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A comment on Canada's Start-up Visa. Parent comment

Re:Canada's Start-up Visa by cperciva on Monday July 22, 2013 @05:04PM (#6086449)
They probably want to avoid the "fictitious investor" problem -- without the "Canadian" requirement, Canada would get lots of people jumping the immigration queue by having their friends and family "invest" in their "startup".

(There's already a way for rich people to buy their way into Canada, but it takes around a million dollars instead of a hundred thousand.)

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Re:Canada's Start-up Visa by barry-cotter on Monday July 22, 2013 @08:39PM (#6087449)
A million dollars and an opaque amount of waiting time. Just having the money and fulfilling the stated requirements doesn't reliably get Chinese people into Canada. May differ for other nationalities.
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