Lottery: Lottery System

lottery: Canada adopts lottery system for reuniting immigrants with parents, grandparents Ottawa woman upset with Canada's new lottery system for reuniting immigrants with family Painstaking work to bring mom to Canada 'for nothing' due to new lottery sponsorship system, man says The short notice of the change meant many of her clients who had their paperwork ready to go under the old system are now left waiting to see if they will win the chance to apply, according to CBC. They're frustrated, she said. Jennifer Roggemann said the federal government announced in mid-December the system would change from first-come, first-serve to a lottery system. Most of my clients, they hired in June, July, even last February to start this process. I said to my clients, stop. She said when the government said there would be changes announced Dec. 8, and then it got pushed to Dec. 14, she knew it was going to mean big changes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.