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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:08 am Post subject: Feds to ease immigra |
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This is just the type of immigrant the country needs. Old people who never put a dime into the tax coffers, but will be a burden on our already overtaxed health care system. Could it be that the Liberals are just looking for more grateful voters?
OTTAWA (CP) - The Liberal government wants to streamline the citizenship application process and make it easier for immigrants to reunite their families by bringing parents and grandparents to Canada.
Sources say Immigration Minister Joe Volpe is also set to loosen rules on foreign college and university students, to make it easier for them to work while they're in Canada.
The moves are expected to be announced Monday by Volpe at a pair of news conferences in Toronto and Montreal.
The aim of the citizenship changes is to reduce the current backlog of cases that can see applicants wait up to two years for a decision. The government wants to cut the waiting time to a maximum of 12 months.
On family reunification, the goal is to triple the number of applications processed in a year, from the current 6,000 to about 18,000. The aim there is to reduce a massive list of about 100,000 cases currently on file.
The rules on foreign students currently restrict them to on-campus jobs while they attend school in Canada. Those regulations will be relaxed to let them work off-campus.
They will also be allowed to stay in the country and work for up to two years after graduation - rather than the current one year - if they take jobs outside the three major urban centres of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
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