Canada’s immigration backlogs - blatantly racist
South Asian immigration applications are disproportionately affected by quotas/targets and immense backlogs. For example, the quota, or target as Ottawa calls it, for the New Delhi office is 9,245 visas a year. The backlog as of April 10 was 145,556. With no new applications, it would take a little under...
The Americans don’t want you - well we do!
America attracts the best form of human capital- IT specialists, doctors, scientists, engineers etc. America is the envy of the Western World as most skilled professionals want to work there, because after all, it is the land of plenty. Most of these individuals enter on H-1B visas and all of them have...
Meet Jason Kenney - Canada’s new Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism
With Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent cabinet shuffle, Jason Kenney, the former Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity has been appointed as the new Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. Jason Kenney was first elected to the House of Commons in...