CIC News
Canadian Immigration News (2013)Ottawa to play matchmaker for foreign workers
Globe and Mail, January 1, 2013
Nova Scotia nominates highest number of immigrants to date
The Halifax News, January 1, 2013
Canada at 150: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to highlight value of citizenship as part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebration
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News, January 3, 2013
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CIC News Headlines (2013)
Canada Issues Record Number of Visitor Visas from Chandigarh
Ottawa, January 11, 2013
New Federal Skilled Trades Program Accepts Applications Starting Today
Ottawa, January 2, 2013
Building an Immigration System that Works for Canada
December 10, 2012
Facilitating Travel to Canada – Canada to Begin Collecting Biometrics from Certain Foreign Nationals
Ottawa, December 7, 2012
States Begin Giving Driver’s Licenses to Young Immigrants
By Daniel C. Vock,, Stateline (USA), December 7, 2012
Migrant workers give poor countries three times the money foreign government aid supplies
By Lily Quo, Quarts, December 2, 2012
Romanians and Bulgarians could flock to UK, MP says
By Wesley Johnson, The Telegraph, UK, December 4, 2012
Immigrant Caregivers in Spain Hit Hard by Crisis
By Inés Benítez, Inter Press Service, Spain, December 8, 2012
The month of August, 2014 saw a drop by nearly three quarters on the same month in 2012 in the number of applications made to hire temporary foreign workers.
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Meetings are taking place across Canada, with more being planned, to make sure business and leading employers are ready for the country’s new Express Entry immigration programme which launches in 2015.
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A newly released government study suggests newcomers to the country have misgivings about Ottawa’s intention to ensure would-be immigrants possess skills that are in demand in Canada.
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Today, Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that Canada has welcomed its 150,000th new citizen of 2014. This is double the number of new citizens compared to the same period in 2013 and thanks to the action taken by the government to reduce backlogs and improve processing times.
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Startup Visa application needs to be accelerated. A pilot project announced by Ottawa last year to attract foreign startups has so far completed just two applications, but the cabinet minister responsible promises to speed up the process.
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The Government of Canada today announced that Canada and the United States (U.S.) are delivering on key Beyond the Border Action Plan commitments related to joint Trusted Traveller and Trusted Trader programs, including the official opening of the eGate pilot project that allows NEXUS members extended expedited passage at the Peace Bridge port of entry in Fort Erie, Ontario.
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Cut-off age for immigrant and refugee children will change from 21 to 18 on Aug. 1 as Canada lets economic motives determine immigration policy.
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June 19, 2014 — The Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, (Bill C-31), received Royal Assent and became law today which resulted in the termination of applications in the backlog of the federal Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) and federal Entrepreneur Program (EN).
IIP and EN applications have been terminated if a selection decision was not made by an immigration officer before February 11, 2014. There are a small number of cases where a selection decision was made on or after February 11, 2014, and the application was processed to completion and a final decision was made before Bill C-31 became law. Those applications are not affected by the legislation.
House Republicans offered a dozen recommendations Wednesday to address the illegal immigration crisis.
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Sponsored parents’ immigration program is the next program to have measures introduced to limit the inventory of applications in the system. The 4 measures announced today also contemplate introduction of a long-term visit visa, increase admissions, continue public consultations, and freeze the intake of new applications with immediate effect.
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The federal government is imposing a two-year moratorium on immigration applications from parents and grandparents, starting immediately.
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The federal government says it will repair Canada’s broken family reunification system by boosting the number of parents and grandparents accepted into Canada, imposing a moratorium on new applications, and introducing a new “supervisa” for extended visits.
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Federal announcement welcomed as a good ‘first step’ in combating labour shortage
Canada is expanding the number of international students granted permanent resident status, while also making it easier for foreign PhD students to gain status through a new federal immigration initiative announced Wednesday.
The announcement was welcomed by Dennis Yim, a Korean international student who wants to stay in Canada after he graduates next month from Vancouver Community College.
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As Citizenship and Immigration Canada conducts ongoing public consultations on the mix and number of immigrants the country should take in, a pioneering study has offered a powerful argument for prioritizing “skill-assessed economic immigrants,” whose earnings levels, the study has found, far exceed those of other kinds of immigrants.
Motivated in part by the rapid rise in the overall level of immigration, which has continued despite the economic downturn, as well as changes in the type of immigrants admitted, a pair of Queen’s University economists are weighing on several contentious aspects of Canadian immigration policy just as that policy is being reviewed.
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