Workers, citizens, residents and everyone else in Punjab run away from their own country with fear after June’s blood bath this year. People in Punjab and Pakistan feel forced to immigrate to Canada with a work permit. As of this year, Canada is recognised for its value of human rights and its rich multicultural society including immigrants. Canada is also claimed as one of the top five safest countries. Asian World talks about how the fraud and corruption of a work permit ties in with the new ‘Express Entry’ scheme which will attract new immigrants to Canada for employment.
The new ‘Express Entry’ scheme will launch in January 2015. On the 1st October 2014, WorkPermit.com released information that ‘around 150,000 people have arrived in Canada this year [in 2014] so far, from over 200 countries.’
Before receiving the work permit and applying for permanent residency in Canada, candidates have to go through the Express Entry scheme. In the first instance candidates need to fill out an online profile to register their interest in immigrating to Canada. Candidates will have to meet the requirements for one of the Canadian immigration programs. Employers will consider the application for the Express Entry candidates for where there are no Canadians or permanent residents available to work. When the candidates are in Canada, they will be judged on prospective economic success and those with the highest rankings can apply for permanent residence and therefore will receive a work permit in Canada.
In September 2014 the Canada Immigration Newsletter has addressed the needs for new immigrants to take on labour work in the small towns of the rural areas in Canada. There are not enough labour workers in these areas but these workers will strengthen the local economies. Canada will benefit from having the South Asian diaspora work in these rural areas with a work permit. It might not always be the case but usually people from South Asia are prepared to work for less than the going rate. But one can argue that it costs more to bring a candidate from South Asia than to employ someone from Canada.
‘Over half of all work permit applicants misrepresent their employment history,’ claimed the Indo-Canadian Voice on the 9th September 2014. There have been too many recent Temporary Resident Visas (TRV) issued to candidates in the capital of Punjab and they are being convinced that the TRV are their work permits. Indo-Canadian Voice claims that agents are scanning fraudulent work permits and sending these to the candidates. And this is a continuing trend which will not work in anyone’s favour.
