IRCC News
Ottawa, September 1, 2017

IRCC Notice
Ottawa, September 1, 2017

IRCC Program delivery update
August 31, 2017
August 31, 2017

Canadian immigration in news
By Cathy Dobson, The Sarnia Journal, September 5, 2017
By Les Perreaux, The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017
The Globe and Mail, September 4, 2017
By Mary Wiens, CBC News, September 4, 2017
By Douglas Todd, Edmonton Journal, September 4, 2017
By Adrian Morrow, The Globe and Mail, September 4, 2017

By Kathleen Harris, CBC News, September 3, 2017
By Angelo Persichilli, Toronto Sun, September 2, 2017
By Douglas Todd, Ottawa Citizen, September 1, 2017
Toronto Sun, September 1, 2017
By Justin Li, CBC Canada, September 1, 2017
By Jim Bronskill, The Globe and Mail, September 1, 2017
By Howard Anglin, Maclean’s, September 1, 2017
By Dave Battagello, Windsor Star, September 1, 2017
By John Ibbitson, The Globe and Mail, September 1, 2017
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, September 1, 2017
By Alexandra Paul, Winnipeg Free Press, September 1, 2017
By March Montgomery, Radio International Canada, September 1, 2017
By Andrew Griffith, Policy Options, September 1, 2017

Rhonda’s practice tip
International Students

Do you work with international students yet?  This is a great area of practice if you’re just getting started or if you want to add an additional line of business.  One of the reasons to get into this line is because you can get commission from educational institutions and you may also be able to collect fees from the international students for doing the Study Permit application. Helping international students with a study permit application is usually the first step in a long relationship:
  • Study permit extension or change
  • PGWP
  • PR application – CEC, PNP, FSW
  • Spousal sponsorship
  • PGP sponsorship
Getting started can be a real challenge. Finding Canadian educational institutions that will pay you isn’t easy.  Lots of them don’t pay anything and don’t want to work with a representative. Large prestigious universities usually have their own dedicated staff who are tasked with international student recruitment. They aren’t interested in hearing from one RCIC telling them that they have a (single) student who wants admission. So where does that leave you? 

Don’t despair, there are still a lot of Canadian education institutions that are looking for help with international student recruitment. It’s good for them, because international students pay considerably higher tuition fees than Canadian citizen or PR students. It also adds to their cachet if they can boast about having a well-rounded, international student population that welcomes new students. So look for smaller universities and colleges, technical institutions, school boards and other educational outlets.

But the institutions still want to know that you can actually help them deliver fee paying bums on seats. You’ll have to be prepared to tell them about yourself and what you can offer them:
  • additional professional services in the form of assistance to the students with their study permit applications.
  • your history as an RCIC with the professional standards and requirements
  • your history as a business person, whether you have a company, a business license and so on. Some institutions insist on the business license and prefer to work with someone in a company (your own or a company you work for)
  • if you have dealt with international students before and what kind of volume you might be able to secure
  • what geographic market you’re working in because some markets are over subscribed in Canada already. The institutions might be quite interested if you can indicate that you can open new markets for them.
What do you want from them:
  • commission
  • fast turn-around for admission applications (I worked with a university once that took three months to look at an application for admission!)
  • program information and admission requirements
  • marketing materials about the institution that you can pass out to students and their parents, including brochures, CDs, posters and so on.
Some institutions have a section on their website for aspiring international student agents. You can contact them directly and work out an agreement. If they don’t have anything like that, you can just contact them and see if they work with international student agents.  In addition, every year, ICEF holds an International Education Workshop in Canada. It’s like a matchmaking service where education institutions and international student agents come to meet each other. It is very well organized and short appointments, very much like speed dating, are arranged to get agents and institutions connected. See: https://www.icef.com/en/workshops/icef-north-america-workshop-toronto/

Then your job is to actually find those international students and get them into the classrooms in Canada. You may have to do recruitment trips overseas to geographic areas where you know there is a demand for the excellent product you are promoting – education in Canada. Holding open houses or seminars is a great way to talk about education in Canada and all the institutions you represent.

Keep in mind that it’s often not the international student themselves who will make the decision on where the student goes, but the people who controls the purse strings – the parents. Parents want to know several things:
  • their child will be safe – Canada has an excellent and well-earned reputation for safety, security and political stability
  • their child will be welcome – Canada’s multi-cultural policies are alive and well at Canadian educational institutions
  • the money they pay will be worth it – Canada has a world class reputation for higher education and their children are most likely to obtain a well-regarded and internationally recognized educational credential
  • are there immigration opportunities after the studies are complete – talk about PGWP, CEC, PR and so on.
You might find that the geographic market you work in is very competitive and it might be impossible to charge fees for the study permit application. But you know that once the student is in place in Canada, has paid their tuition and is attending classes, your commission cheque will be on its way to you. Hopefully this is an area of practice that RCICs will take over in the next few years. Good luck!

