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Hello Sharon/Roy and others,
Today i heard about H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS)in Alberta..
Can you point out the advantages in this program than usual Canadian PR under Skilled Worker category?
Your replies would help me to take the decision on this.... Thanks in advance.
Thanks
seljem
[15-08-2008,21:32]
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seljem |
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(in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Alberta, Canada Welcomes H-1B Visa Holders and Their Families While the U.S. Rejects them
This time the U.S. government has really missed the boat. No, I?m not talking about our failed policy in Iraq, the gas crisis, the mortgage crisis made even worse by fact that Freddie and Fannie Mae need a federal bailout when the federal government doesn?t have any money because we?re operating under major deficit spending or the fact that most Americans feel hopeless and helpless as America is losing its economic power worldwide and the average American is struggling to survive. Instead, I?m talking about how our country, in desperate need of highly skilled foreign professionals, many of whom were educated here, has chosen to reject them rather than raise the immigrant quotas to correspond with market need. Our neighbor, Alberta, Canada, is correctly seeking to capitalize on this pool of talented professionals who have had it with the U.S. immigration system?with quotas that create waiting lists that seem to span a lifetime.
Witness the advertisements that appeared last week in our local newspapers as well as in other major newspapers throughout the U.S. They began as follows:
Alberta, Canada Welcomes H-1B Visa Holders and Their Families. Work Here. Live Here.
Are you currently working in the United States in a temporary skilled worker visa category?
You may be eligible to qualify for Canadian Permanent Residency through the Strategic Recruitment Stream pilot program recently introduced by the Alberta Provincial Nominee Program (PNP).
To qualify for this pilot program, you must meet the following basic criteria:
1. You must be currently working in the United States in one of the following temporary skilled worker visa categories: H-1B, H1-B1, H-1C, E-3
2. You must have a minimum of one year of work experience in the United States in one of the qualifying visa categories listed above.
3. Your occupation must be on the Regional Occupations Under Pressure list for Alberta.
Why would U.S. H-1B holders seek to ?defect?? to our northern neighbor and why would Alberta, Canada seek to do this? You only have to look at the current waiting lists for these skilled professionals under the employment based categories of EB2 and EB3 to have your answer: H-1B immigrants, especially those from India and China, can wait up to 6 years for a ?green card? and the security that it brings. After a while, these prospective immigrants and H-1B holders start to grow weary of the temporary nature of their status and sometimes are just ready to throw in the towel. However, many don?t want to go home for a variety of reasons. The U.S., rather than raising quotas, has firmly stuck to an annual 140,000 visas for employment immigrants. That quota includes their family members and hence makes many fewer than 140,000 visas available each year for employment based foreign nationals seeking to immigrate to the U.S.
Enter Canada and go backwards in time to several years ago, when Hong Kong was about to revert to China. Vancouver, Canada decided that there were many Hong Kong professionals with great financial resources who would be thrilled at a chance to immigrate to Canada. Vancouver offered the equivalent of ?green cards???landed immigrant status? to these individuals and as a result they pumped billions of dollars into the Vancouver economy.
Fast forward to 2008 and enter Alberta, hoping to capitalize on the great professional skills and business creation potential the poorly treated U.S H-1B workers represent. Can you blame them? Absolutely not. Can you blame the U.S. for allowing these critical professionals to defect? Absolutely. Ask yourself: Would you choose to live in long term insecurity in the U.S. if you had another option? Probably not.
Given Alberta?s aggressive recruitment of ?our? H-1B workers, expect to see a mass defection---until and unless U.S. Immigration laws open up quotas for much-needed professionals. If ever there were a wake-up call for our Congress, embroiled in election politics, that immigration reform should and must be a priority, this is it.
http://www.pontealdia.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=626
[15-08-2008,22:17]
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Anonymous |
(in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Good point, it may be be wise for them who are frustrated with the lengthy US GC process to seek opportunities somewhere else.
