Immigration Backlog: Immigration Expert

Parents And Grandparents Dept: Richard Kurland is scheduled to speak to a Commons committee Thursday and pitch his buy-your-entry idea as a way of reducing Canada s growing immigration backlog of parent sponsorships, according to The Star. The problem with the backlog for parents has to do with money . . . concerns over their medical costs on Canadian taxpayers, said Kurland, invited to the standing committee on citizenship and immigration by the three main political parties and a Canadian immigration expert is proposing people sponsoring elderly parents and grandparents to Canada who are willing to pay a $75,000 medical premium have their applications fast-tracked. Australia has a similar fast-track stream where one can pay an upfront fee to expedite a parental sponsorship. The price tag is almost $40,000, compared to a regular $3,245 fee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.