The Canadian government rolled out a special work permit program targeting U.S. H-1B visa holders this week, filling its quota of 10,000 applicants in just two days.
launched a special work permit program this week that aims to entice high-skilled foreign workers who have obtained an H-1B visa in the U.S. to forego the American dream and move to Canada instead., most of whom came to America from India and China. The H-1B program allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in specialized fields like engineering, medicine and technology.
"We even had a whole campaign to promote this, and we had to put an end to that," spokesman Jeremy Bellefeuille said. Bellefeuille added that Canada’s program, which is unusual in that it explicitly targeted U.S. visa holders, was a trial run and that the immigration minister will consider the next steps.
If an H-1B visa holder’s employment ends with a company that sponsored him to come to the U.S., he must find a job and be sponsored within 60 days or face leaving the country. Other limitations on the H-1B visa program include a restriction on the spouses of visa holders from working in the U.S., long wait times for H-1B visa holders to obtain a green card that confers legal permanent resident status and a limited pool of visas that tech companies want to see expanded.
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