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Important Immigration Alerts

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA TO TEMPORARILY STOP ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS TO SPONSOR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS; INTRODUCES "SUPERVISAS"

 November 4, 2011

The Government of Canada announced today a new plan that, according to Canada’s Immigration Minister, is aimed to reduce lengthy wait times and reduce the backlog of applications for parental and grand-parental sponsorship. This plan is being referred to as “Phase I of the Action Plan for Faster Family Reunification.”

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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT REQUIRES NEW LMOS AND WORK PERMITS TO BE OBTAINED FOR CHANGES TO SALARY, WORKING CONDITIONS

Since April 2011, Service Canada, CIC and CBSA officers have been assessing applications for both new and extended temporary work permits and labour market opinions (LMOs) with increased scrutiny. In adjudicating each application, particular emphasis has been placed on whether the employing company has continued to pay their temporary foreign workers with wages and working conditions that have been ‘substantially the same’ as those offered in the original application.

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CIC ANNOUNCES PILOT PROJECT FOR SPOUSES AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS TO OBTAIN OPEN WORK PERMITS IN BC - Effective August 2011

August 2011

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has unveiled a Pilot Project which will now allow spouses, common-law partners, and dependent children of temporary foreign workers in British Columbia to obtain an open work permit. This pilot project, which will operate from August 15, 2011 to February 15, 2013, is similar to the pilot projects currently operating in Ontario and Alberta.

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CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PROVIDES CLARIFICATION ON ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE INTRA-COMPANY TRANSFEREES

On July 4, 2011, Citizenship and Immigration Canada released a new operational bulletin, providing further clarification and guidelines in the assessment of work permit applications under the Intra-Company Transfer (Specialized Knowledge) category.

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