对父母团聚的好消息。抗议生效了！
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CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION MINISTER JOE VOLPE ANNOUNCES TRIPLING OF THE NUMBER OF PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS IMMIGRATING TO CANADA IN 2005
Ottawa, April 18, 2005 ? The Honourable Joe Volpe, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced measures to speed up the processing of sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents coming to Canada as family class immigrants. With these new measures in place, it is expected that in both 2005 and 2006, the number of parents and grandparents immigrating to Canada will increase by an additional 12,000 each year. This triples the original 6,000 forecasted for 2005.
Minister Volpe is also announcing that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will be more flexible in issuing multiple-entry visitor visas to parents and grandparents. This will allow them to visit their families in Canada while their sponsorship applications are in process, as long as they are able to prove that they are visiting temporarily. Regular security and health screening will still apply and some parents and grandparents may require health coverage to be admissible to Canada.
“Today’s announcement will help CIC ease inventory pressures in the short term while working with the provinces, territories and communities on finding longer term solutions,” said Minister Volpe. “I would like to thank stakeholders and the members of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration for their support of our efforts to improve processing times for the reunification of family members.”
CIC has welcomed over one million permanent residents since 2000 and has consistently met its annual immigration targets since that time. However, the number of sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents is growing and more applications are received each day than CIC can process. To address this concern, the Government of Canada is investing $36 million a year over two years to increase processing of parent and grandparent applications and to cover integration costs once they arrive in Canada.
“We are taking action now to address one of the most pressing issues for CIC and to make our processing system as efficient as possible. Reuniting families is a commitment of the Government of Canada as well as a key priority of Canada’s immigration program,” added the Minister.
Additional processing will begin immediately. In the coming weeks, CIC will add temporary duty officers and support staff at visa offices with the largest number of applications.
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For more information (media only):
Stephen Heckbert Maria Iadinardi
Director of Communications Media Relations
Office of the Minister Communications Branch
(613) 954-1064 (613) 952-0740
Visit our Internet site at www.cic.gc.ca
Ottawa, April 18, 2005 ? The Honourable Joe Volpe, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced measures to speed up the processing of sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents coming to Canada as family class immigrants. With these new measures in place, it is expected that in both 2005 and 2006, the number of parents and grandparents immigrating to Canada will increase by an additional 12,000 each year. This triples the original 6,000 forecasted for 2005.
Minister Volpe is also announcing that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will be more flexible in issuing multiple-entry visitor visas to parents and grandparents. This will allow them to visit their families in Canada while their sponsorship applications are in process, as long as they are able to prove that they are visiting temporarily. Regular security and health screening will still apply and some parents and grandparents may require health coverage to be admissible to Canada.
“Today’s announcement will help CIC ease inventory pressures in the short term while working with the provinces, territories and communities on finding longer term solutions,” said Minister Volpe. “I would like to thank stakeholders and the members of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration for their support of our efforts to improve processing times for the reunification of family members.”
CIC has welcomed over one million permanent residents since 2000 and has consistently met its annual immigration targets since that time. However, the number of sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents is growing and more applications are received each day than CIC can process. To address this concern, the Government of Canada is investing $36 million a year over two years to increase processing of parent and grandparent applications and to cover integration costs once they arrive in Canada.
“We are taking action now to address one of the most pressing issues for CIC and to make our processing system as efficient as possible. Reuniting families is a commitment of the Government of Canada as well as a key priority of Canada’s immigration program,” added the Minister.
Additional processing will begin immediately. In the coming weeks, CIC will add temporary duty officers and support staff at visa offices with the largest number of applications.
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For more information (media only):
Stephen Heckbert Maria Iadinardi
Director of Communications Media Relations
Office of the Minister Communications Branch
(613) 954-1064 (613) 952-0740
Visit our Internet site at www.cic.gc.ca
With the joyful tears on the face, I realized that CIC finally will do something to fix the huge backlog it caused in the past two years. For many, it is a victory of human rights; it is a victory of the nature of human beings. However, two years have been wasted. Our parents are still apart with their lovely sons and daughters and no where to know exactly how many years they have to wait. Will they become the winner when they have to take competition with time? Can they still bear the brutal separation for another two years? I asked myself again and again. It is truly that something is shining at the end of the tunnel; however, we still have long way to go before this little shining become the joyful reunification. Keep fighting, guys. Our parents need us; we are the only hope of our parents.
看到了吧,有意见就要去提,去游行,民主社会,选票管用啊!
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/18/immigration-changes050418.html
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New immigration plan to clear backlog
Last Updated Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:16:05 EDT
CBC News
OTTAWA - Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe on Monday announced a new $72-million plan aimed at helping immigrants reunite with relatives and clear a giant backlog of applicants.
