Every now and then we are having clients whom we simply can’t help. This is certainly the case when these people are ones who are pitted against immigration law changes. Let me give you two recent examples.
The Canadians, in their wisdom, have recently axed off several categories from their skilled migration list. So people like process managers, accountants, and their ilk who are running support services will no longer be eligible for applying under that category anymore. Considering the true objectives of the migration programmes, it is surely understandable that certain job categories will lose their ability to contribute to economic and social growth as time passes by. No one can argue against the logic behind that decision. But what annoys me is the modus operandi of its execution. This law change affects people who have applied for migration more than five years ago. Meaning all their hopes and dreams have been washed away by a simple pencil stroke in an unseen office, holed up somewhere in Canada. There was no pilot period, no warning, no nothing. As much as I understand that Canada may no longer require accountants (whom I despise anyways!!), it is not fair to chop off their appendages after being taken for a ride for over five years. If the Canadian outfit handling the migration applications is overburdened with a millennium long backlog, it is surely not the fault of the applicants, but of Canadian government who have been unable to address issues in their own backyard. Knowing that there is a hefty visa fee included in part and parcel of the migration application process, it leaves you wondering where all that money went.
The second example comes from UKBA. Accordingly to The Guarniad (no spelling mistake), UKBA had just revoked the Highly Trusted Sponsor status of London Metropolitan University. This means that current international students of LMU have become illegal aliens in London - it happened last night, again without a warning, like one of those apocalyptic catastrophes which rid the planet of dinosaurs - except some T-Rex may have survived and found jobs at UKBA.. I am ranting because international students went by the high esteem afforded to LMU by no other authority than UKBA itself, and now the T-Rex turned around and bit off its head.
Time and time again I have warned prospective students (the genuine kind, that is) of duplicity of UKBA and their credential accreditation programme. This is not something unheard of as far as UKBA reputation is concerned. They would give positive accreditation to any plonker with a home brewed college, and then revoke it overnight claiming that the institution is a visa scam. The local British Council will also snare prospective students with colourful brochures and pies in the sky - only till you pay a hefty tuition fee and a visa fee for CAS, both which you could ultimately lose as the bastards at UKBA have suddenly become aware that the institution is not genuine.
If anyone of you reading this is planning to migrate or going for studies, my advice is to beware of the danger you are putting yourself in with these two countries. Canadian immigration services will take till your retirement age to process your application - and then refuse it on the grounds that you are over age to qualify, and, UKBA will wank on your face by revoking the license they granted to your education service provider (on which assurance alone you applied in the first place) and they will screw you and your future while robbing you of your savings.
There you are, QED, how colourful a proof is that for the Theorem of Despaire !
The Canadians, in their wisdom, have recently axed off several categories from their skilled migration list. So people like process managers, accountants, and their ilk who are running support services will no longer be eligible for applying under that category anymore. Considering the true objectives of the migration programmes, it is surely understandable that certain job categories will lose their ability to contribute to economic and social growth as time passes by. No one can argue against the logic behind that decision. But what annoys me is the modus operandi of its execution. This law change affects people who have applied for migration more than five years ago. Meaning all their hopes and dreams have been washed away by a simple pencil stroke in an unseen office, holed up somewhere in Canada. There was no pilot period, no warning, no nothing. As much as I understand that Canada may no longer require accountants (whom I despise anyways!!), it is not fair to chop off their appendages after being taken for a ride for over five years. If the Canadian outfit handling the migration applications is overburdened with a millennium long backlog, it is surely not the fault of the applicants, but of Canadian government who have been unable to address issues in their own backyard. Knowing that there is a hefty visa fee included in part and parcel of the migration application process, it leaves you wondering where all that money went.
The second example comes from UKBA. Accordingly to The Guarniad (no spelling mistake), UKBA had just revoked the Highly Trusted Sponsor status of London Metropolitan University. This means that current international students of LMU have become illegal aliens in London - it happened last night, again without a warning, like one of those apocalyptic catastrophes which rid the planet of dinosaurs - except some T-Rex may have survived and found jobs at UKBA.. I am ranting because international students went by the high esteem afforded to LMU by no other authority than UKBA itself, and now the T-Rex turned around and bit off its head.
Time and time again I have warned prospective students (the genuine kind, that is) of duplicity of UKBA and their credential accreditation programme. This is not something unheard of as far as UKBA reputation is concerned. They would give positive accreditation to any plonker with a home brewed college, and then revoke it overnight claiming that the institution is a visa scam. The local British Council will also snare prospective students with colourful brochures and pies in the sky - only till you pay a hefty tuition fee and a visa fee for CAS, both which you could ultimately lose as the bastards at UKBA have suddenly become aware that the institution is not genuine.
If anyone of you reading this is planning to migrate or going for studies, my advice is to beware of the danger you are putting yourself in with these two countries. Canadian immigration services will take till your retirement age to process your application - and then refuse it on the grounds that you are over age to qualify, and, UKBA will wank on your face by revoking the license they granted to your education service provider (on which assurance alone you applied in the first place) and they will screw you and your future while robbing you of your savings.
There you are, QED, how colourful a proof is that for the Theorem of Despaire !
