In the early 1900s my father's mother and father emigrated from Ireland, and then they had to go back to care for a sick relative.
I'm still trying to get this ideal waiting time thing worked out in my mind. I'm thinking of all the reasons that family class immigrants, who are not in a position of desperation, as refugees are, might put off travelling, or what might make them not worry about waiting 12 months, if that's the ideal time. They may want to sell a house or a car. They might save more money, finish a project, or say goodbye to friends. The birth of a baby might put off their ideal travel time; they might have to take care of a sick relative or have a medical procedure. I'm trying to understand the push and pull on this. I think we're sometimes assuming that everybody's waiting with their bags packed, ready to go, and that's not true. I think you might be being too hard on yourself.
I want to ask you about the immigrant investor class, because it says here that in 2008 immigrants invested over $550 million after the number of cases processed annually went from 1,000 to 2,000 in 2007.
If that went up to 10,000, say, it appears to me that the potential is billions of dollars worth of investment. Is that correct?