The Hospitality Sector Pilot Project of the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program lets the province nominate those foreign workers to be engaged in occupations in hospitality sector who are currently working in Saskatchewan for a minimum of six months on a temporary work permit. The applicants must be holding a valid Canadian Temporary Work Permit for one of the below mentioned occupations:

• Food or Beverage Server
• Food Counter Attendant or Kitchen Helper
• Housekeeping or Cleaning Staff

In other words, to be eligible to apply for this category, prospective applicants must start working in the Canadian province for an employer that has been recognized by the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program. For this they need to obtain a temporary foreign work permit from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada. If the employer with whom an applicant is working offers a permanent regular employment offer, after six months of minimum working period, then the latter can apply for the PR status with the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program.

Apart from working in any of the above mentioned occupations, applicants are also required to fulfill the following criteria:

• Saskatchewan employers must have employed them in one of the above mentioned positions for a minimum period of 6 months.
• Applicants must be educated up to Grade 12, in least.
• Applicants must possess the required knowledge of English language in order to be eligible for the Saskatchewan employment.

For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

Through the Family Members category of the SINP, immigrants living Saskatchewan can help their family member(s), who is skilled and wants to immigrate, live and work in Saskatchewan. In other words, to be eligible to qualify for this category, international skilled workers must have a family member in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, who possesses the Canadian citizenship/PR status. Besides, the family member must have been residing in the province for a minimum period of twelve months.

Eligible family members who can help international skilled workers to immigrate and work in Saskatchewan include:

• Parents
• Siblings
• Children
• Grandparents
• Aunts/uncles
• Nieces/nephews
• First cousins
• Step-family members
• In-laws

Below are some of the eligibility criteria for the applicants of the Family Members category:

• The age of applicants must be between 18-49 years.
• Applicants must have a signed written document which serves as the evidence of support from their family member(s) living in the province of Saskatchewan.
• Applicants must have completed at least one year of post-secondary education, training or apprenticeship. They must possess a diploma; a certificate or a degree for the completion of the educational program.
• Applicants must have a minimum period of 1 year work experience in the field of their education or training.
• Applicants must have proficiency in English language to be employed in Saskatchewan.
• Applicants must possess a permanent, regular employment offer from a Saskatchewan local employer.

For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

Raising English language standard for the nurses intending to immigrate to Australia has left nurses from India in a state of limbo. Also, a decision has been made to deport all those nurses’ applicants who have exceeded their visa durations if they fail to fulfill the English language requirement decked with the same. It has further raised concerns. The decision would surely affect the number of nurses intending to work in the land of Kangaroos in the upcoming future.

According to the mandates set by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, it has been speculated that the future of all those nurses would be left in a state of confinement provided they fail to perform in accordance with the standards set for level seven.

It is mandatory that these nurses should hold a proper conversation, both verbally and in writing, if they have communicate and understand their patients and discuss issues with other health care professionals. The same has been confirmed by Nursing and Midwifery Board. It further added that one of its roles is to protect the public.

Some protests have been witnessed against the raised standards in the recent times. Some of them are claiming that they have not been informed about this sudden change in the rules and regulations. Now they are worried about their future. A majority of student nurses are from India, China and Thailand.

Some of them have gone though tough financial conditions to apply for the enrolment, but now they are finding themselves in uncertainty.

The British Columbia PNP requires nurses to be registered with the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses in BC in order to be able to practice as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse in the province. Basic registration requirements for these professionals include:

Unregistered psychiatric nurses must apply to the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses in order to be evaluated for registration eligibility. Below are a few application requirements:

• The applicant must hold a diploma in psychiatric nursing. A graduate or an undergraduate degree in the same is also acceptable.
• The applicant may also hold a general nursing diploma. An advanced diploma or graduate, as well an undergraduate in psychiatric nursing are accepted as well.
• Applicants who belong to non-English speaking nations must produce evidence of their proficiency in English language.
• Applicants must produce the proof of the completion of registration exam in Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia, or Saskatchewan.
• Character certificate.
• Proof of fulfilling the requirement of 1400 hours of minimum practice hours over the recent 5 years.

