Tough Love From Canada
Canada applies its laws against admission into the country of those with a criminal background or a criminal conviction, or involved in criminal activities fairly consistently. If there has been a background of criminal convictions or known criminal activities, inclusive of war crimes, or belonging to a terror group or taking part in official government offences against society as a party to inhumane treatment of others, admission to Canada is denied.
Even if you're one of the wealthiest people in the world, a billionaire with high-placed political friends and allies in your country of origin. Vitaly Borisovich Malkin, who is a senator in the upper house of the Russian parliament, whose financial standing ranks on Forbes list of billionaires and who owns 111 condominium units in Toronto has been denied a visitor's visa, just as he has been denied, over the course of fifteen years of trying, entry as a prospective immigrant.
Canada's immigration authorities hold him to be associated with criminal money laundering, to be involved in the international arms trade as well as trade in banned Angolan conflict diamonds. He has been deemed to be inadmissible to Canada "for being a member of a group engaging in organized or transnational crime". He has repeatedly attempted to appeal that decision and each time he has been denied.
On his original immigration application he planned to start up a merchant bank in Canada, along with an export firm, and to engage in further property development. He had purchased two buildings, and was negotiating for ownership of a third. And that's when the Canadian Security Intelligence Service became interested, following which Immigration denied his 1997 application.
While immigrant applicants from Hong Kong, wealthy Chinese uneasy about mainland takeover of the island kingdom from Great Britain sought to position themselves with Canadian citizenship and passports in the event that the economic situation went awry - promising to invest heavily in Canada in exchange for that opportunity - they were seen as acceptable prospective citizens. They were high-quality economic migrants.
It isn't illegal to attempt to escape the uncertainty of a new, unknowable political and financial future. Wealth, power and prestige however, sullied by criminal enterprise doesn't make the cut.
Even if you're one of the wealthiest people in the world, a billionaire with high-placed political friends and allies in your country of origin. Vitaly Borisovich Malkin, who is a senator in the upper house of the Russian parliament, whose financial standing ranks on Forbes list of billionaires and who owns 111 condominium units in Toronto has been denied a visitor's visa, just as he has been denied, over the course of fifteen years of trying, entry as a prospective immigrant.
Canada's immigration authorities hold him to be associated with criminal money laundering, to be involved in the international arms trade as well as trade in banned Angolan conflict diamonds. He has been deemed to be inadmissible to Canada "for being a member of a group engaging in organized or transnational crime". He has repeatedly attempted to appeal that decision and each time he has been denied.
On his original immigration application he planned to start up a merchant bank in Canada, along with an export firm, and to engage in further property development. He had purchased two buildings, and was negotiating for ownership of a third. And that's when the Canadian Security Intelligence Service became interested, following which Immigration denied his 1997 application.
While immigrant applicants from Hong Kong, wealthy Chinese uneasy about mainland takeover of the island kingdom from Great Britain sought to position themselves with Canadian citizenship and passports in the event that the economic situation went awry - promising to invest heavily in Canada in exchange for that opportunity - they were seen as acceptable prospective citizens. They were high-quality economic migrants.
It isn't illegal to attempt to escape the uncertainty of a new, unknowable political and financial future. Wealth, power and prestige however, sullied by criminal enterprise doesn't make the cut.
posted by Pieface | 7:29 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home