Timeline for Filipinos submitted pnp-pr applctions at CIO

[gani]

Do you mean Health Insurance aside from the provincial health insurance coverage?

Sir Ragluf,Yes, because for some provinces we can only be eligible for the provincial health insurance after a waiting period of 3 months.

 

[tabs179]

To the ladies who have gone through med exams, it's mandatory ba na one week after the last day of menstrual period bago magpa med exam (urinalysis)?

Advance thanks for the replies...

Oh yes, please enlighten us on this.

 

[pebbles0402]

To the ladies who have gone through med exams, it's mandatory ba na one week after the last day of menstrual period bago magpa med exam (urinalysis)?

Advance thanks for the replies...

Yes and this is so the ladies can provide a more reliable specimen. But this is only if you're currently having your period. If you don't expect your period to come for the next two weeks, no need to wait for it to come and have your med exam done.

Good luck. HTH.

 

[ad123164]

Yes and this is so the ladies can provide a more reliable specimen. But this is only if you're currently having your period. If you don't expect your period to come for the next two weeks, no need to wait for it to come and have your med exam done.

Good luck. HTH.

Thanks pebbles! Just to clarify it... my wife is on the 4th day of her period...usually ends at the 5th day. Therefore, we'll have to wait 8 days more before she submits a urine sample. Tama ba yung pagkakaintindi ko?

 

[warblade25]

Just want share!!!!!!!

New report says immigrants fiscally burden Canada
By Harvey I. Barkin
INQUIRER.net US Bureau
8:48 am | Saturday, October 26th, 2013
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Academic Herbert Grubel. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

TORONTO, Canada – A recently released report by the Fraser Institute implied that immigrants are costing Canadian taxpayers Canadian $20 billion a year.

It also calls for an end to sponsorships of parents and grandparents of immigrants and that Canadian immigration selection require employment by the private sector rather than the government.

At the center of the controversial report is Economics Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University Herbert Grubel, who wrote Canada’s Immigration Selection Policies in which he noted that immigrants who arrived since 1986 earned less and paid less taxes than the benefits they received from the government.

Unlike the US, Canada’s points system of selecting principal immigrants has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. Candidates’ work experience, education, language competency and other factors give them higher points and more likely acceptance for immigration to Canada.

In 2011 about 30 percent of Canada’s immigrants were selected this way. But with spouses and under-age children coming with them, their number rose to about 63 percent.

Grubel recommended stopping the “fiscal drain” by abandoning the points system, replacing it with pre-arranged work contracts as the main criterion to immigrate to Canada.

Early this month, Grubel was quoted by The Philippine Reporter: “Instead of relying on university certificates assessed by civil servants who are in turn instructed by politicians, I would like to see accepted as landed (the Canadian term for citizenship status) immigrants only people who have a job offer from a Canadian employer.”

But the Victoria Filipino-Canadian Association reacted, calling the study exaggerated and partial. They further expressed alarm at the impact the study would bring to Canada’s future immigration policies. The group plans to dispute the study’s conclusion.

The Reporter also quoted Pia Enriquez, director for leadership development of the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation, as saying, “I would really like to challenge this. I’m really sorry that (Grubel) was just looking at one part of society. He’s targeting the immigrants and I think immigrants bring so much with them.”

In August immigration lawyer Zool Suleman told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News (CBC News), “Parents and grandparents do a lot of undocumented, necessary work inside and outside of the home, allowing Canadians to actually be out in the labor force. Let alone intangible, important things around values and family structures and trying to enshrine a variety of things important to Canada.”

Suleman also warned that changes to the immigration selection process could result in the loss of highly skilled immigrants to Canada.

But Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney in May had already announced new criteria for sponsoring parents and grandparents for immigration.

Grubel said that the changes were “in the right direction,” but he was still doubtful that the new criteria were enough to stop the unbalanced tax payment vs. government benefits from immigrants.

In the US, Harvard Economics Professor George Borjas parallels Grubel’s work. Borjas once reported that immigrants in the US raised the annual national income to US$1.6 trillion annually. But US$1.565 trillion go to immigrant wages and benefits, with only US$35 billion going to the native population. Consequently, Borjas advocates for the reduction of immigrants to the US.

Grubel, writing in National Post, compared the cost of immigration between the US and Canada.

“Immigrants make up 18.8 percent of the population in Canada and 12.8 percent in the US. Assuming the economies of the two countries are very similar in most other respects, applying Borjas’ findings to Canada implies that labor loses CA$40 billion a year and employers gain CA$43.5 billion, including the migration effect of $3.5 billion.”

Nevertheless, the average incomes of immigrants in Canada are below the average incomes of the native population. But in Canada, immigrants are entitled to free education, health care, other welfare benefits and benefits that may result from research and cultural projects.

Parents and grandparents lower average incomes of all immigrants. They are elderly, can’t speak English or French (a necessity in Quebec) and may no longer have marketable skills. Also, at their age, their medical services would be at their highest costs.

Grubel’s proposed solution is to have immigrants attain landed status first before getting their parents and grandparents to live with them. The new landed Canadians must then first post bond to pay for their parents’ and grandparents’ health care and other budgets.

In May the Federal Immigration Minister’s list of occupation in demand for Canada was mostly for different engineers. Doctors and nurses were not on the list, except for Quebec, which listed a need for about 20,000 nurses.

Canada’s immigration policy frequently changes. Much like the US, the flux makes for some uneven and spotty development.

Canada’s Supervisa, for example, allows parents and grandparents to visit family members for up to two years at a time, but does not allow landed status, employment and health benefits. In fact, a year’s worth of private medical insurance coverage is also required. Moreover, the temporary visitor’s child or grandchild in Canada must meet a minimum income based on the number of dependents.

