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The current Canadian administration, as part of its ongoing efforts to transform the Canadian immigration system, is closing its Buffalo, New York visa office. This is one of the largest Canadian visa offices in North America, currently responsible for processing thousands of applications each year.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published its annual Better Life Index report. For 2012, it ranked Canada as one of the ten best countries in the world in terms of the quality of life that its citizens enjoy.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced that its new Parent and Grandparent Super Visa program has been incredibly successful in its first 6 months of operation. Since the program was introduced on 1 December 2012, over 3,500 visas have been issued.
The Quebec Government announced yesterday a comprehensive plan to reduce processing times for permanent residency applicants to Quebec.
As mid-February approaches, Canada continues to celebrate Black history until the end of the month.Black History Month started as an American tradition, originally referred to as ‘Negro History Week’ and lasting for this shorter time span. It was expanded to a full month and celebrated for the duration of February ever since 1976.
Iranian immigrants coming to Canada via one of its investor programs can once again transfer required funds between Iran and Canada, as of January 25th, 2012.Last November 22nd, the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade – as part of sanctions against Iran – made it illegal to transfer more than $CAD40,000 to Canada from Iran without a permit for the specified transaction issued by the Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird.
The first 2012 Canadian census numbers were released today highlighting Canada’s population growth.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has reported that:
On January 31, 2012, [HRSDC] and Statistics Canada replaced the 2006 edition of the National Occupation Classification (NOC) with a 2011 version.
Yesterday was the beginning of the Chinese New Year which will be celebrated for fifteen day in communicaties across Canada.
For the next two weeks the Chinese New Year will be celebrated in communities across Canada.
A new study by the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) shows that Canada has the most multicultural workplaces of the four countries analyzed, being Canada, the United States, England, and France.
We want to wish all of our readers and clients, at CanadaVisa.com, and Campbell Cohen, happy holidays and a fruitful new year.
As of December 5th, new candidates to the Quebec Skilled Worker program who want to receive points for language for French and/or English, will have to submit test results along with their application.
A final step during the application for Canadian Permanent Resident status, submitting your passport to the visa office so it can be stamped, is no longer necessary for citizens from Visitor Visa exempt countries.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada will be moving more of its business progressively online, says Minister Jason Kenney, with impending changes to include the ceasing of the printing and mailing out of forms and application kits starting December 1st.
The amount of money the federal government allocates to provinces to help in the settlement of new immigrants has expanded significantly in the last half-decade, and is being spread more accurately to reflect their destinations within Canada.
Today, November 11th, Canada celebrates Rememberance Day, like the rest of the Commonwealth countries, which recalls the end of World War I, on this day, in 1918.
While there is humanitarian justification, as well as has been proven an economic benefit, the Canadian government plans to cap new refugee claims under the private sponsorship program, under the justification of reducing a growing backlog.
The Government of Canada will soon be announcing conditional visas for those sponsored under Canada’s Family Class Spousal Sponsorship Program in attempt to curb marriage fraud. There was speculation that this change would be considered, but Canadian officials are now confirming that the conditional visa will be introduced later this year.
From October 17 to 23 Canada celebrates Citizenship Week. This celebration attracts over 4,000 people from across Canada to participate in activities to reflect on citizenship and Canadian values. More than 60 Canadian citizenship ceremonies are taking place around the country where Canadians will reaffirm their commitment to Canada.
Canada has put an end to an ineffective refugee program in order to put more efforts into working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and refugees in greatest need of Canadian help.
Thanks to a unique Canadian program, new Canadian citizens are offered a free 12-month entrance pass to attractions across the country. The program is called the Cultural Access Pass, CAP, and is managed by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship. The program is quickly gaining popularity. Three years ago only six facilities participated. Now, the program enrols 80 citizens a day with over 1,000 attractions across the country.
A recent compilation of rankings by the U.S. website Newsweek found Canada to be the third-best country in the world to be a woman.
Canada has become the first country to sign the Ottawa Protocol on Combating Anti-Semitism. The Protocol, which developed during the Interparliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) in Ottawa last year, is aimed at stopping hatred and discrimination, including anti-Semitism.
Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs (Americans and Consular Affairs), recently announced improvements to make Canada more easily accessible for Latin American travellers.
Beginning next month, CICNews.com will be adding a new Q&A feature to its monthly newsletter. Readers will have the opportunity to send in their Canadian immigration questions to be answered by Attorney David Cohen.