Part of the plan is designed to help those who want to sponsor their parents or grandparents, a process that immigration lawyers say can take between five and 10 years. Volpe said the new plan will should clear more than 100,000 applications off the book.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe in Brampton, Ontario, Monday.
Key aspects of the immigration plan include:
- A tripling in the number of parents and grandparents accepted over the next two years, bringing the total to 18,000 a year. Ottawa will invest $36 million a year for two years to cover the costs of processing and integrating parents and grandparents.
- The waiving of English- and French-language tests for citizenship applicants aged 55 years of age and older, rather than 60 years of age.
- A change to allow international students to work and gain Canadian experience while they're being trained in this country. Upon graduation they will be able to work for one year if they stay in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and for two years if they move to a smaller community.
- Incentives to encourage new Canadians to settle outside major metropolitan centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
More money to clear a growing backlog of citizenship applications.
- The changes do not need legislative approval and could take place immediately, giving the Liberals some campaign momentum with immigrant communities should their minority government fall this spring or summer.
Volpe announced the immigration plan in Brampton, Ont., on Monday morning, accompanied by members of Parliament from other Toronto-area ridings that are home to significant numbers of new Canadians.
Big backlogs causing hardship
Immigration lawyer Michael Greene says there should be a public debate over solving the backlogs in bringing family members to Canada, which are causing severe hardship for new immigrants.
"I do think that Canadian family values are there and that it's a motherhood and apple pie issue ? and in this case, literally a motherhood issue," he said.
Harbinder Gill, who moved to Calgary from the Indian state of Punjab seven years ago, says the delay is taking a heavy toll on him.
"I drive stressed, I go to work stressed, I'm always stressed, I stay home stressed," he said. "I'm always thinking about my mother and sisters."
His father died after Gill arrived in Canada, but every day he waits for some news about whether he'll be reunited with his aging mother and his sisters.
After five years of waiting, he is beginning to give up hope. If his family sponsorship application isn't approved in the next year, the 35-year-old says he'll move back to India.
"We find this across the country," said Calgary Conservative MP Lee Richardson of the frustration and despair felt by immigrants wanting their families nearby. "Upwards of 70 per cent of case work in our MPs' offices are immigration business.
"That's nuts. There's something wrong with the system."
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/18/immigration-changes050418.html
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New immigration plan to clear backlog
Last Updated Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:16:05 EDT
CBC News
OTTAWA - Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe on Monday announced a new $72-million plan aimed at helping immigrants reunite with relatives and clear a giant backlog of applicants.
Part of the plan is designed to help those who want to sponsor their parents or grandparents, a process that immigration lawyers say can take between five and 10 years. Volpe said the new plan will should clear more than 100,000 applications off the book.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Joe Volpe in Brampton, Ontario, Monday.
Key aspects of the immigration plan include:
- A tripling in the number of parents and grandparents accepted over the next two years, bringing the total to 18,000 a year. Ottawa will invest $36 million a year for two years to cover the costs of processing and integrating parents and grandparents.
- The waiving of English- and French-language tests for citizenship applicants aged 55 years of age and older, rather than 60 years of age.
- A change to allow international students to work and gain Canadian experience while they're being trained in this country. Upon graduation they will be able to work for one year if they stay in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and for two years if they move to a smaller community.
- Incentives to encourage new Canadians to settle outside major metropolitan centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
More money to clear a growing backlog of citizenship applications.
- The changes do not need legislative approval and could take place immediately, giving the Liberals some campaign momentum with immigrant communities should their minority government fall this spring or summer.
Volpe announced the immigration plan in Brampton, Ont., on Monday morning, accompanied by members of Parliament from other Toronto-area ridings that are home to significant numbers of new Canadians.
Big backlogs causing hardship
Immigration lawyer Michael Greene says there should be a public debate over solving the backlogs in bringing family members to Canada, which are causing severe hardship for new immigrants.
"I do think that Canadian family values are there and that it's a motherhood and apple pie issue ? and in this case, literally a motherhood issue," he said.
Harbinder Gill, who moved to Calgary from the Indian state of Punjab seven years ago, says the delay is taking a heavy toll on him.
"I drive stressed, I go to work stressed, I'm always stressed, I stay home stressed," he said. "I'm always thinking about my mother and sisters."
His father died after Gill arrived in Canada, but every day he waits for some news about whether he'll be reunited with his aging mother and his sisters.
After five years of waiting, he is beginning to give up hope. If his family sponsorship application isn't approved in the next year, the 35-year-old says he'll move back to India.
"We find this across the country," said Calgary Conservative MP Lee Richardson of the frustration and despair felt by immigrants wanting their families nearby. "Upwards of 70 per cent of case work in our MPs' offices are immigration business.
"That's nuts. There's something wrong with the system."
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并不关心什么大选,只关心他们的这个加速父母移民进程的新政策是否是真的,如果是真的,投谁一票都无所谓.
会是真的吗?
会是真的吗?
