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Immigration News Headlines – December, 2015

CIC Operational bulletins
 

 

Summary

This Operational Bulletin (OB) provides information regarding revisions made to the Sponsored Spouse/Partner Questionnaire [IMM 5490 (PDF, 139.87 KB)] and the Spouse/Common-Law Questionnaire [IMM 5285 (PDF, 631.33KB)]. Questions 31 and 13 have been added to the IMM 5490 (PDF, 139.87 KB) and IMM 5285 (PDF, 631.33 KB)forms respectively in order to request the sponsored spouse’s voluntary consent to release to the sponsor the results of any investigation of marriage fraud. These changes are applicable to family class spousal, common-law partner, or conjugal partner applications (categories FC1, FCC and FCE respectively).

Canadian immigration in news
McCallum optimistic Canada can resettle 10,000 refugees by year-end
By Diana Mehta, The Globe and Mail, December 14, 2015The Supreme Court gives a boost to refugees
By Allan C. Hutchinson, The Globe and Mail, December 14, 2015To Those Fleeing President Trump: Welcome to Canada!
By Megan Amram, New Yorker, December 14, 2015Canada trumpets Syrian refugee policy as contrast to Trump’s
By Ravi Mattu, Financial Times, December 14, 2015Meanwhile in Canada, Red Carpet Laid Out for Syrian Refugees
By Lisa Kassenaar & Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg, December 14, 2015‘What Canada is about’: Country gives a warm embrace to Syrian refugees
By William Marsden, Washington Post, December 13, 2015New rules make it ‘nearly impossible’ for employers to keep foreign graduates on staff
By Jason Tchir, The Globe and Mail, December 14, 2015Canada’s refugee program attracts reward all over the world
Star Daily Standard Times, December 14, 2015Canada’s Growing Jihadi Cancer
By Dana Kennedy, The Daily Beast, December 14, 2015

Refugees and the long political journey
By Martin Patriquin, Maclean’s, December 13, 2015

Moratorium on deportations maintained, but long-term plan is needed
By Taylor C. Noakes, CJAD, 800 AM Radio, December 12, 2015

Canadian children welcome their new neighbours

Ikea Canada offers $180,000 in furniture to help refugees feel at home
By Emily Chan, CTV News, December 12, 2015

Chinese investors claim they were guaranteed immigration to Canada
By Jason Proctor, MSN News, December 12, 2015

Give Syrians land, and they’ll land on their feet
By Noah Richler, Herald Opinions, December 11, 2015

This welcoming country
The Globe and Mail, Editorial, December 11, 2015

CN donates $5 million for Syrian resettlement
By Tom Spears, Ottawa Citizen, December 11, 2015

Trumping common sense on refugees
By John Gormley, The Star Phoenix, December 11, 2015

Migration growth is reshaping Metro Vancouver
By Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun, December 11, 2015

Conservative critics seek details about Canada’s refugee airlift
By Daniel LeBlanc, The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2015

Law offers little fallback to B.C.’s migrant farm workers: study
By Jen St. Denis, Business Vancouver, December 11, 2015

Immigration lawyer lobbying government to reopen Ottawa IRB office
By Meghan Hurley, Ottawa Citizen, December 11, 2015

Support systems in place to ease integration of refugees
By Gloria Galloway, The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2015

Ottawa man faces ‘incommunicado detention’ in Algeria, Amnesty Canada warns
By Jim Bronskill, Ottawa Sun, December 10, 2015

As Canada welcomes Syrians, other refugees still lack health care
By Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News, December 10, 2015

Canadians concerned Syrian refugees will strain social services
City News, December 10, 2015

Is Canadians’ support for taking in Syrian refugees increasing?
By Eric Grenier, CBC News, December 10, 2015

Syrian refugee sponsors complain about lack of information from federal government
CBC News, December 10, 2015

As the first planes arrive in Toronto and Montreal, here is what the newcomers will go through and what you can do to help.
The Star, December 10, 2015

We wish you happy and peaceful holiday season
 

 

We are half through the holiday season, only a few days from the beginning of a New Year.
We wholeheartedly believe that you are enjoying the holidays and that you are done with your CPD commitment by now. But we know that there are still many of you who didn’t get around to finish and we sincerely hope that you won’t wait until the last day.
On another topic – please look at the video on the right if you didn’t do so until now. It’s worth watching.

IRC Program delivery updates
 

December 17,  2015

Canadian immigration in news
‘Greed’ blamed after Canada punishes St. Kitts and Nevis over its buy-a-passport program
By Tristin Hopper, National Post, December 28, 2015Liberal immigration targets frustrate former government official
By Stephanie Levitz, Global News, December 28, 2015Time for a reality check on Canada’s generosity toward refugees
By Matthew Fisher, National Post, December 28, 2015The word ‘refugee’ has no meaning anymore
By Arthur Weinreb, Canada Free Press, December 28, 2015Refugee board told gay-bash victim St. Kitts can protect him
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, December 27, 2015Rochester native who sought asylum in Canada lands in Canton
By Alan Rizzo, Watertown Daily Times, December 27, 2015Canada’s biggest news story? Demographics
By Jim Warren, Toronto Sun, December 26, 2015Legacy’ asylum cases lost in refugee shuffle
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, December 26, 2015