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Canadian Provinces Urge for Greater Role in Immigration Policies

Immigration was a priority matter during the meeting of Canada’s premiers in Halifax as immigrants play key role in the growth of the provincial economies. The provincial leaders want more control over the immigration and urged the federal government to increase the immigration quota for provinces. Some even wants the control over immigration similar way [...]

British Columbia’s (BC) administration has announced the suspension of its visa program for foreign investors amid concerns of a recent surge in applications. According to BC officials, the immigration authorities in the province have claimed that there are some concerns regarding a surge in inflow of applications and have suspended their Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), [...]

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The Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been allowed to nominate 200 additional immigrants under its provincial nominee program for the year 2012, thus increasing the quota to 700 immigrant nominations per year. The Nova Scotia premier Darrel Dexter has welcomed the move by the Canadian federal government and said that he wants to increase [...]

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Manitoba Announces New Pre-arrival Immigration Services

The Canadian province of Manitoba has announced a new pre-arrival immigration services plan for provincial nominees (PNs) settling in Manitoba. The announcement was made this Monday September 17th, 2012, by Premier Greg Selinger of Manitoba at a pre-arrival settlement orientation and labour market preparation session for such provincial nominees. The Premier stated that the new [...]

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Investigation of PEI investor immigration program closed

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Canada Border Services Agency initiated an investigation into the claims of corruption in Prince Edward Island’s (PEI) Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) last fall on direction by the Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.  The Canada Border Services Agency has announced closing the probe after finding now credible evidence of corruption and [...]

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Chinese immigrant applicants are expressing their frustrations to the Canadian government saying that they have not been refunded the money that they had invested in a Prince Edward Island (P.E.I) troubled immigration nominee program in 2008. The Chinese nationals claimed that their applications were rejected by Ottawa 2 years ago but they are still waiting [...]

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Alberta Adds More Professions for Work Permits

Canadian province of Alberta has added six more high demand skilled professions to expand the Temporary Foreign Worker pilot project enabling the Alberat employers  to hire highly skilled foreign workers in the following in-demand occupations with immediate effect: Welder Heavy duty equipment mechanic Ironworker Millwright and industrial mechanic Carpenter Estimator The announcement of expansion of [...]

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Saskatchewan Reconsidering Family Sponsorship Change

Canadian provincial government of Saskatchewan recently announced a number of changes to Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Programme (SINP) including one that limited the number of family members who can be sponsored for Canadian permanent residency at a time. The Minister for Advanced Education Employment and Immigration in Saskatchewan Bill Boyd has indicated that Saskatchewan government is [...]

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