The most important issue affecting the life of all International Students in Alberta is the backlog of Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program. Backlog needs to be sorted out in order for AINP to function before it starts accepting new application by JAN 27th 2016.. We have already chosen Alberta as our home, paid huge tuition fees as well as paying taxes. We are not supposed to be the victim of this trap. AINP should have stopped accepting applications if they were unable to clear the backlog.. It is almost impossible for us to immigrate under the 3 year processing time period because Students get only 2-3 year work permit after their studies. The time is now when Government must react. AINP must find a way to deal with this and should fix it as there is no alternative. This program is too important for the future of Alberta growth. International Students who have graduated outside Alberta are mostly the victims. People under this program have been waiting forever just to get the nomination. Most of us will be completing 2-3 years sooner or later and we need to have our files processed before our work permit expires. Looks like our files have just disappeared, with no processing time, no updates on our files (except file numbers). If we call AINP the only answer we get is to go to AINP website and find the details. However, there are no details on processing times. Most applicant's work permits will expire next year. If we do not get nomination sometime sooner our future is in dark. Moreover we are having a lot problem to have positive LMIA as it impossible to get one and most of the employers are not even willing to do this. We totally understand that AINP officers need to see the Labor Market as well but why they accepted files in the category which they do not want to process.
Everyone is going through big stress because we don't know what will happen to our files. We cannot apply under express entry because of high score and International graduates have open work permit not LMIA so we cant reach even near the score in Express entry. It is visible that Alberta Government is being unfair to International Graduates especially those who have graduated outside of ALBERTA.
What we are proposing is a faster processing time for all the applicants and to be treated fairly from year 2016 and have decision to be made before our work permit expires. We even want to have our work permit extended based on the file number and for people whose work permit are going to expire and haven't received any decision from AINP yet. Hope the authorities look into this matter as we have no where to go.
is that good enough?