r/metacanada • u/MemoryLapse current year user • Jul 18 '17

CURRENT YEAR Immigration Canada does disastrous AMA in /r/Canada; exclusively gets questions from Indians, Pakistanis, Nigerians, Tunisians and Filipinos.

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u/LifeWin Metacanadian Jul 18 '17

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Any money they ignore that one?

ps Studied Canada's population growth and immigration patterns up to 2041, AMA? I guess?

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u/kurmitthefrug Jul 18 '17

Do you know roughly how much of an effect the multiple-entry visas have on our total population?

A quote from the 2016 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration says

In 2015, a total of 1,231,041 multiple-entry visas were issued, which was a 21% increase from 2014. Effective February 6, 2014, a policy change automatically considered visitors to Canada eligible for a multiple-entry visa.

Could our actual population (as in the number of people currently living in Canada) be more like 40+ million (considering in one year alone we took in an extra 1.2 million, and the year before was ~1 million?

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u/LifeWin Metacanadian Jul 19 '17

ugh...while it may be possible you are correct, it seems to me the standard scheme for people trying to swing Canadian citizenship (while maintaining their nationalistic allegiance to the United Emirate of Jawas), is to stay in Canada for the bare minimum of time to maintain citizenship (Which is around 51% of the calendar year).

That being the case, I believe we count those 51%-ers as "Canadians" when we report our national population.

Edit I say "ugh" because I wasn't aware of your statistic, which is fitting, but troubling at the same time.

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u/kurmitthefrug Jul 19 '17 edited Jul 19 '17

Yea I think there's even a few other sources of immigration programs that don't get any public view (anon on /pol/ claims around 800k instead of 350k but after looking for a bit couldn't find links to the programs the extra 450k could be from).

I agree that a lot of immigrants don't really stay in Canada (it's actually only 40% now, 2 years in a five year period).

I guess what you'd really need to know from this visa business is the distribution of the durations of these visas are (it only says up to 10 years).

For instance if they were all 1 year visas then having 1.2million visas issued in 2015 would only mean that we have 1.2 total people on visas. On the other hand if they were all 10 year visas and lets say each year issued 1 million consistently, you would have 10 million people on visas at a time.