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Ship carrying Tamil migrants
Ship carrying Tamil migrants

Canadian Immigration Officials are monitoring a ship that may be headed to British Columbia. According to a Sri Lanka newspaper the ship is carrying Tamil migrants. According to the newspaper, the Colombo Observer, the ship is carrying 200 migrants, some of them Tamil Tigers.

The Colombo Observer reported that the ship was last spotted in May in the Gulf of Thailand.MV Sun Sea earlier known as Harin Panich 19, is captained by an LTTE Sea Tiger leader Vinod and manned by a 24-member crew. The Colombo Sunday Observer reports that the ship was heading towards Australia two weeks ago and the Sri Lankan Government tipped off the Australians. It also says that Canada is likely to admit the ships entry, but deny citizenship to those identified as LTTE.Just last October a ship that had crossed the Pacific Ocean and was intercepted in Canadian waters.

There were 76 Tamils aboard, which are now in the refugee system. Their claim was that Tamils were still being persecuted by the Sri Lankan government. Canada’s Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, is trying to streamline the refugee process. Last year it announced VISA requirements for Mexicans and citizens of the Czech Republic due to bogus refugee claims. Refugee Claims are bogged down in bureaucracy with bogus claims, while real refugee claims are also held up. The governemnts new procedures are said to speed up those claims.

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Home Prices Rising
Home Prices Rising

Stubbornly high unemployment rates got you down? Not sold on the economic recovery? Look no further than America’s polite neighbor to the north, where jobs numbers are surging and home prices have been rising steadily for nearly a year.

Last month, Canada, a nation with roughly one tenth of our population, created about 10,000 more new jobs than America.

Yes, Canada’s economic recovery is outpacing our own. In terms of sheer job creation, June saw Canada create jobs at a pace that was five times the rate predicted by economists, Bloomberg News reports. Canada added 93,200 jobs in June, while U.S. private employers added just 83,000.

Thanks to strong hiring in the service sector,Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 7.9 from 8.1 percent, while America’s unemployment ratecame in at 9.5 percent in June, falling only because of a large exodus of Americans looking for work. All told, the U.S. lost 125,000 jobs in June because of a wave of Census layoffs.

Real estate prices tell a similar story. After 10 straight monthly gains, Canadian home prices rose0.3 percent in May, reports Bloomberg News. In the States, things are somewhat bleaker. Many areas showed small home price gains in May, , but in many other areas prices remain close to their April 2009 lows, according to the latest data from the widely-watched S&P/Case-Shiller index.

Canadian real estate broker Royal LePage predicts Canada’s home prices could rise an average of 6.8 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, the IMF, though remaining relatively upbeat on the U.S. housing and job markets, warned that the foreclosure crisis could lead to a double-dip in home prices.

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MAJOR CANADIAN IMMIGRATION RULE CHANGES

Major Canadian Immigration Rule Changes
Major Canadian Immigration Rule Changes

MAJOR CANADIAN IMMIGRATION RULE CHANGES

On Saturday, June 26, 2010, Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced major changes to the Independent/Skilled Worker Class and to the Investor Category of the Business Class with no advance notice.

A.            INDEPENDENT/SKILLED WORKER CLASS

1.            Changes

a.            As of June 26, 2010, to be eligible to apply for Permanent Residence in Canada in the Independent/Skilled Worker Class, an applicant must:

  • include the results of his/her official language proficiency test, AND
  • have a valid offer of arranged employment, OR
  • have one (1) year of continuous full-time paid work experience or two (2) years of continuous half-time paid work experience in at least one (1) of the following twenty-nine (29) occupations:

0631 Restaurant and Food Service Managers
0811 Primary Production Managers (Except Agriculture) – click on link for job description
1122 Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management – click on link for job description
1233 Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners
2121 Biologists and Related Scientists
2151 Architects
3111 Specialist Physicians
3112 General Practitioners and Family Physicians
3113 Dentists
3131 Pharmacists
3142 Physiotherapists
3152 Registered Nurses
3215 Medical Radiation Technologists
3222 Dental Hygienists & Dental Therapists
3233 Licensed Practical Nurses
4151 Psychologists
4152 Social Workers
6241 Chefs
6242 Cooks
7215 Contractors and Supervisors, Carpentry Trades
7216 Contractors and Supervisors, Mechanic Trades
7241 Electricians (Except Industrial & Power System)
7242 Industrial Electricians
7251 Plumbers
7265 Welders & Related Machine Operators
7312 Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics
7371 Crane Operators
7372 Drillers & Blasters – Surface Mining, Quarrying & Construction
8222 Supervisors, Oil and Gas Drilling and Service

b.            A maximum of twenty thousand (20,000) Federal Skilled Worker applications will be considered for processing until July of next year. Within the twenty thousand (20,000) cap, a maximum of one thousand (1,000) Federal Skilled Worker Applications per eligible occupation (any one (1) of the twenty-nine (29) occupations that appears on Canada’s General Occupations (Demand) List) will be considered for processing until July of next year.

