Dear Mr. Trudeau, good day!
Let me tell you a story which could shed some light on the situation with permanent huge demand of qualified specialists in your wonderful country!
To pass a long introduction, let me be a bit laconic in my story telling way.
I had a dream of moving to Canada since early 2000s, so, as for many dreamers, my story began pretty long time ago. I bet, you understand, among all the difficulties of this rough path, getting a job offer from Canadian employer willing to tackle whole the process with a candidate is one of most challenging ones. Not to mention obtaining all the needed assessments, translated documents, certificates, etc., etc.
However, the road for walking, so I managed to gather everything I needed, and I was lucky to meet a prospective employer whose interest in qualified worker was real enough to tackle the issue with hiring from abroad.
On 26th of January, 2021 I applied for a visa via my private account in Immigration and Citizenship of Canada website (application number W.......82 ). As I noticed after, all considerations, for some strange reasons, occurred in Poland's Canadian consulate.
The response I got sounded pretty strange. The officer replied:
“I am refusing your application on the following grounds:
• You were not able to demonstrate that you will be able to adequately perform the work you seek.
• You provided insufficient evidence that you meet the English language requirement.”
Nobody asked for additional information nor at least tried to contact me for explanations, although at that moment I had already had all the needed references, diplomas, certificates – to prove I meet all criteria for both working in the field applied and interaction in English speaking community.
BUT NOBODY BOTHERED TO CHECK IT, JUST REFUSED MY CANDIDATURE WITH NO CHECKING!
However, the road for walking, and I developed another application with all links to my qualification description documents and IELTS certificate, mentioned above (application number W.......94 from February 15, 2021).
I never expected getting the following response:
“I am refusing your application on the following grounds:
• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay, as stipulated in subsection 200(1) of the IRPR, based on your personal assets and financial status.
• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay, as stipulated in subsection 200(1) of the IRPR, based on your current employment situation.
• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay, as stipulated in subsection 200(1) of the IRPR, based on the limited employment prospects in your country of residence.”
Once again, I found a lot of reasons to refuse my candidature mostly consisted of speculations, not facts.
Is speculating the only way officers in Poland make their decisions?
NOBODY ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, NOBODY SUPPORTED THE DECISION WITH ANY DATA, JUST REFUSED MY CANDIDATURE WITH NO CHECKING, AGAIN.
However, the road for walking, and I gathered more documents, including supporting documentation from my prospective employer with all possible explanations and call for common sense of the civil servants.
And one more application was sent on March 4, 2021 ( application number W.......73).
The response was devastating:
- “I have concerns that you have not fulfilled the requirement put upon you by subsection 16(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act which states: 16(1) A person who makes an application must answer truthfully all questions put to them for the purpose of the examination and must produce a visa and all relevant evidence and documents that the officer reasonable requires.
Specifically, I have concerns that your employment at Strategia and Green Wood is not genuine.
Therefore, it is my belief that you have deliberately tried to mislead me...”
- “I would like to provide you with the opportunity to respond to this information. You have 10 days from the date of this letter to submit additional information in this regard.”
Once again, I was accused of misleading the officer, but nobody explained what steps I had to take to prove my honesty. I provided the officer with all the references I have, including contacts of my previous employers,
BUT NOBODY TRIED TO ENSURE MY APPLICATION HAS NO LIE, JUST REFUSED MY APPLICATION AGAIN.
However, the road for walking, and I called for additional checking of my case by sending another letter of explanation with all facts and requests for any explanations about the decisions made.
And once again, I got a devastating response, that now I'm not just allowed to enter Canada, but also I'm banned from entering the country for the following five years.
NO ADDITIONAL CHECKING, NO ATTEMPTS TO FIND OUT ANYTHING OF MY CASE, NO ATTEPMTS TO CONTACT MY EMPLOYERS (at least to try to find out some aspects of my employment).
ALL ATTITUDE I MET FROM CIC's OFFICER IN POLAND WAS BASED ON SPECULATIONS, ACCUSATIONS AND ALLEGATIONS.
I can't still understand what I was asked for all the supporting documentation for, why nobody tried to contact my previous employers to ensure my information is genuine, and why I was accused of misconduct of my employer, when all the information provided is absolutely honest. All the case looks like the intentional quest for seeking reasons for refusal from the very beginning, and all the service's performance looks just pointless hustle and bustle with papers and attempts to look busy.
By this moment I feel humiliated with all the alleged accusations from the polish officer.
I truly consider the performance of the officers both against moral values and inhuman, not to mention that the red tape created the servants is against main interest of Canada to attract high qualified specialists from all the world for Canada prosperity's sake.
Bad candidate, you think?
With true respect,
Dmitriy!
P. S.
Shortly about myself:
An ordinary family man, experienced Carpenter with Bachelor's degree in Economics (with credential assessment from Canadian university), non-smoker, alcohol abstainer, master's degree in Aikido, experienced Martial Arts instructor (as a hobby).
Open letter to prime minister of Canada Justin Pierre James Trudeau.
I see your dilemma and your concerns. Your first problem was you were applying from Poland. Poland and European countries as a whole aren't really on the listed acceptable countries for immigration list. If you were applying from Syria or Iran or something they would have given you citizenship here. The second problem is your qualifications: you are skilled and professionally qualified in a trade. The third problem is your male, white, and likely Christian belief.
