Tuesday 11 November 2014

Amendments To Canada's Caregiver Scheme Praised But Measures Still Required, Claim Observers

Sometime back, the current Immigration Minister of Canada reportedly proclaimed some improvements to the nation’s live-in caregiver plan. These will allegedly make the lives of foreign caregivers better, and more swiftly smooth the progress of their prized and mush sought after Canadian citizenship.

Even as the amendments are welcome, it cannot be denied that there is a pressing need of some improvements, opine some observers. For instance, the administration would do well to increase the pace of the procedure for the initial admission of caregivers to the Maple Leaf Country, to more speedily offer care and support to the Canadian families.

For several decades now, the caregiver immigration scheme has permitted the nationals to usher-in caregivers from out-of-the-country to care for their family members. The continuation of the plan is crucial for the nationals in need of elder care, child care, and assistance for sick relatives.

Corridor to PR

Allegedly, the most noteworthy improvement made to the caregiver scheme is the removal of the condition that caregivers reside at the homes of their recruiters/job-providers, for two years, prior to they become entitled to submit an application for PR.

Many years ago, the prerequisite was introduced as it was opined then that people in need of care required a live-in caregiver. Irrespective of the live-in necessity under the previous scheme, caregivers were just agreement-bound to do job on a permanent basis, for nearly 40 hours every week.

Since caregivers were absolutely free to leave their recruiter’s house on weekends and post work hours, necessitating them to stay with their recruiters/job-providers hardly made any practical sense. But via improving the scheme to enable caregivers to reside wherever they want these professionals will presently enjoy parallel freedoms enjoyed by almost every other employee in the nation. An additional vital change is that caregivers will presently have a lane to PR inside just 6 months, post they successfully conclude their two-year work condition.

Over the past couple of years, a major backlog in the petitions has been noticed even as the Canadian immigration minister has accepted that in some specific circumstances, caregivers had to cool their heels for over 8 eight years, prior to sanction was given to their petitions for PR status.

Neglected Childhood

The extended processing times for caregivers denoted that some caregivers had to live away from their families for as many as 10 years. And some caregivers with young kids had to miss their kids’ whole early days. The immigration minister has accepted that the long wait for PR generated an irony where while caregivers were assisting Canadian families thanks to these lengthy durations of living away their own families were collapsing. The swifter and expected processing that the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has pledged ought to improve the situation and positively address the issue, it is claimed.

Source: http://www.abhinav.com/news/amendments-to-canadas-caregiver-scheme-praised-measures-still-required.aspx

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