Canadian immigration in 20 12 years: in the era of high investment immigration, the threshold for Canadian immigration has been greatly improved.

Canadian immigration in 20 12 years: in the era of high investment immigration, the threshold for Canadian immigration has been greatly improved.

One afternoon in mid-April, Mr. Yang, who lives in Xishan District, Kunming City, received a short message: "Urgent notice: the increase of immigrants will rise to $65,438 +0.5 million, Quebec immigrants will be closed within two months, and American immigrants will rise to at least one million." The short message was sent by an immigration agency, with the contact information: "3644××××".

Mr. Yang has never thought about immigration, and he has never paid attention to the information released by immigration agencies. His first reaction when he saw this message was: "What kind of fraud is this?"

In fact, the news he received about the "increase in immigrant money" was slightly sensational, but it was not false information. Recently, the immigration policies of some popular countries have indeed changed, and the cost of immigration has also risen, and the amount is not affordable for ordinary people.

Canada "tightens" investment immigration policy

On March 2 1 day, the Immigration Bureau of Quebec, Canada announced the new reform measures for investment immigrants, and set the application limit for investment immigrants: 2 12 from 7: 00 pm on March 26th to 3 13 at 7: 00 pm on March 30th, and only 2,700 investment immigrants were accepted in the world.

As soon as the news came out, domestic immigration agencies launched a fierce competition for these 2,700 application places. Every "part" in this business chain must work overtime and do things quickly. City Times reporter learned from some immigration agencies in Kunming that the application materials for China investment immigrants, which used to take two to four weeks to translate, are now required to be completed as soon as possible within 1 week; In the past, it took two to four weeks for a third-party appraisal agency to issue an applicant's property and assets certificate, but now it is required to reduce it to 1 to two weeks.

To apply for investment immigration in Quebec, Canada, applicants need to prove that their property and income sources are legal. This is not simple: in addition to the need to issue more than 6.5438+0.6 million Canadian dollars (according to the exchange rate of the foreign exchange market on May 5, 6.5438+0 Canadian dollars =6.32 RMB). Property certificate of 10.6 million Canadian dollars (about RMB10 million yuan) net assets, and relevant certificates of the source of assets such as tax bills and payroll must be attached. It is precisely because of time constraints that it is difficult for ordinary applicants to prepare relevant certificates within 1 to 2 weeks. If the information is ready, then these 2700 places may have been robbed.

That's true. Shortly after the Immigration Bureau of Quebec, Canada began to implement the new policy, more than 1200 applications were "booked in advance". As of April 1 1, the Quebec Immigration Bureau announced that 2,700 application places were full and the application door would be closed until next year.

Shortly after Quebec announced this policy change, the Canadian federal government also made a bold move and announced that it would refund the application fee of about 65.438+300 million yuan (about 820 million yuan) to nearly 300,000 Canadian immigrant applicants. The purpose is to "clear the backlog". Jason Kenney, Canadian Immigration Minister, announced that the backlog of federal skilled immigration applications sent before February 27th, 2008 but not yet finalized will be invalidated. As many as 280,000 people were affected. If these people still want to immigrate to Canada, they need to resubmit their immigration applications.

These people who are going to immigrate know very well that once they can't get on this bus, they will have to wait until next year or later to apply for investment immigration in Canada, and that threshold will be set higher.

It is inevitable to raise the immigration threshold.

In recent years, "austerity" is the general trend of Canadian immigration policy. 20 10, 10 In February, the asset requirements and investment quota of immigrants from Canada and Quebec almost doubled: the asset requirements increased from 800,000 Canadian dollars (RMB 5 million) to 6,543.8+0.6 million Canadian dollars, and the investment threshold (in the form of "no return", that is, choosing to pay a specified amount of funds to the designated immigration fund at one time) was changed from 60.

However, although the standards of applicants' assets and investment amount have been raised, there are still a steady stream of people who want to immigrate to Canada. By July 20 1 1 year, the backlog of Canadian immigration applications had exceeded 920,000. Among them, the most serious backlog is federal skilled immigrants, with a backlog of more than 480,000. Canada is already the country with the most serious immigration in the world.

As early as 20 11July1,the Canadian Immigration Bureau implemented a global quota of 700 for federal investment immigrants. However, the applicant's response surprised the Canadian Immigration Department. All 700 places were handed over that day. The suspension of Canadian federal investment immigration has made Quebec's investment immigration project more in full swing.

