have a problem with those who demand a special way that isn't available to everybody else, because that is basically saying that they are special and above everyone else. I definitely have a problem with that and if this country is still fair as it claims to be, then this person's plea should be completely ignored as junk from a douchebag with delusions of personal grandeur.

With regards to your "friend of mine" story, it's not a matter of whether I believe it or not. My point is you can't rely on anecdotal stories to plan any personal strategy in life. That's just the point of officialdom. If a policy is not official, it does not exist. If you rely on information that cannot be confirmed, you do so at your own risk and should be prepared for the worst.

What the OP is asking for is not an insult to me. It's an insult to all the other hopeful souls wanting the same thing. If I was one of them, I'd be angry as hell that someone has the audacity to say out in public that they're above everyone else. Sorry buddy but unless you don't breathe oxygen, you're the same mortal human as the other six or seven billion on this planet. Nothing special about you whatsoever, and I haven't heard anything from you so far other than the same old "I want what I want, I want it now, and to hell with everyone else."

 

[Deep6644]

Mps office can just do nothing. Only they have the right to call cic if the processing time has overlapped. Or if they are seriously interested to help you, they can ask them to reconsider if the file was rejected as it happened in my case. More than that, you can expect nothing.

Can you please tel what your MP did...is your visa rejected earlier.and then your MP reverted that decision and granted your visa??

 

[navinball]

old thread but you guys are all wrong. MP's can facilitate faster visa processing and can demand reversal of visa decisions, in india.

 

[SithLord]

Wow people at 447 were not able to get ITA back then