Immigration Alert & Events
ACCELERATED LABOUR MARKET OPINION
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- Created on Thursday, 03 May 2012 04:09
NEW “START-UP” VISA FOR ENTREPRENEURS
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- Created on Thursday, 26 April 2012 09:31
Economic Action Plan 2012 highlighted Canada’s commitment to supporting entrepreneurs, innovators and world class research.
NEW REQUIREMENTS TO COME FOR THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE CLASS
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- Created on Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:15
Under the Canadian Experience Class, international students and temporary foreign workers can apply for permanent residence in Canada provided they meet several mandatory requirements.
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HRSDC INTRODUCES ACCELERATED LMO PROCESS
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- Created on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 04:33
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has confirmed that a new program to issue positive Labour Market Opinions (LMOs) on an accelerated basis has been introduced, effective April 1, 2012. The intent is to issue LMOs for pre-screened employers within 10 days of date of submission of the application. Precise details have not yet been published, and on a practical level, the program cannot yet be implemented. However, preliminary details regarding the program are as follows:
2012 FEDERAL BUDGET : CIC WILL STOP PROCESSING SKILLED WORKER APPLICATIONS FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE FILED BEFORE 2008
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- Created on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 04:18
With the release of the 2012 federal budget, Canada’s Conservative government has introduced – yet again – drastic changes impacting the immigration system and more particularly, the adjudication of applications for permanent residence to Canada.
SPONSORED SPOUSES TO RECEIVE TWO YEAR CONDITIONAL PERMANENT RESIDENCE
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- Created on Monday, 12 March 2012 18:24
On March 2, sponsored spouses or partners are ineligible to sponsor a new spouse or partner for five years from the day that they are granted permanent residence status in Canada.
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5 YEAR BAR ON SPOUSAL SPONSORSHIP APPLICATION
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- Created on Friday, 09 March 2012 17:25
As of March 2, 2012, sponsored spouses/partners must wait five years from the day they are granted permanent residence status in Canada if they wish to sponsor another spouse/partner.
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA TO TEMPORARILY STOP ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS TO SPONSOR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS; INTRODUCES "SUPERVISAS"
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- Created on Monday, 23 January 2012 17:28
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
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- Created on Monday, 23 January 2012 17:16
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.
CIC ANNOUNCES PILOT PROJECT FOR SPOUSES AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS TO OBTAIN OPEN WORK PERMITS IN BC - Effective August 2011
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- Created on Friday, 20 January 2012 16:59
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.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT PROVIDES CLARIFICATION ON ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE INTRA-COMPANY TRANSFEREES
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- Created on Friday, 08 July 2011 18:31
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.
CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSION IN NEW DELHI IS IMPLEMENTING STRICTER MEASURES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF INTRA-COMPANY TRANSFER WORK PERMIT APPLICATIONS
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- Created on Tuesday, 11 January 2011 00:00
Since the IT Workers Pilot Program was eliminated on September 30, 2010, there has been a significant increase in the number of work permit applications processed at the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, India under the LMO-exempt Intra-Company Transfer category. As a result of this influx, the High Commission has started to implement stricter measures in the assessment of intra-company transfer work permit applications for specialized knowledge personnel.
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