Можете ли вы купить ваш путь в Канаду?

Гражданства и иммиграции Канады не может поставить его именно так, but the federal Иммигрант Программа Инвестор, который был reopened to prospective immigrants this month, по существу a fast(является) отслеживать, чтобы Canadian permanent resident status if you don’t have a Canadian job lined up.

It just takes money.

To apply for permanent resident status as an Immigrant Investor in Canada, you now have to have a net worth of at least CAD$1.6 million AND be willing to make an investment of CAD$800,000.

You’re basically making a no-interest loan of $800,000 to the Canadian government for five years.

Конечно, you have to have business experience as well as money — either by owning (or part-owning) a business for at least two years or by managing at least five full-time employees for a similar period.

И вы все равно должны иметь по крайней мере 35 точки (out of a possible 100) с immigrant investor selection criteria, которые включают в себя:

• образование
• опыт работы
• возраст (you get the most points if you’re between the ages of 21 и 49)
• English- and/or French-language ability
• “adaptability,” which means that you’ve either made a “business exploration” trip to Canada or participated in joint federal–provincial business immigration initiatives.

Under the previous Immigrant Investor program, you needed to have a minimum net worth of CAD$800,000 and make an investment of CAD $400,000.

Однако, the program became so backlogged with applications that the government has doubled the financial requirements, effective December 2010.

The processing times for investor applications are still quite lengthy — about two years for applicants from Taiwan, Великобритания, и Южная Корея; roughly three years for applicants from the US, Германия, Гонконг, и Китай; and even longer times for applicants from other parts of the world.

Тем не менее, if you’ve got the money, it offers a way to open the door to your new home in Canada.

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Did you qualify for Canadian permanent resident status under the Investor program? Or do you have advice for others hoping to follow that route?

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