I agree. That's why I think the programs don't really work well enough. The rules are pretty bad. There are people who would like to move there and work and contribute to the country, move because they like the culture/place/people. but the governments make it really hard.
Then there are people who move there to reap benefits - usually to do low-level work or later no work at all - paradoxially the laws make it much more appealing for them, and it's easier for them to move there. These people are also willing to make more effort to take advantage of these programs because moving to the US/Canada would make a huge positive difference for them.
Skilled people often say "fuck it", because of how long it takes and how complicated the governments make it for them, and they are often doing serious work already in their countries.
As an example most Canadian federal and provincial programs (including the most popular "Skilled worker" program) require you to have a job offer in order to be allowed in to work. Obviously it's rather easy if you're applying for work nobody wants to do there (truck drivers are the latest hype in Canada amongst immigrants). These employers would just hire any foreigner who sends in his poorly written CV because they need people. So these people just have to take the job offer to the embassy, wait for a year or two and they become permanent residents there. This pretty much attracts the uneducated crowd that's willing to do any work just to get there and then perhaps reap benefits once they lose or quit the job.
If you're a skilled professional applying for job in your field, however, nobody in Canada or USA would hire you without seeing you first, which is normal - you need to be there for the interview etc. If you're one of these people, if you're really a skilled worker it gets very complicated. Basically you have to ditch your job in your home country and go there to look for work on a freaking tourist visa, if you're lucky enough to find a company that's willing to hire a person who's yet to go through the long process of getting the work permit you have to go back to your own country with the job offer, take it to the embassy and wait for about 13-20 months until you're given a work permit (that is granted the company will wait for you for those XX months). I think it's ridiculous and pretty much repels skilled workers.
You can get lucky and plan well and you can use different programs not really the way they were meant to be used to make it easier and still legal (for example temporary work permits until you're there long enough to apply for permanent residency), but personally I think it's just not the way it should be. Really skilled workers just wouldn't want to take the risk and go through all the hassle.
I like Canada, I though it might be a great idea to stay there for a while, so I took time to read in detail about every federal and provincial program and I became frustrated with how silly each single way to get there is, even though their programs are still way better than the American ones. But even with that in mind I concluded that I'd just have to get married there to make it easy, or ditch the corporate work and work as a store clerk in a random store that's bad enough to offer job to a random person without seeing him first, and I'm not going to do either of those.
Then there are people who move there to reap benefits - usually to do low-level work or later no work at all - paradoxially the laws make it much more appealing for them, and it's easier for them to move there. These people are also willing to make more effort to take advantage of these programs because moving to the US/Canada would make a huge positive difference for them.
Skilled people often say "fuck it", because of how long it takes and how complicated the governments make it for them, and they are often doing serious work already in their countries.
As an example most Canadian federal and provincial programs (including the most popular "Skilled worker" program) require you to have a job offer in order to be allowed in to work. Obviously it's rather easy if you're applying for work nobody wants to do there (truck drivers are the latest hype in Canada amongst immigrants). These employers would just hire any foreigner who sends in his poorly written CV because they need people. So these people just have to take the job offer to the embassy, wait for a year or two and they become permanent residents there. This pretty much attracts the uneducated crowd that's willing to do any work just to get there and then perhaps reap benefits once they lose or quit the job.
If you're a skilled professional applying for job in your field, however, nobody in Canada or USA would hire you without seeing you first, which is normal - you need to be there for the interview etc. If you're one of these people, if you're really a skilled worker it gets very complicated. Basically you have to ditch your job in your home country and go there to look for work on a freaking tourist visa, if you're lucky enough to find a company that's willing to hire a person who's yet to go through the long process of getting the work permit you have to go back to your own country with the job offer, take it to the embassy and wait for about 13-20 months until you're given a work permit (that is granted the company will wait for you for those XX months). I think it's ridiculous and pretty much repels skilled workers.
You can get lucky and plan well and you can use different programs not really the way they were meant to be used to make it easier and still legal (for example temporary work permits until you're there long enough to apply for permanent residency), but personally I think it's just not the way it should be. Really skilled workers just wouldn't want to take the risk and go through all the hassle.
I like Canada, I though it might be a great idea to stay there for a while, so I took time to read in detail about every federal and provincial program and I became frustrated with how silly each single way to get there is, even though their programs are still way better than the American ones. But even with that in mind I concluded that I'd just have to get married there to make it easy, or ditch the corporate work and work as a store clerk in a random store that's bad enough to offer job to a random person without seeing him first, and I'm not going to do either of those.