The text message sent by the immigration agent mentioned that "the increase of immigrants will rise to $65,438 +0.5 million, Quebec immigrants will be closed within two months, and American immigrants will rise to at least one million". In fact, the second item has already become a reality. It is no exaggeration to say that "the increase of immigrants will rise to $65,438 +0.5 million".

Earlier, it was reported that Canada's investment immigration plan will be reopened in July this year. The investment amount (in the form of "return after five years", that is, the specified amount of funds will be returned to the designated immigration fund after five years) exceeds 6.5438+0.5 million Canadian dollars (about 9.5 million RMB), and the asset requirement is raised to 4 million Canadian dollars (about 25 million RMB). Although the Canadian Immigration Minister later said that "the Immigration Department has not yet made a decision", he also claimed that the Immigration Department thought that the investment requirement of 800,000 Canadian dollars was too low.

It can be predicted that the further contraction of Canadian immigration policy will be imperative, and the "rise" and "improvement" of investment will also become inevitable.

A series of reactions brought about by the improvement of immigration conditions

Canada is not the only country that has reduced its immigration policy and raised its application standards. In the United States, the EB-5 visa (investment immigration) bill with the shortest approval time and the least qualifications will expire on September 30 this year. The news that "the United States will raise immigration application standards" is endless. The most popular saying is: "The United States will increase the minimum investment from the current 500,000 US dollars (about 310.4 million yuan) to10.8 million US dollars (about 6.28 million yuan)."

On April 23rd, Gallup Consulting, an authoritative American survey agency, published a set of latest survey results on its website, showing that there are more than 640 million people in the world who intend to emigrate, accounting for about 13% of the global adult population. Among these people, about 65.438+0.5 billion people expressed their desire to immigrate to the United States; China has 22 million people who want to immigrate to the United States, ranking first in the world. Since 2007, Gallup has been conducting a survey on global migration trends. In recent years, the United States has become "the country that people want to move to most". It seems that the situation that "American immigrant funds have risen to one million" seems to be just around the corner.

In addition, countries particularly favored by China immigrants, such as Singapore and Australia, have also raised the threshold for investment immigrants in the past two years. Since 20 1 1, the minimum amount of investment immigrants in Singapore has been adjusted from S $65,438 +0.5 million (about 7.5 million RMB) to S $2.5 million (about125,000 RMB).

The tightening of immigration channels in major immigrant countries will naturally trigger a series of chain reactions.

Many applicants from Chinese mainland and Hong Kong held a rally in front of the Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong on April 30 * in response to the Canadian Immigration Department's invalidation of the backlog of federal skilled immigrants who sent documents before February 27, 2008. Some people in the angry crowd put up slogans such as "We want justice, don't refund fees" to express their serious dissatisfaction with Canada's immigration policy. On the same day, many immigration applications were held in more than ten cities in Britain, India, Pakistan and other countries. But * belongs to *, and their most pragmatic approach is actually to speed up the preparation of materials and submit applications to avoid being excluded next time.

As one of the main immigrant exporting countries, the change of China's immigration policy has a particularly obvious impact on other countries. An example is: On April 24th, Sichuan Airlines held a Vancouver route promotion meeting and announced that it would open the Chengdu-Shenyang-Vancouver international route on June 22nd. This route will be the first flight to North America in the western region, and it will radiate to the whole southwest region including Yunnan. The advertisement of the new route is widely publicized in Kunming market, which also shows that Kunming has potential demand.

Kunming people with immigration plans:

Immigration is for the education of the next generation.

On the afternoon of April 26th, an immigration lecture was held in a hall on the second floor of Shuncheng West Tower/KLOC-0. The reporter attended as a potential immigrant customer. The speaker Wang Qing is from Beijing. She is the chief consultant of an immigration agency and the project director of the United States and Canada. On that day, in addition to reporters, there were 18 people who came to listen to the lecture, including 2 old people, middle-aged people 13 people, and the other 3 people were young people around 30 years old.

The speaker asked the audience about their immigration intention country. Please raise your hands separately. The number of people who want to immigrate to Canada is the largest, followed by the United States. Other places such as Australia, Britain and Singapore are only individual destinations.

