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Canada Skilled Worker Immigration Cap 0f 10,000 Reached

Canada immigration under the federal skilled worker class was to accept only 10000 applications from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has received 10000 applications and overall cap has been reached. The cap of 10000 applications does not apply to the applicants who have arranged employment opinion approved by [...]

Canada Wants an Efficient and Effective Canadian Immigration System

Canadian Minister for Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, has summarized his proposed changes to make the Canadian immigration system more effective and efficient. He said, “Canada is looking for workers who can fill our labour market needs now. My vision for the immigration system is one that can get immigrants here with a job offer [...]

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Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has announced that Citizenship and Immigration Canada will create a pool of Skilled workers allowing the employers to hand pick the applicants for priority processing. Mr. Kenney said,“As the Prime Minister has stated, the Government of Canada is committed to making economic and labour force needs the central [...]

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Canadian Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has unveiled plans to make the process of temporary highly skilled workers getting permanent residency much faster and quicker. Mr. Kenney while announcing the measures said, “Thousands of highly-skilled foreign nationals are working successfully in Canada on a temporary basis.” He further added,  “Expediting their transition to [...]

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Canada is soon increasing the cost to apply as an investor for permanent residency and then subsequently Canadian citizenship. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney unveiled the plan to make amendments in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to empower the minister with greater flexibility to abolish any immigration program that is outdated or introduce changes to [...]

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Canadian immigration officers stationed abroad have been advised to collect information about the applicant’s actions that may not be illegal in their homeland but is a crime in Canada.  The request has been made by the Admissibility Branch at the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as learnt by QMI Agency. For example, domestic violence is [...]

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Did you apply for Canada Immigration as Skilled worker prior to February 27, 2008 and your application has not been reviewed for eligibility yet, then expect a refund and returned application. Canada has plan to returned all the applications submitted prior to February 27, 2008 and refund the fees.Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney [...]

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Sponsored Spouse Barred to Bring new Partner into Canada within 5 years

Spouses who came to Canada and became Canadian permanent resident or citizens will be unable to submit a sponsorship application to bring a new spouse within a period of five year of gaining the permanent resident status effective March 2, 2012. Canadian government has been working to deter the immigration frauds involving marriages and it [...]

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Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada (CIMM) minister’s Jason Kenney has announced that the government is going to take appropriate steps to streamline the procedure to obtain work per permit in Canada. According to the new immigration policy, the local people can employ foreign live-in caregiver if there is not any Canadian national available for the [...]

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