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Canada is extending work permits to family members of temporary foreign workers. Expanding the eligibility for work permits to family members accompanying the principal applicant to Canada will help address labour shortages by assisting employers in finding the workers they need.
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Today the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, released Canada’s 2023–2025 Immigration Levels Plan. The plan embraces immigration as a strategy to help businesses find workers and to attract the skills required in key sectors—including health care, skilled trades, manufacturing and technology—to manage the social and economic challenges Canada will face in the decades ahead.
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For immigration medical examinations (IMEs) done inside and outside Canada, the immigration medical assessment outcome will be entered in the Global Case Management System (GCMS).
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The NOC 2021 version uses TEER categories (Training, Experience, Education and Responsibilities) to classify each job based on the level of training, formal education and experience that is needed for each job, as well as the responsibilities associated with each job. There are six TEER categories (second digit, comparable to the NOC 2016 V1.3 Skill Level 0, A, B, C, D ):
TEER 0 – Management jobs
TEER 1 – Jobs that usually require university education
TEER 2 – Jobs that usually require college education OR ≥ 2 year apprenticeships OR supervisory positions
TEER 3 – Jobs that usually require college education OR < 2 year apprenticeships OR > 6 months on-the-job training
TEER 4 – Jobs that usually require high school education OR several weeks on-the-job training
TEER 5 – Jobs with no education requirement, short on-the-job demonstration training
You need to apply for a new PR card to change the name on your card. Make sure you include documents that support the change.
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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is implementing measures for former international students with expired or expiring post-graduation work permits, and for temporary resident to permanent resident pathway applicants. These measures are building off the announcement made earlier this year.
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After submitted your Canadian Citizenship application via paper, you will received the application AoR (Cxxxxxxxxx) by email which allows you to verify your application status.
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If you’re a licensed representative, you can now submit applications for permanent residence (non-Express Entry) on your clients’ behalf online.
https://prson-srpel.apps.cic.gc.ca/en/rep/login
We’ve created the Permanent Residence Portal for applicants. Representatives can now submit using the same system, through a separate account.
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Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada can sponsor the following members of their family: spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner (opposite or same-sex), dependent children, parents, grand-parents, children adopted from abroad, and under specific circumstances, other relatives. Members of the family class must meet all of the following requirements.
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A foreign national meets the membership requirements of the spouse or common-law partner in Canada class [R124] if all of the following apply:
if they are the spouse or common-law partner of a sponsor (as defined in R130) and cohabit with that sponsor in Canada (Common-law partners must have cohabited for at least one year [R1(1)]
if they have temporary resident status
The federal and provincial governments share constitutional power with respect to marriage (and divorce). The federal government has broad legislative responsibility for divorce and for aspects of capacity to marry or who can legally marry whom. The provinces are responsible for laws about the solemnization of marriage.
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Officers should examine the documents submitted as proof of the relationship to ensure that they are not fraudulent. A spousal relationship or common-law partnership that is not genuine or that was entered into primarily for the purpose of acquiring any status or privilege will be refused (R4).
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A conjugal relationship is one of some permanence, when individuals are interdependent – financially, socially, emotionally and physically – when they share household and related responsibilities, and when they have made a serious commitment to one another.
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Pilot program to exempt permanent residence applicants in the family class or the spouse or common-law partner in Canada (SCLPC)
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Applications under family classes: Assessing the sponsor This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is
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Temporary public policy concerning applications for permanent residence as a member of the family class whose sponsor must meet a
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The Quebec Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) is responsible for determining whether or not to approve a sponsorship undertaking for sponsors who live in Quebec.
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A common-law relationship is legally a de facto relationship, meaning that it must be established in each individual case, based on the facts. This is in contrast to a marriage, which is legally a de jure relationship, meaning that it has been established in law.
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