Though, the question comes to my mind, what´s the special benefit or advantages the will get comparing the usual Professional class PR? My understanding is, most of the H1-B holders there should easily qualify for the usual Canadian immigration. In other words, they should´ve started migrating to Alberta before this new propaganda.
So, probability of "mass defection" may be not closer. As a matter of fact, now a days most of the Indian/Chinese H1-B workers keep Canadian immigration also as a Plan B. MOst of them when get the US GC in hanf just forget their Canadian PR status.
Though sincerely I would be glad to see some defection to give some jolt to the US immigration to raise the work based GC quota.
[16-08-2008,00:09]
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DC |
(in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
I think it is about time people have to their senses and realized that the US is a dead dog, on account of that succinct list of existing conditions listed at the top of the second post in this thread. We are waiting to hear from China (from areas like Shinzen) that they are ready to launch their own brand of electronics. Once that happens, it is going to send shivers down the US spine. They might never regain the level of control they enjoyed until recently. Anyways, it is time for Americans to sit tight and find out how many decades it will take them to gain a meaningful handle on their debt situations and economic lows. Meanwhile, PNP is faster than skilled immigrant applications. Also, while your PNP goes through, you are already in Alberta working and living. By the time the PR concludes, you will have more or less settled in workplace and planning better thing profession-wise. So this program is definitely better than applying from outside. I hope the experienced Asian workers in oil and gem technologies find their way to Alberta and get those industries going.
[16-08-2008,13:04]
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Helper |
(in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
"Also, while your PNP goes through, you are already in Alberta working and living". Could you please elaborate more on this statement. Can you just get a temporarily visa or landed status just by applying to PNP under this new program?
While it is wonderful to hear what you are saying, it would be better to know the how since Canada is also known to be hard place to find jobs. Just as an example you can just apply to several online jobs ,Alberta specifically, but the replies you get are not so many as you would expect for a place that is craving for skill workers...
[22-08-2008,13:06]
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Anonymous |
Alberta PNP program (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Hi,
I hold an H1B and is interested for Alberta´s PNP immigration
program. Please give all relevant contacts.
Thanks,
Sandhya
[22-03-2009,19:20]
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SANDHYA DIVAKARAN |
H1 B people for Canada Immigrataion (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Have a question. After H1B people file Canada Immrigration do they need to stay in USA till they get the result or can they be out of USA..... please give me more info on this.
[15-04-2009,23:42]
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Roshan |
RE: Alberta Canada immigration (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Hello,
I currently hold an H1 B visa in the United States as Special Education Teacher. I am 44 years old. My current teaching credential qualifies me to teach kindergarten through 12th grade students with disabilities. I came to the US as Exchange teacher in 2005 and worked for three years as J1 teacher until I was granted an H1 B visa last year. This is practically my 4th year of teaching in California.
I was wondering if my work experience would qualify me to seek immigration to Alberta Canada. I would be happy to hear from you. And hope to fulfill my dream to immigrate to Canada in the near future.
Thank you,
Luisa Regalado
[09-05-2009,19:36]
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Luisa Regalado |
H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
I am currently in US on H1B visa. My H1B visa expires in October. Do tell me if I can still be eligible for this program? How long does this process take? What is the assurance/guarantee on my getting through the Canadian Immigration process? How does the entire thing work? Does this also allow my dependent wife who is on H4 visa in US also to work? Once I file and my existing H1B expires, what happens. I either way have to move out of US. So what is the best option I have.
Email me at sujay_kelvin@yahoo.com.
[16-06-2009,10:29]
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SUJAY SARKAR |
H1B SRS PNP (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Please make sure that you meet following condiitons
Be on h1b for last a year
Must be working under pressured list NOC
Please www.albertacanada.com
Must be currently working on H1B means status should be valid
[19-07-2009,20:14]
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Steve Westberg |
Am not a manager ,but H1B holder can I apply for canada immigration (in reply to: H1B Strategic Recruitment Stream (H1B SRS))
Hi
Am on H1B for last 4 yrs.
Am an computer engineer and not a manager .
can I apply for canada immigration?
Pls let me know
[23-07-2009,18:42]
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Venkat |
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