Immigrants who want to start a small business in Canada face some extra hurdles in the process. This was the case for two Romanian tech experts who turned down high-paying jobs at Google and Facebook to pursue a technology startup in the city of Vancouver.

Most countries are desperate to attract this kind of talent, because their business idea has the potential to make millions. The two have developed an algorithm that would go through the news feed in a person's social network and summarize the top news stories. This has gained them venture-capital backing in both the US and Canada, but the two entrepreneurs still lack a clear option for gaining permanent residency status in Canada. Many talented immigrants who face similar barriers, such as Canada's rules for entrepreneur immigration which require $300,000 in net worth.