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http://www.vancouversun.com/Nixed+a...ation+policies+unjust+says/6656106/story.html Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjust, says skilled worker800 people launch legal action to force Ottawa to process their paperworkVancouver was at the top of Preet Deep Singh’s list when he and his wife were looking for a new place to call home.The couple, who were living in Mumbai, India, and applied to immigrate to Canada in 2004, had friends and family in the Lower Mainland who offered them accommodation and help getting set up. They even planned a whale-watching trip.Singh thought their chances of being accepted to Canada as skilled workers were good. He had an MBA from Newport University in California and had experience doing marketing for well-known liquor companies such as Bacardi and Jack Daniel’s. His wife, Harpreet, had a master’s degree in commerce from Panjab University. Both were in their 20s when they applied. The couple passed on opportunities to emigrate to the U.S. and Australia, hoping the Canadian application would come through.Eight years later, Singh received word that his application was one of about 280,000 being cancelled by Canada’s immigration department in an effort to clear a massive backlog under the country’s federal skilled worker program. Moreover, his skills are no longer listed as a target priority under new, more stringent, criteria.“I had trust in Canadian policies and I have been proven wrong,” Singh wrote in an email. “Now I will never recommend any of my professional friends to choose Canada, as Canada’s policies are totally unpredictable and unjust.”Despite repeated assurances from the Canadian government that his application was in progress and would be processed in the order it was received, Singh and his wife gave up on Canada and their dream of moving to Vancouver, and in 2009 accepted an offer of residence in the United Kingdom. Singh said that country issued him a visa under its highly skilled migrant program within a month of his application.“I finally thought, okay, let’s not miss this opportunity,” he said by telephone from Leeds, England, where he is regional manager for the European division of the Kingfisher beer company.Singh is part of a group called the Canadian Back Loggers Pre-2008 Association, a reference to the immigration department’s decision to return all federal skilled worker applications made before Feb. 27, 2008. The group, which Singh says has about 20,000 members ― and counting ― is calling on Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to reverse the decision and to process the applications.He is also part of a legal action being spearheaded by Toronto immigration lawyer Tim Leahy asking the Federal Court to force Citizenship and Immigration Canada to process the applications of the approximately 800 litigants involved.Leahy noted that when the federal budget implementation bill passes, as it is expected to next month, those applications will be abolished. He has filed a motion on behalf of Singh and the other litigants asking the court not to allow this while the matter is before the courts. The first hearing is scheduled for June 5.Kenney said it is necessary for the government to eliminate the backlog in order to make the country’s immigration system more responsive to the country’s rapidly changing labour market needs.“Having to process applications that are as many as eight years out of date reduces our ability to focus on new applicants with skills and talents that our economy needs today,” Kenney said in a news release at the end of March, which also noted that in the last four years, the federal government has reduced the pre-2008 backlog by more than 50 per cent and overall applications under the federal skilled worker program by more than 25 per cent. If the backlog was not eliminated, current skilled worker applicants would have to wait until 2017 for a decision, Kenney said in the release.Fair enough, said Singh, but the Conservatives came to power in 2006. He questions why it took that long to realize they could not cope with the backlog, all the while assuring potential immigrants ― who followed the rules and applied in good faith ― that their applications were being [email protected]/tarajcarman© Copyright (c) The Vancouver SunRead more: http://www.vancouversun.com/Nixed+a...illed+worker/6656106/story.html#ixzz1vbtDCNBS

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回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjustPreet Deep Singh 在英国的印度人

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回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjust温哥华太阳报这篇报道的主人公，就是TIM在一月开庭的代表案例PREET DEEP SINGH DATTA 他的FN是04年的。 他是我在430前最早认识的印度人。430当天他也在英国的一个城市组织了抗议，当天晚上我们还通电话了。（真是很凑巧，接他电话时我正走在弥敦道一个印度餐馆前）（我的记忆力还真的不错耶，连小时候和谁在什么地点说过什么话都记得，这个论坛谁在什么时候发了什么样的帖子也马上能想起来）

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​ 超赞 赏 L Les Paradis 0$(VIP 0) 3,7882012-12-19#5 回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjust

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​ 超赞 赏 S snowolf2008 0$(VIP 0) 3162012-12-19#6 回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjustMOI国际名人！

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回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjust继续坚持，曙光就在不远处。祝愿大家得到公正。

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回复: Vancouver Sun Nixed applications show Canadian immigration policies are unjust没想到我在facebook上这么受欢迎哈，这两天加好友的请求快10个了。这几个月虽然没怎么发帖，隔几天也有一个加好友的请求。不光是印度的，还有伊拉克，巴基斯坦，挪威等等地方的。

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​MOI国际名人！点击展开... 这个“名人”是不好当的，也没什么价值，因为是极其短暂的名气而已，并且我已经付出了很大的代价，那么多人疯狂骂我的时候，不知道那些指控我做这一切是为了出名的势利小人都躲到哪里去了。 这么点名气能不能弥补等待这么多年被一刀切的痛苦呢？ 这么点名气对我到底有什么帮助呢？ 做一个出头鸟有多大的潜在危险有人预料得到吗？ 。。。。。。 我这几个月最大的收获是认识了很多我发自内心欣赏的朋友，让我改变了原先对国人的感觉。中国人里还是有不少血气方、敢说敢做，愿意为朋友两勒插刀的真汉子真侠女。也发现了少数既有智慧又有胆识，给人感觉品味也不俗的人，真的很惊艳。

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