By now, it is clear that psychiatric nurses who are the practicing health professionals in the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses are termed as registered psychiatric nurses in British Columbia. A applicant is required to fulfill the requirement of either becoming a practicing CRPNBC member or must possess an Interim Practice Permit (while the applicant awaits for the completion of practicing requirements for the registration) in order to practice as a psychiatric nurse in the province of British Columbia. The CRPNBC is responsible for the issuance of the permit to nurses who have been evaluated by the suitable regulatory body to work as a psychiatric nurse in the province. For more information, contact an Immigration and Visa Consultant!

According to a research conducted by the Massey University, many immigrants from Korea are converting to Christianity in order to improve their business and social lives. Of the 31,000 Koreans who are in New Zealand, almost 90% of them attend the church regularly. This is despite the fact that Buddhism is the main religion in South Korean. And only one-fifth of the population consists of Christians.

Those attending the churches are doing so for religious reasons as well as to develop their network for business prospects apart from getting information and support. This is because many Koreans tend to face many issues pertaining to settlement, with difficult in English language which makes it difficult for them to be accepted by the local people.

20 Korean employers and 20 employees were interviewed where in it was found that around 75% admitted to being subject to some form of discrimination. According to one of the respondents, may customers tell them to go back to their nation. More so, teenagers on the streets spit and swear at them.

Since these people are comparatively earning less to what they were earning in South Korea, this also means that they cannot afford the same lifestyle that they were accustomed to in South Korea. At the same time, the expenses are very high.

Between the years 1986 and 1996, Koreans were the fastest growing community amongst the Asians. The numbers rose from mere 400 to 12,653. During the last Census, it was found out the Koreans consisted of 30,792. Most of these reside at the North Shore of Auckland.

English language schools in Britain have finally got the response in their favor from the court over opposing the UK government’s stricter visa regulations for international students which require them to have a good standard of English before entering the UK. In other words, the UK’s Labor government (previous) has set the regulation that overseas students who want to take up English language courses in Britain are required to have a standard proficiency of the language before they enter the nation for the courses. This is the rule opposed by many English language education providers, who think the rule is absurd and it is a threat to the businesses.

The UK’s language teaching association, English UK took the initiative to challenge the new rule, on a legal field, which is believed to have tightened by then Home Secretary Alan Johnson as part of the plan to discourage illegal immigration. But, the English UK opposed the rule, saying that the decision to have such a regulation is wrong on the part of government without mentioning it in the Parliament.

Finally the High Court Judge declared that the Labor Home Secretary should not have introduced the regulations that prevent the foreign aspirants from entering the UK for their English courses study. The English UK group is quite satisfied about the Judge’s decision.

English UK is constituted of 440 language schools across the United Kingdom. They found it very ridiculous that government wanted overseas students to have minimum of GCSE level of English proficiency before they enter the nation to study ‘English’. The association believes the Judge’s decision will help businesses as well as the UK economy to evolve, keeping the fact in mind that English language sector accounts for almost 1.5 billion euro of the foreign earnings per year.

After United Kingdom, it is time for Canada to put limit on immigration numbers! Yes, Canada has decided to cap the number of immigrants that enter the country. The country’s immigration department is all set to consider only a total number of 20,000 immigration applications under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (pints-based). The cap will be reached for the year till June 2011.

While announcing the cap, the Canadian immigration minister said that the country hopes to recover the economy with the implementation of the change. The department is trying to adjust this year’s immigration plan in order to make the country’s economy recover.

Alongside, there are also changes to the Canadian favored skills list. As part of the changes, the immigration department has eliminated a few job titles from the list, including financial managers, mining engineers, university professors and occupational therapists. Some job titles have been included to the list. They are- architects, pharmacists, dentists and social workers. The limited number of applications that will be considered by Immigration Canada under this scheme is going to be 1000 for each occupation.

Apart from this, the immigration department has set stricter language requirements for new immigrants. People who are going to apply for a Canadian visa will be required to show the results of an English/French language test which they have taken up on their petition. This will facilitate the immigration officials to assess the true abilities of the applicants. Earlier, applicants applying for immigration to Canada were just required to provide the immigration department with a written submission, when it was found that some applicants used another person’s writing sample, making it harder for the authorities to determine the true language ability of the applicants. With the new language requirement, the immigration department hopes to attract the right candidates to the country.

