IMMIGRANT INVESTORS

There are many reasons why somebody might want to immigrate to Canada using the business immigration category. We have tried to put together the top 5 reasons for doing so. We have asked many immigrant investors why they have decided to immigrate to Canada as immigrant investors. This is what they told us.

1- Education:

They wanted to provide a better education to their growing kids. They felt that Canada could offer them better options for college and universities. By immigrating to Canada they don’t have to pay the expensive fees for foreign students.

2- Security:

For immigrants coming from politically unstable countries, Canada and the Canadian citizenship provided them with one of the best safety net in case something went wrong in their country.

3- Ease of travel:

Immigrating to Canada and having a Canadian permanent resident status greatly facilitates any business travel around the world. The Canadian passport is recognized by many countries as having great value.

4- Quality of life:

Canada offers some of the best living conditions and this is not just statistics. For business immigrants they like being free to do whatever they like in a open minded environment.

5- It’s fast and safe:

Applying on the business immigration category as an immigrant investor, the candidates know they will get their permanent residency. They don’t have to comply with the other very constraining requisites of the other categories ( skilled labor, entrepreneur, etc). By paying a comparatively small fee of $ 120,000 they get access to one of the best residency in the world in a relatively short time.

There are many reasons why somebody might want to immigrate to Canada using the business immigration category. We have tried to put together the top 5 reasons for doing so. We have asked many immigrant investors why they have decided to immigrate to Canada as immigrant investors. This is what they told us.

1- Education:

They wanted to provide a better education to their growing kids. They felt that Canada could offer them better options for college and universities. By immigrating to Canada they don’t have to pay the expensive fees for foreign students.

2- Security:

For immigrants coming from politically unstable countries, Canada and the Canadian citizenship provided them with one of the best safety net in case something went wrong in their country.

3- Ease of travel:

Immigrating to Canada and having a Canadian permanent resident status greatly facilitates any business travel around the world. The Canadian passport is recognized by many countries as having great value.

4- Quality of life:

Canada offers some of the best living conditions and this is not just statistics. For business immigrants they like being free to do whatever they like in a open minded environment.

5- It’s fast and safe:

Applying on the business immigration category as an immigrant investor, the candidates know they will get their permanent residency. They don’t have to comply with the other very constraining requisites of the other categories ( skilled labor, entrepreneur, etc). By paying a comparatively small fee of $ 120,000 they get access to one of the best residency in the world in a relatively short time.

Quebec has always had a different kind of relationship with immigration. It is partly because Quebec, being the only french speaking province in North America, is also strugling to find its own identity.

On the other hand Quebec knows and understand that in order to stay competitive in Canada with its aging demography the only salvation will come from a very strong immigration. But immigration is not always the easy solution, as we can see from the media circus created by the Bouchard-Taylor commission the reasonable accommodation. Immigration is not easy for Quebec but it is even more frustrating for a number of immigrants who are victims of a bipolar welcome.

On one side Quebec tells them: ” Please come to Quebec, we need inteligent and experienced workers in order to replace our old ones” and when they finally arrive, with their hopes up, Quebec says ” We are sorry, we know you have been working as a doctor all your life but here you need to go back to med school and do it all over again. But hey, in the meantime here is a book on how to better understand the culture in Quebec”.

This situation creates a series of negative effects.

• It greatly diminishes the positive impact a qualified immigration can have on Quebec’s economy
• It creates a lot of social tensions between different ethnic groups and locals
• It pushes experienced and competent immigrants to leave Quebec and settle in other provinces

Recently though we have seen in Quebec a very strong sign that those times might end soon. Three ministries are trying to come together in a joint effort to eliminate those problems and better integrate the economic immigrants with local employers.

The ministry of employment, of economic development and immigration are currently working on a new approach to tackle this recurring problem of integrating economic immigrants through work.

This is all very wishful thinking but as we have seen in the past, major changes happen very slowly if at all. Those changes in the way Quebec deals with its economic immigration are necessary and long waited for. Will the minority government in power now show enough leadership to implement those changes? Only time will tell.

Statistics Canada just released the 2006 census and there are some very interesting facts about how different cultural communities have reshaped the Canadian Demography in recent years.

In 2006, more than 5 000 000 Canadians were part of the visible minority. That number represents almost 17% of the population. The new ethnicities that are found in recent immigration waves are Gaboneese, Soudaneese, Gambian and Zambian.

In 1981 only 51% of all immigrants were part of visible minorities, in 2006 this proportion had reached 72%. For the first time South Asians have surpassed Chineese in numbers, both groups totaling each more than 1 000 000 people.

Canada has proven to be a safe haven for all minorities, visible or not from all over the world. Recent immigration waves continue to prove it. There remains large differences of immigrant distribution among the major provinces.

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