"Canadians need to wake the f**k up.”
A 50-year-old Indian man who entered Canada on a Visitor Visa and eventually received a Study Permit has sparked outrage on social media.
A Reddit user shared the case of Prateek Gadhva, who got a Study Permit with the help of a Canada-based educational consultancy called GOAT Consulting Inc.
The company is also believed to have facilitated the approval of his wife’s Spousal Open Work Permit.
The video featured Prateek’s story:
“My name is Prateek Bhai Gadhva. I came here on a Visitor Visa, and GOAT helped to get a Study Permit and I got the approval.
“And they also helped me to get my wife’s Spousal Open-Work Permit. So, I came here to collect it.”
Although the clip appears to be a promotional video, Reddit users expressed their anger over the possibility of a Study Permit being approved for someone like Prateek while highly qualified individuals are rejected.
Netizens also urged a formal investigation into Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
The debate comes after Canada announced that police clearance is not mandatory for individuals entering the country temporarily.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller responded to queries surrounding the issue:
“I have never said such certificates are required for temporary residents.”
The original Reddit post criticised the idea of paying “increased taxes” to “cover the costs of people like Prateek”.
It read: “Let’s continue working hard and paying our increased taxes and increased rental prices/housing costs so we can cover the costs of people like Prateek Bhai, a 50-year-old Indian man who came as a visitor now a student and his wife who is here on an Open Spousal Visa.
“Canadians need to wake the f**k up.”
Some highlighted the system’s hypocrisy of denying younger and qualified individuals.
One drew parallels between Prateek and a 40-year-old female doctor who was denied permanent residency (PR), writing:
“Yet they deny a female doctor PR because she is 40 years old.
“Yes, a doctor was denied PR due to her age and sent packing. STUPID system. I thought Open Spouse Visas were axed for non-university masters and the like.”
Another added: “The doctor should’ve been the priority, not this man who can’t speak English.
“Furthermore, if you can’t get licensed as a doctor in Canada, good riddance and get out.”
Let’s continue working hard and paying our increased taxes and increased rental prices/housing costs so we can cover the costs of people like Prateek Bhai a 50 year old Indian man who came as a visitor now a student and his wife who is here on an open spousal visa. Canadians need to wake the fuck up
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One called for a crackdown on these supposed routes to PR.
A comment read: “How is this even possible?
“Like I know there are immigration consultants and lawyers out there using unscrupulous and illegal ways of scamming the system into getting people visas.
“But seriously how is this even possible??
“Like unless they’re openly committing fraud and claiming to the government that they’ve left the country before they re-applied for a different visa, it should be impossible for anybody on a Visitor Visa to convert it to any other visas.
“Our system is completely broken. We need to completely overhaul it with clear set rules with no exception.
“You can’t just come here with a Visitor Visa and convert it to a more permanent type of visa.”
“We need to clamp down on these PR pathways that are strife with exploitation and fraud. This should be completely unacceptable to all Canadians no matter if they’re far-left to far-right.”
One posted: “I don’t understand how you can convert a Visit Visa to a Study Permit.
“I mean unless you’re American, then all other nationals have to apply from their home countries.
“And save for that ludicrous loophole that lets you convert Visit Visas to work permits, I don’t see how you’d be able to transition to a study permit that way.
“Either these visa companies are committing some fraud f**kery with the government, or they’re straight up grifting people into thinking that they can pay money to move their tourist visas to study permits.”
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