When Minister Kenney talked about fairness, we couldn’t help bursting into laughter.
Everytime when Minister Kenney talked about fairness, we PRE-C50 FSW applicants from Beijing couldn’t help bursting into laughter, because the logic of CIC has been far beyond the understanding ability of us.
1. When in 2007 we submitted our applications as FSW to The Embassy of Canada - Beijing, we were informed of waiting in queue for 24-30 months before being processed because of the number of applications received previously. However from 2009 up to now 2012, even after our cases had been processed and most of them had reached final decision stage, crediting Minister’s great queue-jumping processing policy from 2008 the queue before us seems stretch to infinity.
2. From 2008 to today when CIC began processing newer files in preference to older files, the Minister claimed that the 38 or 29 occupations met urgent labour market demand of Canada. If the Minister was sincere about that CIC should have promptly assessed those applications submitted before 27 February 2008 whose NOC were on those Occupation Lists, or even merely informed the applicants to apply under the new system again. However the only information those applicants got from CIC was that their applications had been being processed at a steady rate and would get a final decision by average processing time published on CIC web site. They trusted in the heretofore widely-held belief that the Government of Canada is honest and continued to wait year after year until they were exclude from the eligible occupations list and lost their probability to apply again.
3. CIC explained that the applicants who had applied years after us jumped the queue because they met urgent labour market demand of Canada better than us. That statement was no longer tenable after CIC imposed its second ministerial instructions (MI 2) on June 26 2010, in which 29, not 38 occupations as in MI 1 were demanded, that mean many C50 FSW applicants applied prior to June 26 2010 no longer met urgent labour market demand of Canada at that moment as we did. This situation occurred again on July 1, 2011. However, CIC kept on prioritizing those C-50 files, while suspended our PRE-C50 files on the Greek calends.
4. Frequently, the Minister has stated that Canada is experiencing a huge and growing labour shortage in many industries and regions, while it is extremely obvious that most applicants among us, especially those who had got selection decision made by CIC visa officers, possess the adaptability which had been assessed by CIC, and wishes to adjust themselves to new career among the 29 or further demanded occupations. Instead of giving us half a chance to display our talent CIC lay our cases aside and neglect them.
5. In many occasions, the Minister has stressed that CIC had been taking great efforts to reduce the pre-2008 backlog. On the contrary, as a matter of fact CIC had partly in 2010 and totally in 2011 ceased processing the pre-2008 backlog, including cases of those who had passed their selection decision stage and were only two step away from getting their visa issued, and the visa posts in Beijing even kept back a considerable surplus of the skilled immigrant quota in 2011.
Despite all the self-contradiction, disorder and inefficiency of CIC, meanwhile we applicants show great patience, tolerance and inclusiveness which is regarded as the quintessence of Canadian spirit. In return, the Minister revealed in the proposed Bill C-38 S.87(3,4,5) that he had lost his last patience, inclusiveness, even interest in our 5 years backlog even if it is of his own making.
To conclude this article I would like to cite below information posted on CIC website, please pay attention to the sentence in italics:
‘These criteria affect you only if you applied on or after July 1, 2011. If your application was received before July 1, 2011, it will be processed according to the rules that were in effect at that time.’ (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-instructions.asp#list)
Is CIC still lying?
By Cheng, Jiangchen, one of the PRE-C50 FSW applicants from Beijing
June 7, 2012
Everytime when Minister Kenney talked about fairness, we PRE-C50 FSW applicants from Beijing couldn’t help bursting into laughter, because the logic of CIC has been far beyond the understanding ability of us.
1. When in 2007 we submitted our applications as FSW to The Embassy of Canada - Beijing, we were informed of waiting in queue for 24-30 months before being processed because of the number of applications received previously. However from 2009 up to now 2012, even after our cases had been processed and most of them had reached final decision stage, crediting Minister’s great queue-jumping processing policy from 2008 the queue before us seems stretch to infinity.
2. From 2008 to today when CIC began processing newer files in preference to older files, the Minister claimed that the 38 or 29 occupations met urgent labour market demand of Canada. If the Minister was sincere about that CIC should have promptly assessed those applications submitted before 27 February 2008 whose NOC were on those Occupation Lists, or even merely informed the applicants to apply under the new system again. However the only information those applicants got from CIC was that their applications had been being processed at a steady rate and would get a final decision by average processing time published on CIC web site. They trusted in the heretofore widely-held belief that the Government of Canada is honest and continued to wait year after year until they were exclude from the eligible occupations list and lost their probability to apply again.
3. CIC explained that the applicants who had applied years after us jumped the queue because they met urgent labour market demand of Canada better than us. That statement was no longer tenable after CIC imposed its second ministerial instructions (MI 2) on June 26 2010, in which 29, not 38 occupations as in MI 1 were demanded, that mean many C50 FSW applicants applied prior to June 26 2010 no longer met urgent labour market demand of Canada at that moment as we did. This situation occurred again on July 1, 2011. However, CIC kept on prioritizing those C-50 files, while suspended our PRE-C50 files on the Greek calends.
4. Frequently, the Minister has stated that Canada is experiencing a huge and growing labour shortage in many industries and regions, while it is extremely obvious that most applicants among us, especially those who had got selection decision made by CIC visa officers, possess the adaptability which had been assessed by CIC, and wishes to adjust themselves to new career among the 29 or further demanded occupations. Instead of giving us half a chance to display our talent CIC lay our cases aside and neglect them.
5. In many occasions, the Minister has stressed that CIC had been taking great efforts to reduce the pre-2008 backlog. On the contrary, as a matter of fact CIC had partly in 2010 and totally in 2011 ceased processing the pre-2008 backlog, including cases of those who had passed their selection decision stage and were only two step away from getting their visa issued, and the visa posts in Beijing even kept back a considerable surplus of the skilled immigrant quota in 2011.
Despite all the self-contradiction, disorder and inefficiency of CIC, meanwhile we applicants show great patience, tolerance and inclusiveness which is regarded as the quintessence of Canadian spirit. In return, the Minister revealed in the proposed Bill C-38 S.87(3,4,5) that he had lost his last patience, inclusiveness, even interest in our 5 years backlog even if it is of his own making.
To conclude this article I would like to cite below information posted on CIC website, please pay attention to the sentence in italics:
‘These criteria affect you only if you applied on or after July 1, 2011. If your application was received before July 1, 2011, it will be processed according to the rules that were in effect at that time.’ (http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-instructions.asp#list)
Is CIC still lying?
By Cheng, Jiangchen, one of the PRE-C50 FSW applicants from Beijing
June 7, 2012
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