Canada could be on the verge of more qualified employees President Donald Trump added a fee of $ 100,000 For H-1B visa applications.
This very last step is aimed that it is more difficult for enterprises to attract highly qualified candidates from the United States, increasing the fee for new applications for H-1B visas to $ 100,000.
Earlier, the fee ranged from 2000 to $ 5,000 for companies seeking to attract highly qualified foreign workers to this country often in the technological sector.
Industrial and legal experts say that some of the Canadian immigration and visa systems can be lightly facilitated for mainly highly qualified workers, including in the technical sector to move to Canada and stimulate the economy – or they can go to another place.
If enterprises or private individuals do not want to pay additional fees in order to attract some qualified foreign workers in the United States, then these candidates can look for opportunities in another place.
“I think the fee will fix part of the demand and create the opportunity for some of these employees to contact Canada,” says Bill McGregor, lawyer in citizenship and immigration and partner of Gowling WLG.
“So that Canadian employers can look at this population – I think that the answer is yes, some people are going to do it. So this is beneficial for the Canadian labor market. ”
Why is Trump aimed at certain visas?
The H-1B program was created in 1990 for candidates, with a bachelor's degree or higher to work in the United States, and can serve as a way for some holders to move on to constant residence.
Technological companies based in the USA, including Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook), Amazon and Apple for many years use the H-1B visa program as a way to fill out vacancies with the best candidates available throughout the world, not only in the United States
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“He is very attractive to people who receive it, because it is also a path to constant residence, which does not correspond to all visas or work permits, and this was the main mechanism for a long time to ensure the technological industry,” says Daniel Vigdor, professor of the Toronto University and general director of the venture studio studio of artificial intelligence.
“The number of them is limited every year, and there is some kind of race to get H-1B in the first few months of the year every time. They (technological companies) strove for Congress to try to expand the program-evidently, this is the main opposite of this.“
How can Canada win?
When it comes to highly qualified workers, Canada offers several options for work permits, including Global talent stream, which is part of the current program of a temporary foreign worker.
Legal experts say that the global stream of talents is very similar to the H-1B visa in the United States, and in a sense it can actually work better in comparison.
This can facilitate Canadian firms to attract talented of them from abroad who want to come to North America, but now they may encounter a large number of difficulties that will be hired in an American company due to a visa cost of $ 100,000.
“Unlike the H-1B system in the USA, there is no quota. And therefore, it is relatively fast, which is great for employers who need to try to solve the lack of their skills, ”says McGregor.
Nevertheless, he says that there are several more key spacers between the types of visas offered for highly qualified foreign workers in Canada, compared to the United States that could complicate the staff set.
“The Americans have additional visa programs that are more categorical, including the O-1 visa, which is intended for those who have extraordinary abilities, and a short-term internship called J-1. Canada seems to unite a whole pile of this material together in a temporary foreign worker, ”says Vigdor.
“We saw real problems when very highly qualified people cannot work here. My graduate students from Toronto University, who are foreign students, they can go to the United States to conduct summer internships, but they cannot pass summer internships in Canada because there is no equivalent of the J-1 program. ”
Wigdor says that many of these highly qualified workers can do things such as creating and growing companies that can stimulate the growth of jobs at a time when The labor market is weakened exposure to tariffs and trade war.
“Unfortunately, we did this too difficult, and therefore I saw incredibly strong candidates, their applications for permanent residence are delayed for years and years,” says Vigdor.
“These are people with doctors of sciences who founded the company, and it is precisely people who can help advance these things ahead. We must absolutely do more to open and allow all these incredible technological leaders to come here and create excellent work for Canadians. ”
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