Is Canada “stealing talent from Uncle Sam?“

Ayon sa kamakailang Maclean ng artikulo:

Bawat taon, a wave of foreign-born employees in the U.S. exhausts ang ikaanim at huling taon ng work visas known as H-1Bs—documents created for companies who can’t find homegrown talent to fill certain jobs…

It is these workers Ottawa has been targeting, and its efforts appear to be paying off. Sa panahon mula sa 1998 sa 2008, the number of skilled workers coming into the country from the United States more than doubled, mula sa 1,969 sa 4,085.

Can’t work in the U.S.? Magkaroon sa Canadisang, say companies such as Microsoft, kung saan “last year opened a 70,000-sq.-foot ‘development centre‘ in the Vancouver suburb of Richmond sa bahay 300 workers hailing from more than 40 different countries. Many have ‘immigration challenges’ preventing them from working in the U.S…,” Maclean ng nagpapaliwanag.

At ang U.S. economy continuing to be in the doldrums, it could be not only a shortage of visas, but also “…a shortage of work in the U.S… driving these U.S. castaways north.”

Read the entire article here.

At magtanong sa Citizenship at Immigration Canada for more information about applying for Canadian skilled worker status.

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