Canada Visa & Immigration News
Canada eliminates the Four-Year limit on temporary foreign workers
On December 13, 2016, the Government of Canada eliminated the "four-in, four-out" rule. In April, 2011, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) implemented a rule that limited some temporary foreign workers to a maximum of four (4) years. Effective...
New application process for Parent & Grandparent sponsorship program
Today, December 14, 2016, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced the changes to the application process to sponsor parents and grandparents this coming 2017 intake period. The intake period begins on January 3rd, 2017. Canadian sponsors...
Less than 1 month to prepare an application to sponsor parents and grandparents
The Parent and Grandparent sponsorship program (PGP) will re-open on January 3rd, 2017. With an intake cap of only 10,000 applications, Immigration Canada is expecting to receive well beyond that number. This means that those who are not ready to submit their...
Processing times for spousal sponsorship cases to be cut in half
On December 7th, 2016, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada's immigration Minister, John McCallum announced that the federal government will be reducing the processing times of in-Canada spousal sponsorship applications to approximately 12 months. Up until now, processing...
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