"The threshold for immigrating to Canada is getting higher and higher!" In the lecture, Wang Qing pointed out the current immigration situation and also showed various data changes in the immigration market in recent years on PPT. She used the word "severe" to express her pessimistic views on the immigration policies of Canada and Quebec, and reminded everyone to speed up the submission of application materials and even adjust the immigration plan. "The reason is actually very simple, that is, more and more people are signing up."

The change of Wang Qing's work intensity can also reflect that "more and more people in China are trying to emigrate". "In 2007, I was nine to five, and I didn't have to work overtime at all. I can sign several copies every month. " However, this state is obviously not applicable now. She now "has to work overtime and submit the client's application as soon as possible".

Because the reporter set the "immigration target" as Canada, which is relatively young among the spectators, he got a "special reminder" from Wang Qing: "Investing in immigration to Canada is to meet the required asset conditions.

In addition, you must have more than two years of business management experience. "She pointed to the direction where the reporter was sitting." I said this for a purpose. The gentleman sitting in the back, I don't know your specific situation, but you should pay attention to this. "Obviously, in her opinion, journalists obviously don't look like people with more than two years of business management experience.

"But isn't Canada's immigration policy" one person immigrates and the whole family immigrates "? The reporter asked.

"If you apply for immigration with your parents, then your children are required to be no more than 2 1 year old." Wang Qing explained.

At the lecture site, the audience not only pays more attention to the specific investment projects, but also pays more attention to the specific situation of the target country, mainly the education situation. "How many students are there in each class?" "What does the course include?" "Are there any other China students in the school?" These are all their concerns. For them, the education of the next generation is the reason for immigration. During the conversation, they were generally dissatisfied with the teaching quality of domestic schools. In addition to the low quality of education, the arrangement of more than 60 or 70 students in each class in domestic schools is also unacceptable to these parents. Considering the future of the next generation, they decided to send their children abroad for education.

In 2007, the Global Politics and Security Report issued by China Academy of Social Sciences pointed out that China is becoming a world immigrant exporter, and the number of China immigrants in the world has reached 35 million, accounting for 18.3% of the total international immigrants.

20 1 1 In April, China Merchants Bank and Bain Company released the "20 1/China Private Wealth Report", which showed that among the business owners whose personal assets exceeded1billion yuan, 27% had emigrated and 47% were considering emigrating. Nearly 60% of the people whose personal assets exceed 6.5438+million yuan have completed investment immigration or are considering it.

After the immigration lecture, the reporter tried to communicate with other listeners present, trying to "get familiar with the immigration process and what problems should be paid attention to", but it was not smooth. Helpless, when the reporter showed his true identity, Mr. Lin, who clearly knew all the immigration problems, claimed that he "just started to understand" and then left.

This mentality is not difficult to understand. Anyone who can invest and immigrate abroad can be called a rich man, and basically can be called a "rich man". In recent years, in the impression of ordinary people, rich immigrants always bring speculation such as "unknown source of assets, capital flight". In addition, in recent years, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, and the feeling of "hating the rich" has grown again and again. It is also reasonable for the rich to enhance their awareness of self-protection.

Immigration story

"Foreign hukou" is still the heart of China.

Although there are many immigrants from China, most of them appear in the figures and rarely appear in the public eye. It's hard to find someone who is willing to tell you his immigration story. After many twists and turns, the reporter finally found a Yunnan immigrant who was willing to "talk".

"Quite Smooth" Canadian Immigration Process

Wang Da, 42, with sparse hair and slightly fat figure, is a typical middle-aged man. He grew up in rural Yuxi. After graduating from high school, I worked with my relatives on the construction site, from foreman, small foreman, foreman to engineering contractor. In the process of "upgrading", he also completed his initial capital accumulation.

In 2004, Wang Da stayed in Beijing for a period of time and "made some friends". At that time, my friend was optimistic about the housing market in Beijing, and he also bought two suites in Beijing. At that time, the price per square meter was only a few thousand yuan, but now, these two houses alone are enough to make Wang a multimillionaire.

After no longer contracting projects, Wang Da started building materials business in Kunming, and then expanded his business to Beijing. He hoped to have a Beijing hukou. Later, a friend told him: "Beijing hukou is not easy to handle, but it is much easier to invest in immigration."