2.            What does this mean?

a.            Existing Clients of Abrams & Krochak

(i)            Application already filed

If you are already a client of Abrams & Krochak and your Application for Permanent Residence in Canada was filed with Citizenship and Immigration Canada BEFORE June 26, 2010, the changes to the eligibility requirements for the Independent/Skilled Worker Class do NOT apply to you.  Your Application will be processed in accordance with the eligibility requirements and General Occupations (Demand) List that existed from November 28, 2008 to June 25, 2010.

(ii)            Application not yet filed

If you are already a client of Abrams & Krochak and your Application for Permanent Residence in Canada was NOT filed with Citizenship and Immigration Canada BEFORE June 26, 2010, the changes to the eligibility requirements for the Independent/Skilled Worker Class DO apply to you.  Your Application will be processed in accordance with the new eligibility requirements and General Occupations (Demand) List that exist as of June 26, 2010.  Your eligibility MIGHT be affected.  If you ARE still eligible to apply, you should move to have your Application filed AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE before the quota for your particular occupation and/or the quota for the Independent/Skilled Worker Class is/are reached for the period of June 2010 to June 2011.  Please send an e-mail to info@akcanada.com to ascertain your eligibility status and/or the current status of your Application.

b.            Non-Clients of Abrams & Krochak

(i)            Eligibility already assessed

If you had your eligibility to immigrate to Canada in the Independent/Skilled Worker Class already favourably assessed by Abrams & Krochak and wish to have your eligibility re-assessed in accordance with the new eligibility requirements, please send an e-mail to askus@akcanada.com with your request.  You will receive your reassessment within one (1) business day.

If you had your eligibility to immigrate to Canada in the Independent/Skilled Worker Class already favourably reassessed by Abrams & Krochak OR you are certain that you meet the new eligibility requirements and you wish to apply for Permanent Residence in Canada as a Skilled Worker with our assistance, it is IMPERATIVE that you retain/engage our services AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE so that we can file your Application for Permanent Residence before the quota for your particular occupation and/or the quota for the Independent/Skilled Worker Class is/are reached.  Otherwise, you may have to wait until next year’s List is announced; however, should you do so, you run the risk that your particular occupation might no longer appear on that List, thereby rendering you ineligible to immigrate to Canada as a Skilled Worker.  If you no longer have instructions on how to retain/engage Abrams & Krochak’s services, please visit http://www.akcanada.com/resources/ind.cfm.

(ii)            Eligibility not yet assessed

If you are interested in immigrating to Canada as a skilled worker but you have not yet had your eligibility to do so assessed by Abrams & Krochak, we invite you to complete our Free Online Assessment Questionnaire at http://www.akcanada.com/assessment.cfm.  You will receive your assessment within one (1) business day.


B.            INVESTOR CATEGORY OF THE BUSINESS CLASS

1.            Changes

The Government of Canada is proposing new eligibility criteria for the Immigrant Investor Program. These proposed regulatory changes would require new investors to have a personal net worth of 1.6 million CAD, up from 800,000 CAD, and make an investment of 800,000 CAD, up from 400,000 CAD.  As a result, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will temporarily stop accepting new Applications until the changes are finalized. Only Applications postmarked or received before June 26, 2010, will be accepted. This will prevent a flood of Applications before the new criteria take effect, which would stretch processing times even further.

2.            What does this mean?

a.            Existing Clients of Abrams & Krochak

(i)            Application already filed

If you are already a client of Abrams & Krochak and your Application for Permanent Residence in Canada was filed with Citizenship and Immigration Canada BEFORE June 26, 2010, any changes to the eligibility requirements for the Investor Category of the Business Class will NOT apply to you.  Your Application will be processed in accordance with the eligibility requirements that existed from November 28, 2008 to June 25, 2010.