In September Mexico’s Ambassador Francisco Suarez railed against Canada’s Harper administration. Quoted from Taliba, “We’re now really mad. Canada has the most stringent visa system for Mexicans by any country in the world.”

Suarez told Taliba that it is easier to get a visa to the US where there are more illegal border crossings from Mexico. “The Canadians require 10 times more information than the Americans.”

“I had to put the date when my mother and father died, 15 and 20 years ago. What’s the use of putting in that date?”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that he wanted to remove the policy, in place since 2009. But Harper decided to first relieve the large immigration backlog. The issue is even touchier with the planned visit to Canada of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.


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[ramcal]

hi warblade,

my opinion here is whatever canada wants to require us, we should always follow. the reason why we are planning to migrate is for us to get the best life that we have ever dreamed of.

i think the author of the report has a concrete basis and should really be heard. but for us who are still on the process of applying, this is bad news.

if we will look at a macro point of view (without emotions involved) , parents and grandparents are really a heavy burden for the government, you know what i am talking about. but on other hand, immigrants can adapt immediately,work more effectively, live peacefully as a good citizen with the presence of their loveones. this was not included in the report. this i believe is the most important aspect that is being considered right now.

today, Canada is considering not only the skills of those who are applying but they are also looking at the long term, this is why they are considering "heart".

if they will change this scheme, canada will become a nation without heart, only looking out for themselves, earning money is first option and this will be the start of culture change which will definitely hurt their economy in the future.


in short, the existing process should not stop and should not be changed.

anyway, its just my opinion...

 

[eEstrange]

help po,.ano pa pong ibang courier company ang pwede kong tawagan para icheck if they have my passport with visa?
My Ecas status has been into Decision made since last week and when I called WWWexpress(sister co. of DHL) I was told to inquire to other courier since they are not the only who collects packages from CEM...

Thank you in advance

 

[ragluf]

Sir Ragluf,Yes, because for some provinces we can only be eligible for the provincial health insurance after a waiting period of 3 months.

I see. I did not - rolled the dice for 3 months. You can always tough it out for the 3 months, and if ever medical expenses do come, you can reimburse/file a claim when you get provincial health coverage.

Other than that, you can get month-month health insurance from private companies for a monthly fee during the 3-months before eligibility.

 

[cardinal11]

help po,.ano pa pong ibang courier company ang pwede kong tawagan para icheck if they have my passport with visa?
My Ecas status has been into Decision made since last week and when I called WWWexpress(sister co. of DHL) I was told to inquire to other courier since they are not the only who collects packages from CEM...

Thank you in advance

Kelan mo natanggap yung PPR mo? at kelan ka nagsubmit ng passport mo sa CEM? TYGBY

 

[ragluf]

Candidates' work experience, education, language competency and other factors give them higher points and more likely acceptance for immigration to Canada.

In 2011 about 30 percent of Canada's immigrants were selected this way. But with spouses and under-age children coming with them, their number rose to about 63 percent.

Grubel recommended stopping the “fiscal drain” by abandoning the points system, replacing it with pre-arranged work contracts as the main criterion to immigrate to Canada.

My two cents:

Much has been written about acceptance for immigration, but not about settlement. Canada’s stringent requirements for immigrants thus in fact select well-educated, skilled immigrants, but where are the opportunities in their respective fields? There is a disparity in the immigration policies of selection vs tangible programs of assimilation and settlement and how opportunities are presented to the immigrants. Search around the internet and locally and you will find well documented stories of highly-skilled immigrants from all over the world driving taxis, cleaning homes, in fast-food joints etc. This is part of the drain on the economy, immigrants settling and not finding the “Canadian Dream” as presented to them true. Unfortunately, much of the focus has been on retooling the immigration polices and not the support structures for successful settlement, workforce assimilation and retention of settlers. You have productive happy settlers, they contribute much more to the economy. But most of the high-skilled immigrants passing the immigration qualifications do find challenges assimilating into the workforce simply because the opportunities presented to them before deciding to immigrate as equal to their fields are not there, thus forcing them to the underground economy or to the menial jobs not taken by most Canadians. Lesser income per capita, lesser contribution to the economy. Thus the suggestion to have pre-arranged work contracts first before immigrating. More like in the lines of the AU/NZ immigration program.

 

[eEstrange]

Kelan mo natanggap yung PPR mo? at kelan ka nagsubmit ng passport mo sa CEM? TYGBY

sent it on October 11 and CEM received it on October 16

 

[cardinal11]

sent it on October 11 and CEM received it on October 16

Almost the same date yung Medical natin kaya natanong ko yung PPR kung kelan mo nareceived, although last Oct 8 "in process" na yung application pero nanghingi pa sila ng NBI clearance for my wife. Napadala ko na last Oct 25 yung clearance so I expect they already received it, my estimation is: PPR will be received on the month of November, in God's perfect time.

 

[warblade25]

Hi ramcal,

I agree with you, I just want to share it, just to let everyone know that someones trying to stir the immigration policy, but there are people who stood by and defended the immigrant capabilities and contribution to the economy.

Its just a heads up, if there will be any changes. Thanks

 

[eEstrange]

Almost the same date yung Medical natin kaya natanong ko yung PPR kung kelan mo nareceived, although last Oct 8 "in process" na yung application pero nanghingi pa sila ng NBI clearance for my wife. Napadala ko na last Oct 25 yung clearance so I expect they already received it, my estimation is: PPR will be received on the month of November, in God's perfect time.

I see...I received PPR 2 weeks after Ecas changed to "In Process"...you're almost at the end of the process, happy waiting

 

[daverhin26]

hi,guys ppr na po kami. thank god, ask ko lang po pano ipadala passport sa
cem? courier po ba? un appendix a, handwriting lng po ba un?