Date: Thu Dec 4, 2003 12:58 am
Subject: Canadian Immigration - Almost guaranteed to qualify !

I have mentioned before how it is more of the street smart but academically less brilliant persons that yearn for and succeed in overcoming the cultural barriers settling overseas as the post from Jupiter yambem below highlights. I know there are plenty of people that are exploring immigration overseas currently and here is the chance. We really have to strive to get more of our people overseas.

The Canadian immigration has lowered their pass mark for skilled immigration points so most people with a little work experience should qualify for it now. One has to act quick as these points fluctuate with time. Immigration is usually limited to the rich as most of us are insecure having grown up in a corruption riddled society doubting the fairness and equity of an application process.

So we feel we have to ONLY go through immigration lawyers paying their exhorbitant fees which is not the case. Middlemen like Immigration lawyers make money from ignorance and one of the main goals of the MD forum is to democratize knowledge and information through such dissemination so that it is not only the priviledge lot that gets all the plum opportunities in life while the underpriviledged remain exploited, deprived and kept in the dark.

Just assess yourself on the points test and if you pass it, arange JUST the application fees, get all the documents organised and even fake work experiences if you can manage and then put in your papers as quickly as you can. Arranging the documents is usually time consuming and so we dilly dally and procrastinate and never end up applying. I know how I wasted my opportunities in not having got my act together earlier and looking back retrospectively you realize what a dumbo we were in balking at those stupid hurdles.

And my attempts to draw in more overseas resident manipuris in our group, is to ease the fear of adjusting to a foreign culture. Even if the application fees sound high for those from poorer families, imagine it as a less costly, more quicker and surer investment towards one having an income and better life than what one spends in an education and cost of living in cities outside manipur with an almost impossible task of landing a job and an income after that. Overseas every retired citizen gets pension, basic health care is free and payments are made to unemployed people.

I hope someone can get this info published in the local dailies. Canada is a wonderful scenic country and it takes 3 years to get a citizenship there and then you can work even in the US.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/skilled/index.html

Also look into UK immigration though their's is more for the super skilled. I had sent the links many months ago but the immigration points have all been lowered now.

http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.asp?pageid=26

Australia
www.immi.gov.au

New Zealand
http://www.immigration.govt.nz



Date: Wed Feb 16, 2000 8:12 am
Subject: [manipuri] Re: Studying in USA

I am one of the few meities who had undergraduate and graduate education here in New York and I totally agree with Bish and Tiken in relation to cost of education in U.S,but I want to encourage you in whatever I can to never give up. The reason is 21 years back I came to this country with $75 in my pocket as Foreign Exchange Student to counsel poor and blind children,then I decided to apply for schools here and I wrote to 5 schools and all replied with some to 50% of scholarship, Bates College being one.

Bates may sound like any school in New England or N.E.U.S but this is where Alfred Lord Tennyson got his schooling.I just did not have the guts to come up with $22,000.then to go to Bates,so I went to State University of New York,and I am very proud of it. I know people would like you to become either Doctors or Engineers and if that is your goal,go for it,but if by chance if your interest is in arts and humanities willing to write,paint,draw,act,speak and willing to shed the Lab Coat image,which lots of people in India are stuck up with it and want to be in any creative arts please contact me.

I will be in Imphal during the last 2 weeks in February,which I have been going there religiously for the last 15 years. I will be very happy to help you within my capacity.



Date: Fri Apr 27, 2001 12:20 pm
Subject: australia through studies

Also another easy but expensive way to immigrate to australia is through education. Admission overseas is very easy as education is a business. Infact every year you will have all the universities from Australia conducting seminars there to recruit students and that is the best way to find our more about education here and is of no extra cost.

But it could be expensive. Once you do the course here you should be able to migrate here in almost all of the cases. If you are in fields like IT it is 100 %. You can do some 1 year courses that could cost about 14000 AUD. Add to that the additional living costs, subtract the amount you can earn doing small part time jobs. Be realistic and don't expect to be able to pay the fees also by earning from the part ime job 20hrs a week.

But it is an investment worth it if affordable as the education fees can easily be recovered once you work here. If you are the hard working bright or capable person doing a course like IT, I would even recommend taking a bank loan from there. But be warned that some professions could find it hard to get PR ( permanent residency) after the course. Read the information on the skilled list and assess yourself for the points test from the immigration site above.

www.immi.gov.au for all immigration information. Select skilled migration and also look at the points test.

University sites in Sydney are www.uts.edu.au ,
www.unsw.edu.au
Melbourne www.unimelb.edu.au
Canberra www.anu.edu.au
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/features/universities2000/index.html

Ofcourse there are plenty and you can do a search very easily. Much easier to look for the ads on the newspapers in India and go to the seminar when they come to your city.

Once you get a PR, after 2 years you automatically get citizenship after you apply. Then you can go anywhere you like and always come back and retire in australia. And like in all developed nations, everyone gets a pension after reaching retirement age. But that could be gone by then though.

