Canadian Study: University completion rates among children of immigrants

Children of immigrants tend to achieve higher levels of education than children of Canadian-born parents, but there are wide differences in rates of completing university among young people of different national origins.

Youth of Asian immigrant parents, except for Filipinos, had higher rates of obtaining a university degree by the time they were aged 25 to 34 in 2002 than most youth of European origin.

University completion rates ranged from over 65% for youth of immigrant parents from China and India to 24% among second-generation German and Central and South American youth. As a benchmark, about 28% of the children of Canadian-born parents had completed university by the time they were aged 25 to 34. Nearly one-third of youth whose parents were from the Caribbean, Portugal and the Netherlands completed university education.

The higher university completion rates among children of Chinese and Indian immigrants remained when differences among the youth in abilities in the two official languages and parental educational levels were taken into account. These are important factors that influence the likelihood of youth completing university.

Courtesy: http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/080922/d080922b.htm

Unrest in Mangalore

Civil unrest in Mangalore on account of attacks on Christians.

Details at the links below:
- Daiji World
- First person account, Mangalorean.com
- DesiCritics
- IBNLive.com

Canada parents sponsorship - Timeline and dates

Following are the processing date and timelines for parents sponsorship to Canada from the New Delhi, India visa post.

If you too have your application submitted, please post your dates and timelines in the comments section of this post and I'll add it to the main post. Thanks.

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As of Date - Processed upto (In Canada + Visa post wait upto 36 months additional)
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Nov 20, 2005 - Sep 16, 2003 (26 months)
Dec 23, 2005 - Oct 16, 2003 (26 months)
Jan 30, 2006 - Nov 3, 2003 (27 months)
Feb 27, 2006 - Dec 8, 2003 (27 months)
Mar 27, 2006 - Dec 22, 2003 (27 months)
Apr 25, 2006 - Jan 16, 2004 (27 months)
May 29, 2006 - Feb 6, 2004 (28 months)
Jun 26, 2006 - Mar 18, 2004 (27 months)
Jul 31, 2006 - Apr 17, 2004 (27 months)
Aug 28, 2006 - Apr 26, 2004 (28 months)
Sep 25, 2006 - May 26, 2004 (28 months)
Oct 30, 2006 - June 25, 2004 (28 months)
Nov 27, 2006 - Jul 15, 2004 (28 months)
Jan 29, 2007 - Sep 22, 2004 (28 months)
Feb 26, 2007 - Nov 15, 2004 (27 months)
Aug 21, 2007 - Jul 7, 2005 (25 months)
Jan 7, 2008 - Nov 24, 2005 (25 months)
Feb 4, 2008 - Jan 3, 2006 (25 months)
Mar 31, 2008 - May 8, 2006 (23 months)
Apr 28, 2008 - May 30, 2006 (23 months)
Jun 02, 2008 - Jun 22, 2006 (23 months)
Jul 02, 2008 - Jul 12, 2006 (24 months)
Jul 28, 2008 - Jul 21, 2006 (24 months)
Aug 18, 2008 - Jul 27, 2006 (25 months)
Sep 2, 2008 - Jul 31, 2006 (25 months)
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Hug a developer (video link)

http://develop-one.net/blog/2008/08/27/HugADeveloper.aspx