At that time, the problem of his son's education has been bothering Wang Da. "Then immigrate!" Through a friend's introduction, Wang Da met the boss of an immigration agency, and it was at this time that he began to know something about immigration. The more he knows, the more he feels passionate about it. According to him, "I began to really understand the benefits of immigration", and he also frequently contacted several immigration agencies.

After repeated weighing and comparison, Wang Da chose Canada as an immigrant destination. "I meet all the conditions for immigrating to Canada, and considering that children's education from primary school to high school is free and the whole family can enjoy free medical care and other benefits, we think this is a very cost-effective choice."

It is not troublesome to prepare materials, submit applications and interview, but it takes a lot of effort to transfer money to Wang. The investment form chosen by Wang Da is "return after 5 years", requiring him to transfer his investment of 400,000 Canadian dollars (about 2.5 million RMB at that time) to a fund account designated by Canada, and return the money without interest after 5 years; He has another option, that is, to pay 6.5438+0.2 million Canadian dollars (about 750,000 RMB at the current exchange rate) in one lump sum, but he won't get any refund. This form is usually directly understood as "spending 6.5438+0.2 million Canadian dollars to buy a Canadian account for the whole family".

It is not easy to transfer 400,000 Canadian dollars. Wang Da has tossed about a dozen rounds between several banks, because according to regulations, a domestic cross-border remittance cannot exceed 50,000 Canadian dollars. "What a toss!" In retrospect, Wang Da still can't help feeling.

After passing the medical examination, Wang Da's family got an immigrant visa to Canada. The whole process went smoothly.

"In recent years, there have been more and more immigrants from China."

After emigrating for half a year, at the end of 2009, Wang Da decided to buy a house and villa in Canada. It cost him 6.8 million.

Wang Da said that the decision to buy a house was more for investment. "You know what? After the financial crisis, the overall house price in Vancouver basically did not fall. Not only did it not fall, but it also showed an upward trend. "

Now, Wang Da's eyes are really good. In the next two years, Vancouver's real estate market continued to improve. 20 1 1 Vancouver has become one of the real estate markets in the world. According to outside analysis, it is generally believed that the main reason is that China buyers flock to Canada, pushing up local house prices.

"In recent years, there have been more and more immigrants from China. As far as I know, there are many people coming to Canada. Take our community as an example. It is estimated that most of them are from China. " Although he bought a house, Wang Da didn't stay here. His son is studying in Canada and his wife often lives there. He himself needs to fly frequently between Kunming, Beijing and Vancouver. Because his business is still in China. "There are many people like me! Almost all the immigrant friends I know are in this situation. It can be said that there is basically no situation of completely leaving China after immigration. " He said quietly.

There are many details that Wang Da doesn't want to disclose. He thinks those are personal privacy. But he is proud of one thing. He seems to tell reporters ostentatiously that many people around him don't know that he has emigrated. (Reporter Li Yiqian)

Guide to Canadian investment immigration

Federal investment immigrants: The total assets under the husband and wife's name exceed 6.5438+0.6 million Canadian dollars, and the assets must be obtained through legal commercial efforts, and legal proof of company documents or sources of funds is required. Require at least 2 years of company management experience in the last 5 years. If it is a company executive, it is required to have at least 5 employees. Applicants must invest 800,000 Canadian dollars according to the requirements of the Immigration Bureau. The investment period is five years (after five years, the government will repay the principal, but there is no interest) or make loan investment. The interest of 220,000 Canadian dollars will be paid to the fund designated and guaranteed by the Canadian government, and 800,000 Canadian dollars will be loaned through this fund. Applicants are required to have no criminal record and pass the physical examination.

Quebec investment immigrants: Quebec investment immigrants and federal investment immigrants have basically the same requirements, but they need to go through interviews. The province has the right to choose independent immigrants.

Saskatchewan Investment Immigrants, PNP Manitoba Investment Immigrants and Prince Island Investment Immigrants: All three places require to apply for a visa, conduct a business investigation and submit a complete business plan. It is necessary to pay a deposit of 75,000 yuan to the local immigration bureau for investment and entrepreneurship, invest at least 6,543,805 Canadian dollars in business (the deposit can be recovered after investment), start a new enterprise or acquire an existing enterprise. If you are a shareholder of the old company, you must hold more than 654.38+0/3 or 6.5438+0 million Canadian dollars, and you must also participate in daily management. (The specific amount, applicant's age and language ability requirements are slightly different. )