Low-skill Provincial Nominee Program Applicants to Face Language Requirements

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Low-skilled applicants for Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) will be required to pass language tests to immigrate to Canada according to an announcement by the Immigration Ministry on Wednesday in Saskatoon. Until now, provinces have been relatively free to determine their own criteria for nominating foreigners for immigration to Canada, but Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said this has allowed a large […]

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Canada Immigration Minister says Foreign Doctors could be ‘Fast-Tracked’ into Canada

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In an interview in the London Health Sciences Centre on Tuesday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced that the Canadian government is looking to fast-track foreign-trained doctors to help fill Canada’s shortage of physicians. “It’s critical our immigration system respond to current and future shortages and across the spectrum of the labour market” Mr. Kenney said in the interview. The reports of the […]

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Canadian Government to introduce ‘Startup Visas’ for Foreign Entrepreneurs

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In a joint announcement today, Kevin O’Leary’s venture capital firm, O’Leary Ventures, and the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Ministry introduced a new ‘Startup Visa’ for foreign entrepreneurs looking to start a company in Canada. The Canadian government will be consulting with venture capitalists and other leaders in the startup industry over the next few months to get their input on […]

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Immigration Canada Offices in St. John and Manitoba “Not Closing”

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Earlier reports that the Citizenship and Immigration Canada offices in Winnipeg Manitoba and St. John’s Newfoundland would be closing have been corrected by CIC authorities. Neither office will be closing. According to the latest clarification from a representative at the St. John’s office, staff at the office will be reduced by one employee and the office will remain open. The […]

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Immigration Canada to Create New ‘Skilled Trades Worker’ Program

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The federal government will be creating a new Federal Skilled Worker Program specifically for tradespeople later in the year, that is intended to help meet Canada’s shortage of skilled trades labor. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney remarked that “we are facing huge and growing labour shortages in Canada, particularly here in the West and in Alberta” at a construction site in Calgary […]

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Update on Canadian Government’s slashing of pre-2008 Skilled Worker applications

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As posted earlier, the Conservative government proposed to eliminate 280,000 applications filed before February 27th 2008 for the Federal Skilled Worker Program. Here are some questions that you may have: Will I be affected by the proposed changes? Under the proposed changes, CIC would close Federal Skilled Worker applicants’ files if they: applied before February 27, 2008, and have not had a decision made […]

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Canadian Government to Create International ‘Job Bank’

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As part of the revamp to Canada’s immigration assessment system, the federal government has announced that it will create a ‘job bank’ in which all immigration skilled worker applicants will be placed, and from which Canadian employers and provinces will be able to recruit. Those immigration applicants selected by a Canadian employer or province would then have their applications fast-tracked, […]

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Canadian Government to Legislate Elimination of 280,000 Immigration Applications

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The Conservative government proposed to eliminate 280,000 applications filed before February 27th 2008 for the Federal Skilled Worker Program in last Thursday’s federal budget. If this proposal is approved, as it is expected to be, the hundreds of thousands of applicants affected will either have to give up on their hopes of immigrating to Canada or re-apply under new immigration […]

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Europe’s Economic Problems Causing Rise in European Immigration to Canada

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The increase in the unemployment rate in many European countries due to the economic problems those countries have been facing after decades of very high social welfare spending levels, and most recently, the financial crisis of 2008, has led to a significant increase in the number of Europeans applying to immigrate to Canada, as described in a new report by Brian […]

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Refugee Activists say new Bill violates Canadian Charter, Federal Government Says Bill Necessary to Protect Canada

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The “Justice for Refugees and Immigrants Coalition”, a refugee activist group, made a public statement on Monday denouncing Bill C-31, a proposed update to the Immigration and Refugees Protections Act, charging that it violates the Canadian Charter of Rights. The bill would strengthen the ability of Canadian immigration authorities to deport refugee claimants and prevent claimants from remaining in Canada through a long […]

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