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Immigration News Headlines – January, 2016

Immigration policy must be codified into law
By Shashi Tharoor, DNA India, January 18, 2016

John McCallum nixes Frank McKenna’s idea on immigration
CBC News, January 18, 2016

International students can run for SSMU executive positions
By Astha Agarwal, McGill Daily, January 18, 2016

Ottawa agencies overwhelmed by fast pace of refugee arrivals
By Julie Ireton, CBC News, January 18, 2016

Hillyer: Immigration applicants should have tracking numbers to help process
By Gillian Slade, Medicine Hat News, January 18, 2016

Immigration is good for you
The Slovak Spectator, January 18, 2016

Immigration to Canada: Last round for Quebec starts today
By Majorie van Leijen, Emirates 24/7, January 18, 2016

Foreign caregivers wait years to call Canada home
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, January 17, 2016

Red tape slowing immigration process for several would-be Canadians
By Gillian Slade, Medicine Hat News, January 16, 2016

A Canadian Reader Writes On Being Called A “White Supremacist”
VDare.com, January 16, 2016

Imperial Oil faces human rights complaint over cancelled job offer to Pakistani man
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, January 16, 2016

Mom who fled U.K. with sons gives up fight to stay in Canada
By Carmela Fragomeni, The Hamilton Spectator, January 15, 2016

Family questions rigid sponsorship system
By Ben Spurr, The Star, January 15, 2016

Refugee arrivals to Vancouver paused as agency scrambles to find housing
By Tara Carman, Vancouver Sun, January 15, 2016

Court gives man reprieve on deportation to Ukraine
By Hugh Adami, Ottawa Citizen, January 16, 2016

IMMIGRATION FOR A COMPETITIVE CANADA
PDF file, January 2016

Halifax man helped thousands pretend they were in Canada to get around citizenship rules
By Adrian Humphreys, National Post, January 14, 2016

‘Ghost consultants’: How fraudsters con Canada’s immigration system – and their clients
By Douglas Quan, Vancouver Sun, January 14, 2016

Express entry, foreign worker reforms attract ‘fewer’ skilled workers: chamber report
By Susana Mas, CBC News, January 14, 2016

Ottawa man’s family reunification plan stalled by wife’s stateless status
CBC News, January 14, 2016

Courier mix-up could cost family another year of waiting to be reunited
By Ben Spurr, The Star, January 13, 2016

Feds have year to review parent-and-grandparent sponsorship: McCallum
By Stephanie Levitz, CTV News, January 13, 2016

World immigration in news
Asylum centre costs more than world’s most exclusive hotels
By David Barrett, The Telegraph, January 18, 2016Germany makes first arrest in connection with mass sex assaults

By Frank Jordans, The Globe and Mail, January 18, 2016Immigrants must improve English in two-and-a-half years or face deportation, says David Cameron
By Christopher Hope, The Telegraph, January 18, 2016

It’s time to face the truth about immigration – starting with the facts about who’s most likely to commit crime
By Ian Birrell, Independent, January 17, 2016

Iceland’s Immigrants The Most Employed In The World
By Paul Fontaine, Grapevine, January 18, 2016

Embace immigration as price of progress
By Richard G Malloy, The Times Tribune, January 17, 2016

Two Tales Of Hardworking Aussie Immigrants
By Emily Verdouw, The Huffington Post, January 17, 2016

Cologne attacks: American woman tells how Syrian refugees rescued her from New Year’s Eve sexual assault
By Lizzie Dearden, Independent, January 16, 2016

Merkel ally threatens legal action over refugee policy
By Michael Nienaber, Reuters, January 16, 2016

Denmark’s new plan to deter migrants: Seize their valuables
By Jan M. Olsen, PhilStar World, January 17, 2016

Austria deploys army to halt migrants intending to transit through Germany
By Michael Dalder, rt.com, January 16, 2016

Denmark introduces controls at German border
By Alicia Cross, Pop Herald, January 16, 2016

Jewish immigration to Israel from western Europe hits an all-time high following rise in anti-Semitic attacks
By Kalhan Rosenblatt, MailOnline, January 15, 2016

Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica finally begin journey to US
The Guardian, January 13, 2016

Norway tells refugees who used cycling loophole to enter to return to Russia
By Alec Luhn, The Guardian, January 14, 2016

IRCC Backgrounders
 

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January 21, 2016

Program delivery updates
 

Minor editorial corrections to the instructions on the retention of citizenship prior to attaining 28 years old
Update to lock-in date for age of dependent children of provincial nominees

Canadian immigration in news
It is time for Canadians to demand that immigration rules be tightened
By Thomas Pratt, The Rebel, January 25, 2016

Immigration minister in favour of refugees settling in French-speaking areas
By Jeremy Keefe, Global News, January 18, 2016