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Canada Pauses Federal Immigrant Investor Program June 28, EB-5 Demand Surges
Folks, I am in Beijing and yesterday’s news is the talk of the town: the Canadian Federal Immigrant Investor Program, which is being revamped, has been paused for at LEAST the rest of this year. The full press release is below but here’s what it means for EB-5:
· There are thousands of applicants in the Far East who were awaiting the announcement based on much speculation that additional IIP visas would be released. Many of these have begun fund transfers and many of these are in the safes of Chinese migration agents who are, to use the medical term, totally freaking out.
· While the majority of these folks will hold out for the new Canadian national program and others will filter to less desirable Canadian provincial programs with more strings, the opportunity to segue a good number of these folks into EB-5 is there.
We will be doing our best on the latter point to close out the last remaining Lake Point Capital Partners slots this coming week in Vietnam, so any of you still kickin’ the rock mine tires should get busy and commit…(-:
Government of Canada Press Release:
Minister Kenney Hits the Reset Button: Sets the Foundation for New, Faster, More Flexible Immigration System – June 28, 2012
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today announced the latest step in re-designing Canada’s economic immigration system.
Effective from July 1, 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.
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