Today the prospective immigrants to Canada got another shocking news that the new figures of Citizenship and Immigration Canada show a new policy trend under which skilled immigration will get a severe blow. It is impending that the skilled immigration visas will be reduced by almost 7% in the year 2011. These undercurrents of policy objectives that are being reshaped by the current Citizenship and Immigration Minister show a diabolic and conflicting tendency based on regional as well as ideological considerations. In reality, such downward trends would result in serious economic consequences for Canada, especially for larger metropolitan areas. On the one hand, the Government of Canada has been uttering a never-ending rhetoric that the immigration policy needs to be restructured on realistic economic pragmatics in order to make influx of skilled immigration more attractive for skilled foreign professionals and more competitive in the global immigration market. To the contrary, in practice the new changes in different aspects of Canadian immigration system during recent years show a completely opposite trend thereby seriously affecting the inflow of workers in Canada. The introduction of priority occupation list has already significantly impeded the arrival of highly skilled and much needed workers in Canada when Citizenship and Immigration policymakers thought (strangely enough) it was not enough and further aimed to reduce the available visas in the skilled immigration category.
Immigration consultants and immigration lawyers have expressed shock and surprise on such policy pursuits of Citizenship and Immigration which appear to be more of the nature of whims of someone in authority then well thought about policy considerations. Under the circumstances, it is indispensable for intending skilled foreign nationals that they must seek the advice and guidance of an experienced immigration professional before filing their Canadian immigration applications in order to avoid any complications during the processing of their immigration application.
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