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hey guys! has anyone hear of PINOYCARE VISA CENTER? or who applied their services? I recently attended their orientation seminar here in davao city and they said that the CIC would shell out immigrant visas for nurses for as early as 9 months, is this true?

I talked again the some of the local nurses who are using Pinoy Care, and they for the moment seem happy with what is going on.

I think Pinoy Care helps the applicants "get around" the troublesome requirements, such as settlement funds and employment verification. I plan on attending the next local presentation by Pinoy Care just to see for myself what the attraction is.

Zeromike22 - from what I have seen, Alberta is not accepting IENs right now, BC and other provinces (Manitoba and Ontario??) require the SEC assessment, so my suggestion is to apply to the three Atlantic Provinces - Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick. The application fees are all less than $150. Cdn. Good luck!

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AB, BC, SK have stopped recruiting overseas. AB has had a hiring freeze for nearly one year. Less than 50% of last years new grads found employment with AHS which is the main employer in AB. Ontario is having similar issues.

Nurses are relocating to find work in their own country.

PEI is a very small province which traditionally along with most of the Maritimes have hired their own grads.

Try reading some of the threads in the Canadian forum and see what is concerning nurses working in Canada.

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I talked again the some of the local nurses who are using Pinoy Care, and they for the moment seem happy with what is going on.

I think Pinoy Care helps the applicants "get around" the troublesome requirements, such as settlement funds and employment verification. I plan on attending the next local presentation by Pinoy Care just to see for myself what the attraction is.

Zeromike22 - from what I have seen, Alberta is not accepting IENs right now, BC and other provinces (Manitoba and Ontario??) require the SEC assessment, so my suggestion is to apply to the three Atlantic Provinces - Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick. The application fees are all less than $150. Cdn. Good luck!

Naaahhhh you are ultimately responsible for your settlement funds (if their is any).. Regarding "employment verification" Pinoycare is not into direct hiring. They don't have any tie-ups with employers who hire nurses in Canada. Their main job is to give you a visa which you can process by yourself anyways...

Thanks for your advice... I'll look up around this 3 atlantic provinces you've mention..

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Zeromike22-

What I have been told is that Pinoy Care will get you an immigrant visa under the Skilled Worker category. My above comments related to the requirements for this visa as shown on the CIC website -

1) "you have at least one year of continuous full-time paid work experience or the equivalent in part-time continuous employment..."

This is the employment verification I was talking about. If Pinoy Care accepts applicants who do not meet this standard, and they do, then they must advise the applicants essentially to lie about it. All of the nurses I talked to who are clients of Pinoy Care are recent graduates, and no way do they have 1 year of full-time paid employment as a nurse!

2) Proof of Funds - again from the CIC website:

"You must show that you have enough money to support yourself and your dependents after you arrive in Canada."

For a single person, it is $10,833, about 500,000PhP. Zeromike22, if you have these funds, more power to you, as they say! Pinoy Care will lend you the money, at no interest, for as long as required to get the bank certification. Then you give the money back.

I went to a presentation lately by a different visa service, who also promised to get you into Canada. They charge monthly interest on their loan. The speaker smiled when she said that when you go for your interview, make sure you don't tell the visa officer that you borrrowed the funds! So this requirement must be a joke!

I recently spoke to the nurses association office in NS and PEI. Both were aware of recent hires from abroad, so maybe there is still a chance for employment there.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Well I live in NS and although there are jobs available I am seeing less and less jobs advertised. PEI is a small Island and it costs $42.50 every time you want to leave the Island by car (per car) and to live in Canada generally a vehicle is required. The Island is busy during the summer months and slows down a lot when the weather changes and gets colder.

I am sure when Pinoy Care lends you the money and then tells you to not tell the immigration officer that you have borrowed the money that this could be seen as fraud and have serious implications on you and your application. When you are asked to provide proof of support this is for a reason so that you can not try and claim income when you haven't contributed anything towards it.

Paperwork for FSW is not hard to complete and all forms are available on the CIC website. It sounds as if Pinoy Care Center is trying to circumvent ways to get a visa and that if caught will have a serious impact on themselves as well as their clients. Also remember when you complete the college nursing requirements they will ask what sort of nursing experience you have and NS are being to ask for SEC type assessments if they are not happy with your transcripts or experience, believe me as I have been affected and am coming towards the end of completing my requirements.

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It's sounds like this company is doing the taxpayers of Canada a great disservice. Yet, posters using this service have the gall to complain about SEC?!.

The taxpayers deserve to feel safe in their hospital beds and not have to worry is their IEN is safe to practice or paid someone to say there were.

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Fiona, I believe this sort of behaviour is just another example of the corruption that the Philippines is known for!

