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A recent audit of Nova Scotia’s immigration program has raised concerns with the results showing failures to properly verify employers who were granted 6 month work residency as well as properly documenting and tracing the fees that had been paid by the immigrants which had amounted to over millions of dollars. Nova Scotia’s, Jacques Lapointe who is the auditor general found in his research that 211 immigrant had been paid immigration fees that were as high as $130,500 as part of the work program that allowed them to be aligned with a business employer. However, Lapointe found that the immigration program failed to make sure the immigrant was properly aligned with a business that had matched their work skills. In fact, 14 out of every 16 immigrants who had paid the fee to work in Nova Scotia were not aligned with a business mentor that matched what their previous job experience had been.

The study also showed that the immigrants were not being placed at the level of employment they had originally been promised as part of the work program. In addition, the business involved with the program were suppose to have regular monitoring however the audit showed this did not take place. For participating in the immigration business work program the companies were paid $100,000 out of the workers fee they paid. The study showed that the business turned around and only paid the employee $20,000 and kept the $80,000 that was left over.

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