Despite overseeing animal care at one of the Middle East’s largest dairy farms, Canadian immigration officials deemed a Kenyan veterinarian unqualified ...
Scores of Canadian agricultural operators are struggling to find staff. Many have cast a wider net for quality employees, but dealing with the bureaucracy and seemingly arbitrary rulings made by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada decision-makers is proving a challenge.
The company runs 1,300 head of cattle across 5,500 acres, employing 11 full-time and five part-time workers. “There’s 20,000 dairy cows and he’s hands-on every day in artificial insemination and reproduction.”Documents shared with National Post show a work permit was applied for in December 2021, and subsequently rejected in May 2022.
The educational requirements for the Labour Market Impact Assessment for a herdsman position lists “secondary school” as a requirement, which he far exceeds. After 18 months of appeals and attempting to clear his name, the couple finally gave up and moved in with a relative in Vancouver. Finding farm management work in South Africa, he said the job offer at KT Ranches was the fulfillment of his desire to work in Canadian agriculture.
“We stopped trying to obtain work permits for seasonal workers out of South Africa a long time ago,” he told National Post, requesting anonymity out of concern for his business and clients.
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