Canada's immigration system is built around the immigrant as a person. The US immigration system is built in the colonialism mindset, where the immigrant must fill a need of a US actor - a company (Employment-based), or a US citizen (family-based).
What?! You literally cannot emigrate to Canada if you don't either go through the super harsh pointing system or fill a specific labor need. In both cases, the intent is very clearly to only allow in people who will be economically productive for Canadian companies. Good luck immigrating without a degree or without a contract.
Even sponsorship/spousal immigration is super unforgiving, since you are on the hook for any money the state ends up spending on the people you bring in, especially if it's social spending.
The only real exception is refugees but we send tons of them back and don't take anywhere close to the same amount of illegal immigrants as the US does. We also have agricultural labor immigration but again, it's nothing but Canada wanting cheap labor since they have to go back at the end of the summer with almost 0 exceptions.
But your feeling is pretty widespread here, Canadians really like to think way way too highly of ourselves especially on immigration. When keep in mind, if your refugee status gets denied here you are almost assured to be deported, which is not the case in the US. In that regards the Canadian immigration policy is much more colonial and centered around a transactional relationship, which is also somewhat the case in the US but at least they have the very humane lottery system, DACA, etc.
The points system for immigration is intended to allow in people who will be economically productive. Not for specific companies. This applies in Australia as well.
That's the difference. The focus is on the community contribution, not a specific company's requirements.
In Australia we have the equivalent of H1B (457) visas that are "sponsored" by an employer. That's separate to individual immigration visas.
mardifoufs|4 years ago
Even sponsorship/spousal immigration is super unforgiving, since you are on the hook for any money the state ends up spending on the people you bring in, especially if it's social spending.
The only real exception is refugees but we send tons of them back and don't take anywhere close to the same amount of illegal immigrants as the US does. We also have agricultural labor immigration but again, it's nothing but Canada wanting cheap labor since they have to go back at the end of the summer with almost 0 exceptions.
But your feeling is pretty widespread here, Canadians really like to think way way too highly of ourselves especially on immigration. When keep in mind, if your refugee status gets denied here you are almost assured to be deported, which is not the case in the US. In that regards the Canadian immigration policy is much more colonial and centered around a transactional relationship, which is also somewhat the case in the US but at least they have the very humane lottery system, DACA, etc.
rswail|4 years ago
That's the difference. The focus is on the community contribution, not a specific company's requirements.
In Australia we have the equivalent of H1B (457) visas that are "sponsored" by an employer. That's separate to individual immigration visas.