Would appreciate any advice from those (or know of others) who have made an application for Canadian permanent residency under the Federal Skilled Worker Class on or after 27 February 2008, and have been affected by the Ministerial Instruction of 28 November 2008.
Apparently those applications made on or after 27 February 2008 would be subject to changes that the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism may subsequently made - even though the application may have been made during a period you are eligible. This would be especially felt by those who had made an application between 27 February 2008 and 28 November 2008.
I am one of those affected. I submitted my application in July 2008 under the Federal Skilled Worker Class under NOC Code 072 (Facility Operation and Maintenance Managers), which was then an eligible occupation. A Ministerial Instruction was later issued and published in the Canada Gazette on 28 November 2008, where NOC Code 072 was not included amongst the “eligible” occupations. A couple of days ago I received an email from their Centralised Intake Office in Nova Scotia that, because of the said Ministerial Instruction, my application will not be processed and my fee refunded.
Is there any recourse? Or is this a dead end? There must be many others like myself who feel aggrieved by the retrospective nature of the instruction. Thanks in advance.
Apparently those applications made on or after 27 February 2008 would be subject to changes that the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism may subsequently made - even though the application may have been made during a period you are eligible. This would be especially felt by those who had made an application between 27 February 2008 and 28 November 2008.
I am one of those affected. I submitted my application in July 2008 under the Federal Skilled Worker Class under NOC Code 072 (Facility Operation and Maintenance Managers), which was then an eligible occupation. A Ministerial Instruction was later issued and published in the Canada Gazette on 28 November 2008, where NOC Code 072 was not included amongst the “eligible” occupations. A couple of days ago I received an email from their Centralised Intake Office in Nova Scotia that, because of the said Ministerial Instruction, my application will not be processed and my fee refunded.
Is there any recourse? Or is this a dead end? There must be many others like myself who feel aggrieved by the retrospective nature of the instruction. Thanks in advance.