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Canadian Immigration Provides Instructions for FSW Backlog Wipe-out Fee Refund

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) issued a notice on Friday instructing those affected by the wipe-out of the pre-February 27, 2008 Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) application backlog to submit a form informing the department of their current address in order to have their fee return processed. Approximately 280,000 FSW applications filed before the Feb. 27th 2008 were wiped out with […]

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Federal Government Loses Legal Battle over 900 Cases in Application Backlog

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The federal government’s efforts to wipe out the 280,000 Federal Skilled Worker Program application backlog through legislation had a major setback today, as a court ruled that the government must process the applications of 900 people who sued the federal government for the delay in the processing of their application, and whose applications were among the 280,000 closed as part of […]

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