Chinese millionaires (& billionaires - including a raft of China Govt well connected insiders Princelings) investors’ immigration class action suit cases against Feds Immigration changed rules fails! As many as 50,000 applicants from HK alone were destined for BC, primarily Vancouver-GVA! (boohoohoohoo for them!) A Federal Court judge has ruled against more than 1,000 Chinese millionaires who tried to immigrate to Canada under the now-scrapped immigrant investor program and then tried to force their way in through the courts. As Canada’s immigrant investor program became increasingly popular with China’s nouveaux riches, the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong was deluged by eager applicants. Eventually, the backlog swelled to more than 80,000 applications, with about 80 per cent of them filed in Hong Kong by wealthy would-be immigrants from mainland China. Roughly 50,000 of those were applicants destined for British Columbia. Then, in the last federal budget, the government killed the program and said the backlog of applicants would be wiped out – prompting more than 1,000 court orders filed on behalf of wealthy Chinese, as well as some others from Turkey and elsewhere, who argued that their applications should still be processed. This week, a Federal Court judge dismissed the cases en masse. Justice Mary Gleason ruled that would-be investor immigrants to Canada – such as Jia Baoxian, who was named in the suit along with 95 others, as well as more than 1,000 similar applicants who were not named – had no legitimate expectation of a visa or Canadian residency, and that the government acted within the law. First, the program was closed to new applicants as it was inundated, and the government eventually ended the existing program entirely. theglobeandmail/news/british-columbia/chinese-investors-immigration-cases-fail/article19383810/
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:02:41 +0000
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