I'm not being racist or discriminatory, but the Government of Canada is.
For you to move to Canada, you would need to have someone to marry here to sponsor you. Unfortunately you went through the normal channels of applying which are basically bait traps for rejection. You didn't bribe the officers looking at your case files correctly. Basically you had to tell the officers you were starting your own business in Canada and had the money to do it. They would have looked at your accounts and required a deposit to them.
It's usually around 20-50k to pay off the immigration officers.
If you had a sponsor who you were married to legally you can bypass all of this.
You might want to consider going to the US instead. Something is horribly wrong in your application to Canada.
Currently, Canadian immigration is geared towards laundering of Chinese drug money.
Immigration Canada is a joke and a disgrace.
Temporary work visas are the only way to get in and stay in. And only in specific areas.
The Government of Canada is 65% communist and it's been corrupted by China.
If you are a LMIA temporary work visa worker you have no rights. You live in fear until you get PR. You are a slave.
Warning to everyone else: unless you want to be slave labour, come through by way of sponsorship. Do not come through as labour.
It's a trap.
Only come through as a spouse. Only come through as a married person married to a Canadian.
Most other ways are going to negatively affect your life.
What an interesting response, Kenny!
Thanks a lot for your time and willingness to interact
Actually, I applied via standard online form, so I could hardly affect what country's consulate considers my case.
Regarding the rest of your story...
I could never imagine that such a wonderfully positioned country has such the terrible reality.
Are you sure we discuss Canada?)
We paid a convicted terrorist 10 million dollars for being imprisoned and unfairly treated by the US. We classify terrorist attacks as bare nominal and we issue hand guns to convicted felons. If that's not ridiculous enough, over 65 churches burned across Canada and it was “understandable” and one Mosque had a graffiti attack on it in Windsor Ontario and it was a hate crime.
65% of the population supports communism.
38% is totally against all this but powerless to stop it.
Our own military ran a propaganda campaign against its own people and the government of Canada accepted that it commits genocide occasionally.
I can't even make this up.
Quebec legalized racism and bigotry and forbids people from displaying their religion in public.
BC believes money laundering is okay and proceeds of crime are okay.
The Canadian Citizenship and Immigration is completely corrupt and 90% of all tax money is used against the citizens directly.
Yeah, it's really ugly.
Kenny...
I feel perplexed. I never expected hearing such things of Canada.
And what about opportunities for hardworking people in Canada? Myth?
There are opportunities for hardworking people for sure! But if you aren't fluent in English or Quebec French and your degrees are not recognized, how far can you go?
The most sought after employees are for jobs that start at 15 dollars an hour. Let's do the math!
Your accommodations are around 1200-1500 a month. Your transportation is say 400 a month. Your budget for food is say 400 a month.
That's 2300 to just be here per month. If you can manage to find an employer that can pay you 25 plus per hour, and actually pay you…not promise pay and not pay, you could make around 4k a month after taxes. Oh yeah! Your taxes are starting at 22%!
And they are going up!
Cabinet Makers with decades of experience make 18 dollars an hour.
Carpenters worth anything group services together and go in for sales bundles because most line items won't make showing up to work worthwhile unless you can make profit.
It's really really complicated here because a lot of people are crooked.
We have institutionalized criminal activity as a normal activity so unless this changes, how are normal hard working people supposed to get by when holding so much risk, so much exposure to so many hardships?
Marry a Canadian first! Visit Canada on a visitor visa, specifically visit where you want to immigrate to, be a tourist and talk to everyone.
Canvas potential employers for setting up later, find leads to meet singles in that area. Go out and have fun, try to meet other singles like yourself in the pubs or bars or wherever! After you meet someone (guy or girl it doesn't matter) you can begin planning your next trip. That one will be for a work visa and you will have a strong sense of who to work for.
If you already met a potential employer they may help with the paperwork for the LMIA.
Overall it's really important to have someone to partner up with just in case things go sideways.
It's really scary.
I sponsored an Indonesian woman and it was a very scary process.
Even the lawyers weren't straightforward with us and we paid them 10k as a retainer fee.
We got through the process but ultimately it was no thanks to the Government or our lawyers or her employer.
I got us through the process and our relationship ended in divorce after anyway.
If you are independently wealthy and have a lot of wealth to back you the easier way is to apply to start a business here. It's really an express route to LMIA and then PR.
By circumventing the LMIA altogether with a business your risk profile is reduced and it's a lot easier to obtain PR.
They reward the rich and they exploit the weak.
This is the underlying truth of Canada. We practice slavery but it's cleaner with aprons and fancy rules and dressed up to look proper. Under it all is a large group of financially exploited people who don't have a voice and you will never hear of them spoken about and they will never talk about what they are going through because to do so would risk losing everything.
There are smart ways to work in Canada and stupid ways.
Plus there are other dangers that I haven't even touched on but they are there.
I think it requires a lot of careful planning and research. If you can get over the mine fields the health care is okay, clean water is good, the laws are reasonably stable and if you can stomach snow and depression for 6 months of the year it's a cake walk.
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