回复: 移民新政,大多大温地区今日房价开始出现拐点下跌
下面的解读大意是讲:移民局的新政主要是为了尽快处理以往积压下来的投资移民案件,减少移民等候的时间。目的不是为了降低移民的数量。
Changes to Canadian immigration rules
On June 24, the federal government instituted rule changes related to new applications
under the Federal Immigrant Investor Program (IIP), the Federal Skilled Worker Program
(FSW) and the Federal Entrepreneur Program. The changes are as follows:
• Federal Entrepreneur Program: A temporary moratorium on new applications.
• Federal Immigrant Investor Program (IIP): A cap of 700 new IIP applications will
be considered for processing each year.
• Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSW): A cap of 10,000 new FSW applications,
without an offer of arranged employment, will be considered for processing each
year. Within the 10,000 cap, a maximum of 500 new applications per occupation will
be considered each year.
BC, and Vancouver in particular, has been one of the primary recipients of immigrants under
the IIP, accounting for half of total Canadian investor class immigration. From 2005 to 2010,
over 30,000 investor class immigrants have located in BC, an average of about 5,000 per year.
This number relates to roughly 2,000 households per year.
Implications
The Government's stated reason for instituting the application cap is to reduce a backlog in
applications and to shorten wait times. In 2010 there were 3,223 applications approved under
the IIP and the government has indicated that it has received applications well in excess of
that number in recent years, creating a large backlog of applications. It has not indicated that
it wishes to lower the number of immigrants processed under the IIP, but simply to reduce the
current backlog.
Therefore, as old applications are still being processed, the implementation of the new rules
may not have an impact on the number of immigrants entering under the IIP and therefore may
not have a material impact on BC housing markets.
• To view Citizenship and Immigration Canada's (CIC) press release, visit:
www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/releases/2011/2011-06-24a.asp.
• For more information about the Federal Immigrant Investor Program, visit:
www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/investors/index.asp.
• For more information about the Federal Entrepreneur Program, visit:
www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/entrepreneurs/index.asp.
• For more information about the Skilled Worker Program, visit:
www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/index.asp.
• To view CIC's Frequently Asked Questions, visit:
www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/faq/immigrate/business/index.asp.