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Q: is it more difficult this year for chinese to get visas an emigrate to canada, and usa?.
I am not canadian, but i have heard locals are having more problems to get visas and emigrate to usa and canada, it seems some towns in canada are full of chinese buying houses and settling down there.
I don't know if it is getting harder or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. I guess the countries with "house for visa" or "set up company for visa" policies were expecting something else than hoards of savages from a few centuries ago as candidates. They should read this forum more often
Full reciprocity on emigration policies is the way to go. One apartment, no rent, no guarantee of stay, no long term anything and no citizenship. Just like foreigners in China, no more no less.
JacobJohn:
Exactly!
BTW! No mercy here, no compassion over there. At least they know the notion of both of them, unlike China.
Search on the internet & you'll find that Canada has just stopped its Immigrant Investor Programme while it re-evaluates it. There was a backlog of maybe 60,000 applicants, about 90% of whom were mainland Chinese. It was discussed on here at the time.
what about New Zealand?
DrMonkey:
NZ immigration changed their requirements a bit this year.
* Skilled migrant category : they require a slightly better minimum score at IELTS. In theory, you can come without a job offer, if you have a PhD and several years of provable experience in your field, if it's a field in NZ shortage list. That's theoretical, because if you don't have a job offer, you have to pass an interview, and I have no idea of how it goes.
* Business category : the criterias are much more stringent. Either you are millionaire, either you can convince that your business will employ several Kiwis. You can no longer come under this category saying "I gonna open a restaurant, can haz residency kbthx"
why settle for sub standards ? come to Australia if you qualify for immagration you will do fine here . just don't turn up on a boat or you will be settled in PNG or Narrui
Percivile:
Substandard? If your spelling is any indication of the quality I'll stay home.
Yes, I just had a friend denied and she really should have been granted a visa as there was an invitation letter and she owns property and has a kid and husband in China. She said she'd read online beforehand a lot of Chinese were being rejected.
@ Percypuller That would be a wise move on your behalf, as we hate dick heads here 
Visas are impossible to get, my latest idea is to duct tape a girl to me and wear a fat suit. At least the long flight would be better.
It is becoming harder and it's a good thing, now that Chinese have trashed their country the wealthy ones are looking for a new heaven to ruin. I've heard that in Vancouver, BC the rich Chinese buy dozens of houses and do not rent them, these peoples think that houses are investments and not homes, because of them the real estate prices are skyrocketing right now and many people just can't buy or rent decent places anymore.
The main difference between them and other peoples is that they have no morals, not even the basic ones, they are still in a mindset of survivalist inherited from the Mao era when everything was scarce and people would fight for rice or vegetables. It's not a problem for them to trash the entire neighbor as long as they are making money out of it, then they will blame others when they lose money because of a drop in land value, because who wants to live in a dump site?
On one hand, I've always believed that more or less free immigration and open borders are more or less the way to go. But looking at China and realizing that the rich people here are mainly not entrepreneurs or artists, but rather corrupt officials with no moral standards what so ever I'm not so keen on the whole open borders thing anymore. This sucks for the truly ambitious and smart Chinese, but I guess this wouldn't be the first time they get fucked over by the CCP.
