Major Reform: Immigration Canada Announces “No Visa Policy” for Filipino Caregivers
Toronto, Canada | Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander announces a major reform in Canadian caregiver program. The reform ended the decades old Live-in Caregiver Program, and also allow more Filipino caregivers to work and live in Canada with less difficulty in processing travel papers.
The “No Visa Policy” and optional Live-in Caregiver Program will be implemented starting January 2015, together with the opening of 14,000 more jobs in different industry fields.
Dina Jaculo, a registered nurse from Masbate who have been applying for working visa since 2012 sees hope after hearing the news.
“My family has already spent more than a hundred thousand pesos but the Canadian embassy always denies my application for different reasons. I have enough experience but the visa application is really tough. I am so excited to process my papers again on January”, Jaculo said.
Canadian Immigration said that the country is giving back to Filipino caregivers something that can’t be paid by money. “Taking care of our olds is one of the toughest jobs on earth and we believe that Filipino caregivers really deserve this program”, Dicky Fart told reporters.
On the other hand, working visas for workers who are applying in other fields like engineering, manufacturing, IT, fishing, etc are still needed.
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The Canadian government looks to add at 14,000 more jobs for Filipinos for the 2015-2016 Fiscal Year in Saskatchewan alone. DOLE said Canadian employers prefer Filipinos compared to other working nationalities like Indians, Chinese, and South Americans.
The revised lists of application requirements for working in Canada is available at POEA website. You may also visit POEA office for more information.
POEA strongly remind all Filipinos to stay away from scam employment agencies and advise applicants to search the POEA database if the agency is registered or not.
“There are dozens of fake employment agencies that asks money from applicants so make sure to contact POEA first before giving away your hard-earned money to scammers”, DOLE Secretary Luzviminda Dimapilis-Baldoz said.
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/Catherine Jones, Fanny Jalacjac/ Assisted Press Manila and Toronto
