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How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. If you want to make it attractive

by klipt 5y ago

How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. If you want to make it attractive to live in some region, just create good jobs there and people will follow. Trying to force immigrants to live there if there are no good jobs sounds like a terrible bandaid.

valarauko 5y ago
> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. I'll preface this by saying that this my anecdotal understanding of the Canadian immigration process. Essentially provinces can nominate the immigration of certain desirable professionals, boosting their cases to the top of the queue for an immigrant visa. It comes with a requirement to live and work in the sponsoring province for a minimum period of time - something like 3 years. Immigrants are also eligible to apply for citizenship after 3 years of residency, and citizens have the right to live and work anywhere. From my understanding of the provincial nominee system is that they strongly prefer that you have an existing social and family network within the province, encouraging you to stay put even after you become a citizen.
vlovich123 5y ago
First, green card != citizenship. You don't get citizenship until 5 years have passed & residency limits are typically in the 3-5 year range, not beyond. Once someone establishes roots for 3-5 years, they usually stick around there long term anyway (unless they're young & childless). Secondly, you know how you fill out taxes every year & you have to say where your primary residence was for tax purposes? That's how you enforce it.
908B64B197 5y ago
> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. My understanding is that there's one province (Quebec) that select it's own immigrants (quotas are per province). They can't force anyone to stay so they tune their selection algorithm to match profiles that are most likely to stay.
- arcticbull 5y ago
  I believe each province can nominate individuals under PNP. [1] [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/provincial-nominees/works.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
sumedh 5y ago
> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? You could ask for proof of purchase from local stores, check the address of the employer to see if the employer is located in that area. Check train/bus tickets. > if there are no good jobs sounds like a terrible bandaid. It depends, maybe you need workforce in some occupations in that area, so you tell immigrants who have expertise in that domain to stay in that area and fi you spend X years you will get the citizenship after that you are free to move in the country. Its a fair deal, if the immigrant does not like he/she just wont come.

by klipt 5y ago

valarauko 5y ago

> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. I'll preface this by saying that this my anecdotal understanding of the Canadian immigration process. Essentially provinces can nominate the immigration of certain desirable professionals, boosting their cases to the top of the queue for an immigrant visa. It comes with a requirement to live and work in the sponsoring province for a minimum period of time - something like 3 years. Immigrants are also eligible to apply for citizenship after 3 years of residency, and citizens have the right to live and work anywhere. From my understanding of the provincial nominee system is that they strongly prefer that you have an existing social and family network within the province, encouraging you to stay put even after you become a citizen.

vlovich123 5y ago

First, green card != citizenship. You don't get citizenship until 5 years have passed & residency limits are typically in the 3-5 year range, not beyond. Once someone establishes roots for 3-5 years, they usually stick around there long term anyway (unless they're young & childless). Secondly, you know how you fill out taxes every year & you have to say where your primary residence was for tax purposes? That's how you enforce it.

908B64B197 5y ago

> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? Once someone is a citizen they can move anywhere within the country. My understanding is that there's one province (Quebec) that select it's own immigrants (quotas are per province). They can't force anyone to stay so they tune their selection algorithm to match profiles that are most likely to stay.

arcticbull 5y ago
I believe each province can nominate individuals under PNP. [1] [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/provincial-nominees/works.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...

sumedh 5y ago

> How do you enforce regional restrictions on immigration? You could ask for proof of purchase from local stores, check the address of the employer to see if the employer is located in that area. Check train/bus tickets. > if there are no good jobs sounds like a terrible bandaid. It depends, maybe you need workforce in some occupations in that area, so you tell immigrants who have expertise in that domain to stay in that area and fi you spend X years you will get the citizenship after that you are free to move in the country. Its a fair deal, if the immigrant does not like he/she just wont come.