Canadia's Visa System

From Yahoo News:
"Canada's visa system badly flawed: watchdog"

Canada could be admitting people who are security threats or carrying serious diseases because of a flawed visa system, a parliamentary watchdog warned on Tuesday.

The report by the auditor general is likely to bolster U.S. critics seeking much tighter controls on the U.S.-Canada border on the grounds that Ottawa is letting in terror suspects and militants who could one day attack the United States. Interim Auditor General John Wiersema said visa and security officials "need to do a much better job of managing the health, safety and security risks" of applicants." Wiersema said officials at the two main departments involved, Citizenship and Immigration and the Border Services Agency, were overworked, ill-trained, poorly supervised and were using outdated methods. "Visa officers are responsible for deciding whether to grant or refuse a visa to enter Canada. The system lacks basic elements to ensure they get the right information to make those decisions," he said in a statement. "We've been reporting some of these problems with visas for 20 years, and I find it disturbing that fundamental weaknesses still exist." In 2010, visa officers processed applications for 1.04 million people seeking temporary residence and 317,000 people seeking permanent residence. Canada, with a population of 34.5 million, is one of the few western nations actively encouraging immigration.

^ I knew about this long before I read this article. It seems Canada allows any Third World national to visit and live in the country while it makes it hard for Americans and other Western nationals to so (well it is easy for them to visit but not live.) I personally dealt with Citizenship Canada and something that should have taken 4 months took 2 years - the woman was a complete moron and lacked even basic skills. Canada should tighten its visa issuance to thoroughly screen and "weed-out" those that pose a security or health risk. I just hope it doesn't become too complicated and expansive like the American visa system. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/canadas-visa-system-badly-flawed-watchdog-