The federal agency still has to do health and security checks on the applicants, and estimates it could take five to 10 years to clear the 2,000 cases.
The federal agency still has to do health and security checks on the applicants, and estimates it could take five to 10 years to clear the 2,000 cases.
下面这个新闻更恐怖,说这些资金被MLA拥有的公司得到了,拿去投资了,在这些移民还没有到加拿大的数年前,并且依然可能被拒绝的情况下(While the money is already invested, it could be years before the immigrants arrive in Canada, and they could still be rejected),看上去像是两个不同党派的矛盾搞出来的,MLA是加拿大省立法会议员的简称(Member of the legislative assembly) http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/10/01/pe-nominee-ghiz.html
P.E.I.'s Provincial Nominee Program, at the centre of a controversy about how immigrants' money is being invested, will be subject to a full review by the province's auditor general.
While the program typically involved a few hundred immigrants every year since it launched around 2001, 2,000 were approved by the province between April 1 and Sept. 2.
The federal agency still has to do health and security checks on the applicants, and estimates it could take five to 10 years to clear the 2,000 cases.
从上面的文字看来,是否可以理解为:PEI项目正常的配额(或其他名次)只有很少的几百人(5百以内?),现在积压的估计在2500-3000人(2008年4月到9月,2000人,之前未结束的案子500以上),这样算起来,的确进度不容乐观。
可爱的爱岛居民comment:
The island has a serious issue, trying to stem the tide of out-migration, coupled with an aging demographic, and a serious lack of highly educated, skilled labour.
This couple is young, has a child, wants several more, are highly educated and skilled, wants to raise their family on the island, wants to become Canadian taxpayers and to help our economy by BUYING things HERE--and we CHARGE THEM $150K for the priviledge???
Mr. Lin, you sound like a very nice man, but you are getting ripped-off. WE should be paying YOU to come here--not the other way around.
This is just another example of a ethically-bankrupt political bureaucracy taking advantage of anyone the least bit vulnerable. Thank goodness for KARMA, these guys running this sham will get EXACTLY what they've earned in the end.