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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Does anyone work at the Canadian Embassy in London?
If so, can you please shank one of your colleagues for me?
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Re: Does anyone work at the Canadian Embassy in London?
It's a work thing - but they just cost us ?300,000 pounds.
Basically, we've filled a work order for a mushroom harvesting plant in Ontario for 90 workers - rather than getting people from one country directly, they went through us because they were after people with experience abroad and those that spoke a practical amount of English.
Anyway, we marketed it to students here in the UK that, now that PSW has been removed in the UK ( 2 year work permit after graduation in the UK ), the students could go to work in Canada on a 2 year temporary work permit - which allowed them to finish their education here, go to Canada and work to save oodles of money to bring back home after 2 years, which was their intention to do in the UK until the rules changed.
Anyway, they were all given a blanket refusal stating that the ECO didn't believe that they would leave Canada at the end of their visa ( depsite the fact that none of them have breached UK immigration laws, which is just about the best evidence of this that you can get! ).
So we strengthened their applications with ridiculous amounts of evidence from each applicant stating exactly what their tie was to their home country - and they were all blanket refused again this morning on this and a time technicality!
I'm so freaking angry right now. These are genuine people, they aren't immigrants, they are freaking economic expats and part of a global workforce that fully adheres to immigration conditions, and employers in these situations are desperate for the workers. These aren't people who are going to bring over their families, they don't even have that as an option under this route! These aren't even people that are going to illegally overstay in Canada, because as soon as their visa nears its' end they would go as a group to another country to fill another temporary employment gap...
Anyway, the refusal reason is freaking ridiculous and it's cost us not only a hell of a lot of money, but reputation as well.
Grrrrrr.....
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Holy crap! I can understand if they refuse a couple of the workers, but all of them!
Is there anything else you can do about it?
Kind of a related story: when I worked at the CDN consulate in Vietnam, there was a group of Vietnamese government officials visiting Canada. Of the 15 or so of them, two stayed behind! I'm not sure if they were ever found and sent back.