When a nursing supervisor, or hospital administrator sign a phony employment history for Nurse Mary, then indeed, they are doing a great disservice to not only the taxpayers of Canada, but also to any legitimate applicants for immigration IMHO.

This practice unfortunately is not new, and not limited to any one agency. I cannot speak to whether this sort of thing is also common in other countries like India, where I understand there are also many nursing graduates who go abroad.

Can anyone explain to me how these people with no real money are then able to pass through immigration at our borders? Once on a trip to the US, I was taken aside and every cent in my possession was counted. I would assume that border agents in Canada have the same authority?? If only a couple of immigrants were deported because of lack of settlement funds, I am sure the word would spread and soon the cheating would decrease.

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Hi, I am new to this but I just want to share also the experience I have with this visa center. I signed up around October 2009 and submitted my complete requirements around Nov. 2009. Since the time I passed my documents, I received no feedback from them with regards to the status of my application. Then, I thought about texting them and usually, there was no reply. Finally, I decided to call them. They usually had the same answer-their head wasn't there all the time. They're all dependent to their head when it comes to checking the papers (imagine the large number of applicants and only one person to review them before they were passed to the document analyst). I was very frustrated because for 2 months, I kept on calling and I was given the same answer. Finally, around Jan 2010, they said that my documents were already reviewed. This really took persistence on my part because I had to call them everyday...yup, I really did. They sounded annoyed everytime I called but I really don't care. I paid their processing fee and I think that I should have the service that I am asking for. Finally, they sent me via email my application forms for final review and lodged it this month. I am still waiting for the outcome. To those who haven't applied in a consultancy, then I suggest that you would go to the Canada's official website. There is a step by step instruction there how to fill up the form. If I had known about it earlier, then I would have applied on my own. It will save you a deal of money too. If you have signed up in Pinoycare, then just follow up all the time..believe me, it takes patience.

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hi danny poks,

we as rns are educated and smart enough to assess the authenticity of pinoyako2.so dont mind coz i can assure you she/he is either a non-prof or troublemaker.let pinoycare shine..i do have faith.as for you pinoyako2 instead of creating intrigues just pray for all nurses whose endeavors are to have a better life for their families.or..come out in the open if you are really real.may god bless us all..

creating intrigues? fyi, those are facts! all those users apparently have the same join dates, i don't think that's mere coincidence! you can check there profiles if you want to, come to think of it. you also have the same join dates as them. i bet your from pinoycare too! which is good! i'm glad that pinoycare has found out about this online! so that they would be aware!!! and be scared and stop misleading and scamming people and getting their act straight. have you read the rest of posts in this article, 3,4,5 people have attested that pinoycare did not process their applications after paying!

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hello to you again pinoyako2...you are already kind of obvious that you have personal intentions to destroy pinoycare.pretty sure you are not a client not a nurse.come out in the open but sure ill advise pinoycare about this matter.my cousin got his visa thru pinoycare.ill ask permission from him if i can post it here. your allegations to pinoycare is exactly your own doing.but god wont allow your plans to succeed.besides pinoycare is a giant company to be destroyed thru blogs of unknown people like you

hello? there is nothing to destroy about pinoycare because they're already a messed up agency! i am a nurse, and my friend applied with pinoycare, i am speaking in behalf of him and all your other disappointed clients! whom you robbed 65,000 pesos from. i challenge you to post you cousin's visa here! go on!

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Hi. I had an experience with Pinoy Care last 2008. Well, to make the story short, I paid a downpayment of 10k right on the spot after the orientation (it was really convincing), for me to avail their 50k (professional fee) promo instead of 65k but did not push through with the application due to having second thoughts, doubts and the lack of helpful info regarding the agency during that time, and did not pay up the remaining 40k which i need to pay in a week after my retainer fee. A couple of my acquaintance though (classmates from nursing school) did went on with theirs. And one of them, after countless calls and visits to their office, was able to have his docs lodged at the embassy and is now prepping for a Medical, after almost 11 months. His partner however, who filed the application to Pinoy Care together with him, both of them having the same documents, same post-license experience, was declined due a document which the agency failed to proof read. The documents were with them for a long time and they said during the orientation that they proof read all docs several times before sending them out and it seems that they failed to do that. It just gave me the impression that it was a good call on my part for not pushing through with mine.

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oh sir, do you think USSI can help..i just attended the seminar this evening..i need it badly...of course the issue is investment..is it reasonable?can USSI really help?i have a pending immigrant visa procesing in u.s., i passed all the exams..i am becoming impatient and tired of waiting for u.s...for the meantime, i would like to try canada...maybe after how many years of working in canada, u.s. would surely lift..however, pinoy care visa center and ussi really helpful?i am planning to pay tomorrow..please reply..thanks

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