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In its latest Express Entry draw, Canada issued 761 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) to Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) candidates with a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 742 on Wednesday. That’s 10 points higher than the previous PNP draw on Sept. 15. The draw on Sept. 29 comes roughly two weeks after Canada has conducted an
The immigration section of a national association representing lawyers, judges, notaries and law teachers and students throughout Canada is urging Ottawa to speed up the processing of applications for immigration. “The pandemic has caused major disruptions in processing immigration applications,” wrote Mark Holthe, chair of the immigration law section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s newly-re-elected Liberal government is eyeing a loosening of restrictions for those applying for refugee status, documents obtained by the Sun News Network reportedly reveal. “No longer will claimants need to prove, for instance, that they face torture or death if forced to return to their home countries. Nor will they have
Canada will start sending out the new round of Invitations to Apply for the Parents and Grandparents Program from Monday September 20. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is to accept 30,000 new applications for the popular program, with ITAs to be sent out over a two-week period. IRCC is randomly selecting from those who submitted
Canadian immigration officials are telling anyone who applied for a visitor visa before Sept. 7 – the day the country opened its borders to all fully vaccinated travellers – to re-apply if their situation has changed and they are coming for one of 10 reasons. Those reasons include coming to Canada: to be reunited with
Canada has extended for a second time a COVID-19-related policy that allows visitors to get work permits without having to leave the country. An announcement from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Tuesday said the temporary public policy would be extended until February 28, 2022. The policy was first implemented on August 24, 2020,
Graduates from four private career colleges in New Brunswick will be able to apply for permanent residency starting next April under a new pilot program. “This initiative is something we have been working on for quite some time and we are pleased to get it across the line,” said Labour Minister Trevor Holder. “Newcomers are
La tentative d’Ottawa de reconstruire son Programme de parrainage pour les parents et les grands-parents (PPGP) cette année en réduisant les revenus nécessaires aux parrains et en augmentant le nombre d’invitations à postuler survient à la suite d’un coup dévastateur pendant la pandémie de COVID-19. En 2015, le programme était responsable de 15 490 nouveaux
Canada is to become a safe haven for all those who promote and defend human rights and face persecution wherever they might be throughout the world. Under a new permanent residency pathway, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is pledging to resettle up to 250 ‘human rights defenders’ per year, including their family members, through
Ottawa is giving a break to applicants for immigration who are already in the country and pose a low risk to the health of Canadians by removing the need for an additional medical exam. “These measures will help streamline application processing for low-risk, in-Canada applicants, while effectively managing public health risks,” states Immigration, Refugees and
