Immigration Wait Times In Canada Growing

A dependent child whose file is dealt with by Canadian officials in Beijing, Seoul or Ankara, for instance, has an 80 per cent chance of being processed within four months. But a child's average wait time is 13 months in Singapore, 19 months in Guatemala and 34 months in Cairo. Similar disparities occur in the skilled workers category. A skilled worker could expect to be processed within 14 months in Lima and 15 months in Paris but would likely wait up to 71 months in Kyiv. "There's no excuse for discrimination," said Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis. "Why are we not looking at people as people?. . . Things should move at the same length of time - whether it's from Greece, from Europe, from south Asia, or from China." Karygiannis obtained the figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada through the Access to Information Act. ... http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080210/national/immigration_lists

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