Most important for all members is to pass on this egroup to all your friends so they can join and share all these information. WE have to try to make sure we reach out to as many people as posible.

cheers,



Date: Tue Sep 11, 2001 4:45 am
Subject: Re: [Manipuri] Canadian Immigration site

This is the official site.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english

You can download all the forms from there and assess yourself in the the points test. The immigration lawyers charge you a hefty fee but if you pass the points test, you should apply yourself. The same applies for both australian and new zealand immigration.



Date: Fri Jun 6, 2003 10:10 am
Subject: immigration opportunities for sports persons + sponsorship funding process

http://www.e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=11.12.050603.jun03

This is an epao article on Best fencer Usharani. Western countries provide special categories for immigration of outstanding sports personalities.

Australia:
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/special1.htm#talent

US:
http://www.onlinevisas.com/eb1.asp?visa=EB-1&type=A

The australian immigration requires that a sportsperson be sponsored by an australian citizen in the same sport and that can quite easily be arranged by approaching a coach who who will be very happy to have the oportunity to train an athelete of prospective international stature. Application fee is free.

However immigration of a national level sportsperson is going to be opposed tooth and nail by the indian sports authorities and most probably even the state authorities for obvious reason. But an athelete trained in manipur and even in the best indian training institutes can not compare with the infrastructure, resources, technology, finance and coaches that he or she would receive in a country like australia, uk, canada, us or europe.

Since the immigration process involves application at the consulate in indian which is staffed by indians, such an immigration application will be very difficult to be hidden from reaching the indian sports authorities. However such a hurdle must be there for all the sovient union athletes that migrated to australia and continue even today and that is something that can be investigated.

The fear of sending a young sportsperson overseas for the parents will be a very important factor. However the fear is almost the same when the child has to be sent to a training institute outside manipur in india and I am sure the person would receive much better care overseas than in india where first he/she has to overcome the "chinki" minority label/discrimination.

Eventually the parents and siblings could migrate to the foreign country once the sportsperson sponsors them. I wonder if Dingko would have performed much better had he immigrated overseas. So our young talented sportsperson should be encouraged to seek better opportunites to make a name and lots of money overseas.

But currently becaue of our isolated minority mindset, going overseas is as scary a prospect as going to Mars ! Once we have more pioneers making the move and settling overseas from our communities, the following generation will find it easier to make such a move.

This information needs to be made available to the people in manipur. Can journalists in our forum and others please rty to write an article to spread the information. I would be willing to investigate for more information and also provide sponsorship and accomodation details from the manipuri diaspora in the relevant countries. Ranjan please write an article with details of links and see if it can also be published in the manipuri local newspapers as epao will have a limited audience.

The overseas diaspora also needs to float an account to fund activities at a moment's notice so that organising the collection and logistics of the money does not provide a barrier to the implementation of the project. It needs to be registered as a non profit organisation so that donations/contributions can be tax exempt. Also there needs to be a provision to allow each member to decide if he/she wants to contribute towards a proect and for how much if so.

The objective is that members contribute whatever amount which is kept in an account and teh member receives a receipt so he/she can claim tax deduction for the amount. This money sits in the account and is not pre asigned to any particular project. As and when new projects are floated, members send in mail to the account officials giving an amount of her/his contribution to be given to the project if he/she wants to participate in the project. However if the member does not agree with the project, her/his share of the money sits untouched in the account. This way members can freely contribute the money before hand and receive tax deductions and the fund ensures that money can be dispersed to a project at the earliest.

Each member will be sent a balance and activity statement at regular intervals. This fund need not work out now but the idea should be discussed so that the best system is in place when the fund is eventually set up.



Date: Wed Jun 25, 2003 6:17 pm
Subject: disseminating australian immigration information in manipur

I want to make information on immigration to australia available to people in manipur. I am looking for volunteers both in manipur and also in manipur associations in the indian cities who can printout copies of the imigration forms and information from the web sites that I will provide, Photocopy them and then distribute it to the colleges and the newspaper offices in manipur.

Task required :
1. Negotiate a cheap photocopy charge as it is a non profit project
2. Talk to local newspapers to run an article and publish the web site address and MODL - occupation in demand list with a sample of the points test as below.
3. Distribute the other copies to be put up on college notice boards for spreading awareness and inspring them that migrating to a life overseas is no longer something to only dream about.
4. Contact manipuri associations in the indian cities and distribute the same material.

Those that feel we are only indulging in "leipung phamba" can finally grasp this small project and show us the way to realize projects from just being brainstormed in the forum to actually implementing it.

You could check the points match for yourself too.

Here is a sample
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/skill_points.htm
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1121i.pdf

Skills 60
Age 20
English 20
Experience 10
Occupational Targeting (MODL) 5
Spouse skills 5
Australian qualifications 0
Bonus points 0
Relationship 0
Total 120

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/skill_update0503.htm

Vetassess assessment .
http://www.vetassess.com.au/index3.htm
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/skill.htm

Also keep looking at this site regularly for migration rule change as that happens frequently.