(ii)            Application not yet filed

If you are already a client of Abrams & Krochak and your Application for Permanent Residence in Canada was NOT filed with Citizenship and Immigration Canada BEFORE June 26, 2010, any changes to the eligibility requirements for the Investor Category of the Business Class MIGHT apply to you.  Furthermore, you will be unable to file your Application with Citizenship and Immigration Canada until such time as the moratorium on new Investor Applications is lifted.  Current speculation is that the moratorium will not be lifted until the fall of 2010.

In the circumstances, you have one (1) of two (2) options:

1. You can wait until the moratorium is lifted and, if new eligibility requirements are enacted, see whether you meet them and then decide what to do.

OR

2. You can consider migrating to Canada NOW in the Entrepreneur Category of the Business Class, assuming you meet the eligibility criteria (click on the word “Entrepreneur” to learn about the eligibility criteria for this category).

Please send an e-mail to info@akcanada.com to ascertain your eligibility status and/or the current status of your Application.

b.            Non-Clients of Abrams & Krochak

(i)            Eligibility already assessed

If you already had your eligibility to immigrate to Canada in the Investor Category of the Business Class favourably assessed by Abrams & Krochak and wish to apply for Permanent Residence in Canada as an Investor with our assistance, you have one (1) of three (3) options:

1. If you wish to formally retain/engage our services (i.e. because you believe that you will meet the new eligibility criteria should they be enacted), you can do so; however, we would not be able to file your Application until such time as Citizenship and Immigration Canada lifts the moratorium on new Applications.  Current speculation is that this will occur in the fall of 2010.

2. You can contact our office, again, in the fall of 2010 for a reassessment of your eligibility to immigrate to Canada in the Investor Category of the Business Class in accordance with the eligibility criteria in existence at that time.

3. You can consider migrating to Canada NOW in the Entrepreneur Category of the Business Class, assuming you meet the eligibility criteria (click on the word “Entrepreneur” to learn about the eligibility criteria for this category).

If you no longer have instructions on how to retain/engage Abrams & Krochak’s services, please visit http://www.akcanada.com/resources/bus_inv.cfm.

(ii)            Eligibility not yet assessed

If you are interested in immigrating to Canada as an Investor but you have not yet had your eligibility to do so assessed by Abrams & Krochak, we invite you to revisit our website in the fall of 2010 (when there is more certainty as to the eligibility requirements for the Investor Category of the Business Class)  and complete our Free Online Assessment Questionnaire at http://www.akcanada.com/assessment.cfm.  You will receive your assessment within one (1) business day.

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The Canadian economy grew an astounding amount in 2009 and that pace of growth is the strongest in more than a decade and twice the 3% growth reported by the U.S. With so much uncertainty in the air in the U.S., President Obama would be smart take a long moment during his Toronto visit to learn some lessons from the Canadian way of growing an economy. While the U.S. economy has stabilized, its prospects for a strong recovery remain in doubt. The Obama administration continues to propose stimulus efforts to spur job growth, but so far the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high. Even worse, many economists are now predicting another dip in the housing market and more trouble ahead for the banking sector.

Canada is expected to lead the G7 in economic growth for at least the next two years. How did our northern neighbor become the economic star of the exclusive G7 club of developed nations, which includes Britain, France and Japan?

1) A lack of bankers gone wild: A key reason is that its banks sailed through the worst downturn since The Great Depression without getting knocked to the ground by subprime mortgages. Canadian banks remain as solid and well-capitalized as ever. And despite a reputation for bleeding retail customers and small businesses dry with service charges and fees, they continue to underpin Canada’s economy.

2) Innovative manufacturers: Exporters used to have a historic cost advantage. That’s no longer true: the Canadian dollar trades at near parity with the US Dollar. Instead of asking for protection: “Manufacturers have been forced to look for new customers and do business differently,” says Jayson Myers, president of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, the country’s largest trade and industry association. Companies that have survived the global downturn are investing in new product design and engineering for new customers in Mexico, China and India.

3) Fiscally restrained government: Finally, Canada is on an economic tear because Ottawa has managed to get its fiscal house in order over the last 15 years, with the federal deficit now at a mere 3.5% of GDP. This compares to 11.3% in the U.S. and 10.4% in Britain.

Canada has one of the lowest unemployment rates, and it continues to fall. I would highly recommend that you apply now for permanent residency of Canada, as the jobs in demand for Canada immigration by CCIC are subject to change at anytime, and you may no longer be eligible to immigrate. You may view a list of the jobs in demand at

To begin your first step towards your new life in Canada simply complete our free Canadian immigration eligibility assessment at

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