mdc said:
May nagsabi sa akin na friend from New York at nagwowork sa Canadian Consulate don na naging busy daw sila last 2012 month of sept till nov, but di na mention kung ano yun.Kaya matagal ang proseso nong mga month na yun.At sinabi ko sa kanya na ganon katagal ang paghihintay natin, so sana naman magiging ok na lahat.
I think may nabasa po ako kaya naging busy kasi nagsara ang office sa Buffalo nung 2012. Meron pa ngang post protest na sa Ottawa ayon kay AW2011 nagpost sya ng link about dun sa news 2 days ago tungkol naman sa Residency ng mga Immigrants meaning di lang po sa CEM ang matagal dito rin po pala at sa iba pa :
Immigrants protest residency delays in Canada
(AFP) – 2 days ago
OTTAWA — Thousands of immigrants on Tuesday pressed Canada's government to fast-track their permanent residency applications, saying undue delays have put their lives on hold for years.
They came to Canada from France, Italy, Morocco and elsewhere, paid thousands of dollars in fees and filled out lengthy forms.
And now, more than two years on, their files have still not been processed, leaving many unable to work legally, without health insurance and with no other option than to leave Canada.
An opposition lawmaker from the New Democratic Party, Jinny Sims, blamed the backlog on cuts at the immigration ministry announced last year, including 300 layoffs and the closure of 19 regional and foreign offices.
"This Conservative (government) boondoggle transformed the Canadian dream for thousands of people into a total nightmare," she told a press conference in Ottawa.
She said the migrants' files were "callously forgotten -- with lives put on hold and turned upside down."
Michelle Dorion, spokeswoman for the largest single group of 10,000 migrants known as the "Buffalo Forgotten," after the New York consulate where they applied for residency, told AFP as many as half of them may have already left Canada.
One woman in the group, whose temporary work permit expired, claimed she was forced to turn down an engineering job offer in Montreal to return to Casablanca to live with her parents at age 35, Dorion said.
"The Buffalo Forgotten have 10,000 similar personal stories to share with Canadians," Dorion said, pointing to severe anxieties, broken relationships and other stresses caused by the delays.
The government, she said, told her that about 15 percent of the Buffalo files have been processed since last May, and promised to process the rest by September 2013. But Dorian remains skeptical.
A ministry spokeswoman reaffirmed the target date in an email to AFP, saying "most of the files that were transferred from Buffalo to the Ottawa processing office will be completed by summer 2013."
She also said that a reorganization of its North American processing network will lead to "better results."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gWxGbYxcCqytRvSERc4gL58EULpw?docId=CNG.712bac5a2e36c5ab3750c50d4058c01b.441
Qouted by : AW2011