Canada ImmigrationLatest news, according to the Ming Pao of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada has ruled that the Immigration Department must respond to the delays in investment immigration applications, with a hearing scheduled for December 17 at the Federal Court in Toronto.
The lawyer representing the original plaintiffs stated that there were originally 7 plaintiffs in this lawsuit, including 5 from China, 1 from London, United Kingdom, and 1 from Vienna, Austria. As the Immigration Department has recently begun processing one of the Chinese applicants and has also completed the processing of another Austrian applicant, the number of plaintiffs has been reduced to only 5.
The lawyer estimates that this is the Immigration Department's attempt to quickly process the applications of these plaintiffs before the hearing to avoid greater losses in court. He pointed out that in addition to the aforementioned 5 original plaintiffs, there are currently another 72 individuals worldwide who have submitted court litigation applications, of which 65 are from Chinese applicants, but almost all Chinese applications have now been transferred to the office in Hong Kong. The ruling after the court hearing will affect approximately 21,000 similar cases globally, of which about 17,000 are from the Hong Kong office.
According to the current processing pace, for Canadian investment immigration applications from Hong Kong and Beijing submitted on June 14, 2010, it is estimated that it will take 10 and a half years to be processed. The plaintiffs request that the Immigration Department of the Canadian federal government immediately process the applications and not handle the backlog of skilled immigration cases like last year, where all were invalidated in a one-size-fits-all approach. The judge's previous decision on immigration litigation was that the court could not interfere with the decisions of the Immigration Department, but now the court has accepted the relevant litigation, which means that the previous decision will not be repeated.
