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Canada has placed a temporary pause on invitations for new high-skilled immigrants through the federal component of the Express Entry system, representing a quarter of the annual intake, as officials struggle to tackle a growing backlog of applications. An Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) memo seen by the National Post estimates the current inventory
Three big Canadian cities – Toronto, Vancouver, and Edmonton – rule the roost as the top places where immigrants like to stay put after they’ve settled in Canada. Those cities have the best immigration retention rates in Canada, according to a Statistics Canada report. Read More Canada Gives Break To Immigrants With Medical Conditions By
Canada has made history by reaching its target of 401,000 immigrants in 2021 – the highest total in a calendar year in its history. Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced the record on Thursday, as permanent resident numbers surpassed the previous record set in 1913. The milestone, which comes despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Canada has extended the period international students can complete their studies online and still qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP). Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says 100 percent of online studies between March 2020 and August 31, 2022 can count towards the PGWP. Normally, Canada does not allow any online studies to count
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)
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,
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
