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Immigration News Headlines – August, 2021

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August 10, 2021

Program delivery updates

IRCC Sex and Gender Client Identifier Policy
August 9, 2021

New eligibility criteria for the Temporary public policy to further facilitate access to permanent resident status for out-of-status construction workers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
August 6, 2021

Protected persons’ applications for permanent residence – digital intake and MIFI updates
August 6, 2021

Resettlement – COVID-19 program delivery
August 5, 2021

Express Entry draw # 200

August 5, 2021

Canadian Experience Class

Number of invitations issued: 3,000

Lowest score: 404

Tie-breaking rule: August 3, 2021

IRB News

Refugee Protection Division approach to scheduling
August 9, 2021

IRCC News

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on clients’ immigration plans
August 4, 2021

Exploring clients’ recent IRCC application experiences
August 5, 2021

CBSA News

August 9, 2021: Border changes

Fully vaccinated foreign nationals will be allowed to enter Canada for discretionary travel on the following dates if they meet specific criteria:

August 9: American citizens and permanent residents of the United States, who currently reside in the United States, who meet specific criteria to qualify as fully vaccinated
September 7 (tentative): All other foreign nationals who qualify as fully vaccinated

The 3-night hotel stopover requirement ends for all travellers scheduled to arrive by air after 12:01 A.M. EDT on August 9.

Direct flights from India

Transport Canada extending restrictions on direct flights from India until September 21, 2021
August 9, 2021

Immigration news

Halifax woman fighting odds to sponsor cousins from Lebanon amid country’s severe economic collapse
By Nebal Snan, Saltwire, August 10, 2021

Belarus’s use of migrants to hurt EU shows ‘desperation’
By Henry Foy, FT, August 10, 2021

An ‘impossible’ choice: Leave 5-year-old son in foster care or risk being tortured
By Brian Hill, Global News, August 10, 2021

Lawyer who called for elimination of citizenship tests named to bench
By Western Standard, August 9, 2021

Bureaucratic red tape is leaving Afghan refugees on the tarmac, Canadian veterans warn
By Annie Bergeron-Oliver & Ben Cousins, CTV News

August 9, 2021

More planes landing, but stranded Afghan interpreters not on board
By Joe Warmington, Toronto Sun, August 9, 2021

Closure of immigration program leaves thousands without rights
By Shazia Nazir, Toronto Star, August 9, 2021

SCC won’t hear refugee lawyers’ challenge to ‘jurisprudential guides’ with factual determinations
By Cristin Schmitz, The Lawyer’s Daily, Aug. 9

Let top students and skilled workers stay to drive economic recovery
By Lisa Visentin & Nick Bonyhady, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 9, 2021

Despite new border measures, a record number of migrants fled to U.K. this year
By Paul Workman & Jeremiah Rodriguez, CTV News, August 8, 2021

Canada wants immigrants but the pandemic is in the way. So it’s looking to keep people already there.
By Amanda Coletta, National Post, August 7