IRCC Program delivery update
September 11. 2017
September 6, 2017

Ministerial instructions – Express Entry draw # 71
September 6, 2017 – Number of ITA: 2,772 – CRS: 435 points

Canadian immigration in news
By Shanifa Nasser, CBC News, September 11, 2017
By Luisa D’Amato, The Record, September 11, 2017
By Phila Siu, South China Morning Post, September 11, 2017
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, September 10, 2017
By Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, September 10, 2017
By Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News, September 10, 2017
By Shree Paradkar, The Star, September 10, 2017
By Barry Hertz, The Globe and Mail, September 10, 2017
The Licia Corbella, Calgary Herald, September 9, 2017
By Alex Soloducha, CBC News, September 9, 2017
By Candice Malcolm, Toronto Sun, September 8, 2017
By Amanda Connolly, iPolitics, September 8, 2017
By Sebastien Malo, Reuters, September 8, 2017
By Sara Mojtehedzadeh & Brendan Kennedy, The Star, September 8, 2017
By Alexandra Paul, Winnipeg Free Press, September 7, 2017
By Stephanie Levitz, Global News, September 7, 2017
Hamilton Spectator, September 7, 2017
By Amanda Connolly, iPolitics, September 6, 2017
By Guidy Mamann, Toronto Sun, September 6, 2017
By Andrew Russell & Brian Hill, Global News, September 6, 2017
By Maura Forrest, National Post, September 6, 2017
By Catherine Porter, The New York Times, September 6, 2017
By Sonia Puzic, CTV News, September 6, 2017
By Scott Fenwick, iPolitics, September 6, 2017
By Rachel Marsden, NewsMax, September 6, 2017
By Dan Delmar, Montreal Gazetter, September 5, 2017
By John Ibbitson, The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017
By Paul Chiasson, The Globe and Mail, September 5, 2017

World immigration in news
The Star, September 11, 2017
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian, September 11, 2017
By Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times, September 10, 2017
The Local (DE), September 10, 2017
Reuters, September 9, 2017
By Alex Soloducha, CBC News, September 9, 2017
By Jan M. Olsen, The Chronicle Journal, September 9, 2017
Fox News, September 9, 2017
National Post, September 9, 2017
By Derek Schally, The Irish Times, September 9, 2017
By Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, September 8, 2017
U.S. News, September 8, 2017
Daily Astorian, September 8, 2017
By Beckty Little, History, September 7, 2017
By Ruth Alexander, BBC News, September 7, 2017
Reuters, September 7, 2017
By Andrea Grunau, Mara Bierbach, Deutsche Welle, September 7, 2017
By Rachel Marsden, NewsMax, September 6, 2017
By Ben Doherty, The Guardian, September 6, 2017
By Matthew Doran, ABC News (AU), September 5, 2017
By Zoe Daniel, ABC News, September 5, 2017

By Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg, September 5, 2017

By Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, September 5, 2017

IRCC Program delivery update
September 18. 2017
September 15, 2017

Canadian immigration in news
By Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute, September 19, 2017
By Blair Sanderson, CBC News, September 18, 2017
By Nick Eagland, Vancouver Sun, September 18, 2017
By Marc Montgomery, Radio International Canada, September 18, 2017
By Doug Sanders, The  Globe and Mail, September 18, 2017
By Ethel Tungohan, rabble.ca, September 18, 2017
By Dean Beeby, CBC News, September 17, 2017
By Laura Krantz, Boston Globe, September 16, 2017
By Nicholas Keung, The Spectator, September 15, 2017
By Michael Friscolanti, Maclean’s, September 14, 2017
By Rebecca Hamlin, The Washington Post, September 14, 2017
By Ellwood Shreve, Chatham Daily News, September 13, 2017
CBC News, September 13, 2017
By Scott Neigh, rabble. ca, September 12, 2017
Ottawa Citizen, September 11, 2017

World immigration in news
By Rosie Lewis, The Australian, September 19, 2017
By Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico, September 18, 2017
By Oliver Holmes & Ben Doherty, The Guardian, September 18, 2017
By Nick Miroff, The Washington Post, September 18, 2017
By Richard Partington, The Guardian, September 18, 2017
By Suchitra Mohanty & Krishna N. Das, Reuters, September 18, 2017
By Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian, September 18, 2017
By Gardiner Harris, The New York Times, September 18, 2017
By Alex Reilly, Kevin Johnson & Mireille Paquet, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2017
The Sydney Morning Herald, September 16, 2017
By Nikolaj Nielsen, EU Observer, September 14, 2017
By Zoe Tabary, Reuters, September 14, 2017
By Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post, September 15, 2017

IRCC Program delivery update
September 21. 2017
September 21, 2017
September 21, 2017
September 20, 2017
September 20, 2017

Ministerial instructions – Express Entry draw # 72
September 20, 2017 – Number of ITA: 2,871 – CRS: 433 points

Canadian immigration in news
Newsline, September 25, 2017
By Marie-Danielle Smith, National Post, September 25, 2017
By Nicholas Keung, The Star, September 25, 2017
By Ryan White, Calgary CTV News, September 22, 2017
By J. J. McCullough, Press Herald, September 22, 2017
By Morganne Campbell, Global News, September 22, 2017
By Laura McQuillan, HRM Online, September 21, 2017
By Steven Meurrens, Meurrens on Immigration, September 21, 2017
By Jeremy J. Nuttall, The Tyee, September 22, 2017
By Tom Blackwell, National Post, September 21, 2017
By Paul Kariya, Vancouver Sun, September 21, 2017
By Andrea Gunn, The Chronicle Herald, September 20, 2017
By Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International, September 20, 2017
By Catherine Solyom, Montreal Gazette, September 20, 2017
By Andrew Russell & Brian Hill, Global News, September 19, 2017
By Douglas Murray, Gatestone Institute, September 19, 2017

World immigration in news
By Andrew Chung & Mica Rosenberg, The Globe and Mail, September 25, 2017
By Niall Ferguson, The Globe and Mail, September 25, 2017
By Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardina, September 25, 2017
New Zealand Herald, September 25, 2017
By Adam Ozimek, Forbes, September 23, 2017
By Michelle Martin, Reuters UK, September 24, 2017
BBC News, September 22, 2017
By Daniel McLaughlin, The Irish Times, September 22, 2017
By Fanis Karabatsakis, U.S. News, September 22, 2017
By Joshua Berlinger & Tain Kopan, CNN, September 21, 2017

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