[转帖]加拿大严查新移民违例，回国常住或失居留权

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Returning immigrants face losing residency
By TOM GODFREY, SUN MEDIA

Last ｕｐｄａｔｅd: 17th April 2009, 3:04am

Immigration officers are targeting landed immigrants who were living and working abroad for years before returning to Canada to find jobs in the wake of the global economic meltdown.

Immigrants like Toronto’s Carla and Joe face deportation after being nabbed by Border Services officers as they arrived at Pearson airport from the Azores last year.

They face having their permanent resident card, also known as Maple Leaf Cards, revoked for being outside Canada for longer than two years out of the last five. Card holders must spend three years out of five in Canada.

RENEWED EVERY 5 YEARS

The cards were issued to 1 million immigrants in 2002 and have to be renewed every five years.

“We left Canada to look after my sick father,” Carla said yesterday. “We lost our jobs in the Azores and came back to Canada because of the opportunities.”

The couple didn’t want their identities made public since they’re appealing to get their cards back. They’ve since found jobs in the construction industry.

“We love Canada and we always wanted to come back,” she said.

Avvy Go, of the Metro Toronto Chinese and South Asian Legal Clinic, said there’s been complaints from community members facing deportation.

‘COMMON ISSUE’

“This is a common issue for Chinese immigrants,” Go said. Go said many members of her community return to China to work, run companies or look after ailing relatives.

Toronto lawyer Richard Boraks said a number of his Portuguese clients were nabbed returning to Canada after working abroad for more than the two years required.

Federal immigration spokesman Danielle Norris said action to revoke a Maple Leaf Card can begin if the holder has been away from Canada for 730 days, or two years, of the last five.

Norris said immigrants can appeal the removal of their cards.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/04/17/9140411-sun.html

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大公报/据加拿大《多伦多太阳报》十七日报道，加拿大移民局正在严查不按规定在加国居留的移民，违者的移民身份会被注销。当局今次切实执行有关规定，或会影响当地的中国移民，因为有很多华人违规回国工作。

根据加拿大移民法，移民获准来加后，五年内必须住满三年，否则将注销其移民身份。二○○二年起，加拿大对获准来加的移民发给枫叶卡，取代以前的永久居留证。不过枫叶卡每五年必须更新一次。

《多伦多太阳报》访问了一对去年才从葡萄牙亚速尔群岛返回加拿大的夫妇。他们表示，一抵达多伦多皮尔逊国际机场，枫叶卡便被移民官员没收。

移民官员解释，过去五年，他们没有在加拿大住满三年，所以不但枫叶卡被没收，也将面临被驱逐出境。

这对夫妇表示，当初回葡萄牙，是为了照顾年迈的父亲，现在因为失业，想返回工作机会较多的多伦多。他们正为枫叶卡被没收一事上诉，并在多伦多找到了建筑业方面的工作。

大多伦多华裔及南亚裔法律援助中心主任吴瑶瑶表示，华人社区中也有很多类似状况。她说，很多中国移民拿到枫叶卡后便回国工作，做生意，或照顾老人家，因此常有枫叶卡被没收的情况。

加拿大移民局发言人诺里斯表示，枫叶卡持有人若在过去五年内，离开加拿大满七百三十天，移民局便可收回枫叶卡；但移民枫叶卡被没收后，还有上诉的机会。