While many countries are making their immigration rules and regulations flexible pertaining to people who want to immigrate to accompany their spouses, United Kingdom is just doing what seems to be contrary to the above scenario. The nation is trying to make the immigration rules stringent for prospective brides/grooms in India and Pakistan. The UK government is intending to introduce an English language test which would become mandatory for everyone in these countries to be able to join their spouses who are living in the UK.

The UK government’s intentions have already led many people criticize its move towards having the language test for the spouses. UK boasts large communities of Indians and Pakistanis and they have been an integral part of the British economy. The government’s aim to introduce such a regulation is a matter of concern for these communities since it would appear as hurdle in marriages for their children who would be making relationships with partners in their home countries.

If the move comes across as legislation in the UK, it is likely to create tensions between the UK government and the governments of the India and Pakistan. The government’s proposal to make the English language test compulsory for spouses who wish to join their partners in the UK seems to be a measure of the new Coalition government to have a check on the immigration level to the nation. The move has already been criticized as a racist approach, complete disappointment and sheer violation of basic human rights.

If the move passed on to as law, it would not applicable for people from European countries. It is most likely to bring obstacles for people who are immigrating from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The UK, even today requires people from non-English speaking nations to take up an English language test. But, the new move does not raise the question of immigration being harder, but raises the debate over the legitimacy of the new regulation. The UK government’s new rule is likely to conveying the message to the outsiders that ‘you are free to marry anyone, as long as they are educated and to some extent rich’.

According to critics and student visa experts, it has been speculated that raising the level of proficiency required in the English language for the student visa application, may result into stamping out a blooming educational sector of the country.

Reports say that the students who intend to come to the country for the purpose of learning English for the preparation to get enrolled in a study education in the UK can decline by a huge margin of tens of thousands, courtesy the stringent UK visa rules which are implemented for the purpose of curbing down the intake of undocumented students.

Rules announced by home secretary Alan Johnson are expected to be implemented anytime within the next few days. It states that those students who have attained the lower-intermediate proficiency in the English language would be allowed to file their application for the student visa. At present the mandate which is set to qualify is “Beginner Level.”

After the rules would be implemented, students would have to prove their proficiency in accordance with the new amendments, proving that they are at the new level by showing the right proof of their English tests along with making their applications. As a result, there are chances that there are chances of curbing down the rights if student applicants as well as their dependents to get employment in the UK while they are enrolled in the various educational institutions.

He said that he wants the entry of authentic students in the country.

In recent news, Australia has recently denied entry to the Indian lawn bowls team, making it impossible for them to take part in practice sessions. The team was to head towards the Common Wealth Games after going for ample practice in Sydney, but after the denial, the team would suffer a lot due to the lack of practice sessions.

The main reason given for the denial that Australia thinks the team would serve as “flight risks” and hence have been barred with their visas. It is not the first time; the Indians have faced a ban or visa forbid of this sort. This is the second occasion where the team has been barred a visa. Of course, the reasons have been different every single time.

Critics are not at all happy with this move, according to team’s coach Richard Gale, this incident shows the ultimate example of Indians being whacked by the Australian government. The irony here is that the coach is an Australian by origin.

The coach went on to say that the players got an easy entry to nations like China, but why is that they have to face certain conditions when it comes to Australia. Why these players who have no many and don’t attire a proficiency in the English language had to face certain bad conditions in an alien land.

Saying harsh words against Australia, the coach said that Australian bowls team took part in a championship in Delhi, but when it comes to the Indian team; it was hypocritical of the land of Kangaroos to show such behavior.

*For those who don’t know, Lawn bowl is an extremely popular sport in Australia. Gradually it is gaining its popularity amongst other nations as well. It is a lawn game where the player’s motto is to roll asymmetric balls, known as bowls, so that they can stop them adjacent to a white bowl called “kitty.” Bowls are played as an outdoor game. But sometimes, indoor games are also played, in accordance with the surface and availability if synthetic grounds.