Beijing Time, July 1, 2011, 5:00 AM
Local Time, July 1, 2011, 8:00 AM
In Sydney, a quiet town in Nova Scotia, Canada, a long queue had formed early in the morning outside the mailroom of the immigration processing center. It was the first day of the new Canadian federal investment immigration policy, and many immigration agencies had rushed there early to submit their clients' application materials, hoping to catch the "last train" before the new policy took effect. The colleague sent by Worldway Group to deliver the application materials had arrived in Sydney a day early, securing a front-of-the-line position alongside employees from the courier company the firm partners with.
At 8:00 AM Canadian time, a large crowd had already gathered at the Canadian immigration processing center in Sydney, all there to submit application materials for Canadian federal immigration clients. On July 1, the Canadian federal government announced a new policy: from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, only 700 applications would be accepted globally. Once 700 applications were received, the Federal Immigration Department would stop accepting further submissions; any applications submitted thereafter would be returned, and applicants would have to wait until the program reopened on July 1, 2012. The global cap of "700" meant that federal immigration spots were extremely scarce. Acting with responsibility toward its clients, Worldway Group sent a colleague to fly to Sydney the day before the policy was announced. As soon as the doors to the immigration processing center's mailroom opened on the morning of the announcement, the clients' application materials were submitted immediately.
The Worldway Group Canada department team, after several days of overtime, finally finished preparing all client materials before the new policy was announced. The successful submission that day was a great encouragement to the entire Worldway team; their hard work paid off, successfully helping clients catch the "last train" before the new policy was implemented. The colleague sent to Sydney to deliver the materials remarked happily upon returning, "It's a good thing we went early. With the 2nd and 3rd being local holidays and the new policy taking effect on the 4th, looking at how many companies are lined up now, if we had gone to submit the applications on the 4th, the 700 spots might have been filled within an hour."
A scene of the busy staff captured on-site by the Worldway colleague who flew to Sydney
