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IMMIGRATION
Minister Kenney Hits the reset button:
sets the Foundation for new, faster,
more flexible Immigration System
Citizenship, Immigration and
Multiculturalism Minister
Jason Kenney announced the
latest step in re-designing
Canada’s economic immigration
system.
Effective July 1st, 2012,
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
will place a temporary pause on new
applications to the Federal Skilled
Worker Program (FSWP) and federal
Immigrant Investor Program (IIP).
“We have been making lots of
changes to our economic immigration
system,” said Minister Kenney.
“We will take the next six months to
do a lot of the heavy lifting to get us
closer to a fast and flexible immigration
system.”
The pause will allow CIC to
make important changes to its economic
immigration programs before
accepting more applications. This is
an important step in moving towards
a faster, more flexible immigration
system, while immigration levels are
at a historic high.
Since the launch of Canada’s
Economic Action Plan 2012,
Minister Kenney has announced a
series of changes to CIC’s economic
immigration programs. They
include:
• eliminating the backlog of old
FSWP applications;
• improving the selection of FSWs;
• creating a new Federal Skilled
Trades Program;
• modifying the Canadian
Experience Class to help transition
successful skilled temporary workers
to permanent residence;
• changing business immigration
programs to target more active
investment in Canadian growth companies
and more innovative entrepreneurs;
and
• moving towards a new application
management system, to develop a
pool of skilled workers who arrive in
Canada ready to begin employment.
“This temporary pause on new
Federal Skilled Worker applications
will allow us to set the program on a
new course as we intend to launch
revised selection criteria soon,” said
Minister Kenney. “The pause has no
impact on the number of workers
Canada admits into the country, as
CIC continues to process applications
already received. Current
immigration remains at historically
high levels.”
Application intake is expected to
resume in January 2013, when the
proposed FSWP regulatory changes
– which will be published in the
Canada Gazette in the coming
months – are expected to come into
force.
The Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act allows the Minister to
issue special instructions to immigration
officers to enable the
Government of Canada to best attain
its immigration goals. Since the 2008
Action Plan for Faster Immigration,
four sets of “Ministerial
Instructions” have been issued relating
to Economic Class applications.
Under this fifth set of Ministerial
Instructions, CIC will also introduce
a pause on new federal IIP applications.
This pause will remain in place
until further notice, allowing the
Department to make progress on processing
its existing inventory.
As Minister Kenney announced
earlier in April, CIC will be consulting
with provinces, territories and
stakeholders on ways to reform the
current IIP in order to maximize the
economic benefit to Canada. The
Department is also consulting on
whether to create a new investor program
on a short-term basis, to promote
growth in the Canadian economy.
The temporary pause on FSWP
applications does not apply to candidates
with offers of arranged
employment or those applying under
the PhD eligibility stream. The full
set of Ministerial Instructions will be
available online in the Canada
Gazette tomorrow.
1 de julho também
é Dia da Madeira
ODia da
Região
Autónoma da
Madeira e das
Comunidades
Madeirenses, ou simplesmente
Dia da
Madeira é celebrado
a 1 de Julho e
comemora a autonomia
que Portugal
concedeu à Região
Autónoma da
Madeira na
Constituição
Portuguesa de 1976.
O feriado é assinalado
em toda a Região com
lançamentos de foguetes e
girândolas de fogo, cerimónia
na Assembleia
Legislativa Regional,
deposição de flores na
Estátua da Autonomia pelas
entidades oficiais da Região
e o Te Deum na Sé do
Funchal. Embora seja
comemorado oficialmente
só na Madeira, os cidadãos
e imigrantes madeirenses
comemoram-no no mundo
inteiro. Dia da Região
Autónoma da Madeira, data
possível da sua descoberta
em 1419 por João
Gonçalves Zarco e Tristão
Vaz Teixeira, um ano depois
do Porto Santo. O
Arquipélago da Madeira é
composto pelas ilhas da
Madeira (740,7km2, Porto
Santo (42,5 km2), Desertas
(14,2 km2) e Selvagens (3,6
km2).
A Ilha da Madeira
tornou-se autónoma depois
do 25 de abril de 1974.
MADEIRA
Esta Ilha tem 55 km de
comprimento e 24 km de
largura. Está situada no
Oceano Atlântico a 980 km
de Lisboa e a 600 km da
Costa Africana. Nela existem
11 Concelhos /
Municípios.
O Pico Ruivo é o pico
mais elevado com 1862 m,
o Paul da Serra um planalto
com 1300 - 1500m e o Cabo
Girão é uma das falésias
mais altas do mundo.
A população desta Ilha
ultrapassa os 260000 habitantes,
sendo metade da
população no Funchal.