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Quebec immigration seeks nurses It is now easier for nurses to qualify for Canadian permanent resident visas under the Quebec Skilled Worker Program. To qualify, single applicants must score 49 points against a points grid. A maximum of 16 points can be awarded for professional training. Under...

Canada's immigration minister moves to employment Jason Kenney, for five years Canada's minister for immigration and multiculturalism, has moved on. He is now the minister for employment and social development after Prime Minister Stephen Harper reshuffled his cabinet on 15th July 2013. Mr...

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Tearing down the ‘Canadian experience’ roadblock Relevant experience as relevant experience, regardless of the geography By: Izumi Sakamoto Published on Tue Jul 16 2013 For decades, we have heard stories about immigrants with PhDs driving taxis, MDs doing clerical work, and chefs working as...

Citizenship and Immigration Canada asks Canadians for views on immigration 03 July 2013 The Canadian immigration minister, Jason Kenney, has asked the Canadian public and a number of 'stakeholders' to submit their opinions about immigration in an extensive online consultation. The consultation...

Latest Canadian immigration figures from the OECD 24 June 2013 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently released its International Migration Outlook Report for 2013. The report contains subsidiary reports on all the 34 countries that make up the OECD including...

Canada welcomes UAE move to scrap visa fees By Shane McGinley 30 May 2013 Canada has welcomed official confirmation the UAE is to waive visa fee requirements imposed on Canadian travellers from June 1, ending a row between the two countries that started in 2010 over aviation rights. “Sincere...

Over one fifth of Canadians are immigrants 20 May 2013 Over 20% of Canadians were born in other countries and have become Canadians by naturalisation, a national survey shows. This makes Canada the country with the highest proportion of immigrant citizens on earth. The National Household Survey...

Canada expels Palestinian for 1968 attack on Israeli airline Mohammad deported to Lebanon where he had gained residency through marriage May 14, 2013 Ottawa: A Palestinian man who lived in Canada for the past 26 years has been deported to Lebanon over a 1968 attack on an Israeli airliner...

Canada reforms temporary immigration visa regime 03 May 2013 Canadian government ministers have announced a U-turn in their policy on temporary foreign workers. The announcement comes after two high profile cases which seemed to show abuse of the system have caused negative headlines for the...

Canadian-immigration-to re-evaluate intra company transfer program 07 May 2013 Jason Kenney, the Canadian immigration minister has said that his department, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), will investigate allegations of abuse of the Canadian Intra Company Transfer Program (ICTP)...

Canada's Federal Court dismisses immigration case of would-be immigrants 23 April 2013 A Canadian judge has ruled that the country's immigration minister, Jason Kenney, did not break the law when he terminated applications for permanent residence visas from some 280,000 applicants in July 2012...

Canadian immigration announces eligible occupations for new skilled worker program 20 April 2013 The Canadian government's main skilled immigration programme, the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), will re-open on May 4th 2013. It was closed down temporarily by Canadian immigration minister...

One billion people crossed international borders in 2012 16 April 2013 In 2012, one billion people made an international trip, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council. David Scowsill of the WTTC said 'this is an astounding milestone. There is an inexorable growth in the number of...

The world wants to emigrate says Gallup poll 04 April 2013 A global poll conducted by Gallup suggests that around 640m people around the world, 13% of the world's adult population, want to emigrate. Most, but by no means all of these come from Asia and Africa; most want to move to find new...

Canadian immigration has cut permanent residence backlog by 40% since 2008 02 April 2013 The Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney gave a somewhat self-congratulatory presentation at Mississauga, Ontario on March 26th 2013 in which he laid out the actions that his department had taken...

Canadian immigration's 'Dragons' Den' visa goes live 04 April 2013 Canada's new Start-up Visa Program (SUVP) was launched on April 1st 2013. The new visa allows foreign entrepreneurs to pitch their idea to a panel of Canadian investors. If the investors choose to make 'a significant...

Mississauga has made into the Top 10 list of best large cities in Canada. Check this out: http://www.moneysense.ca/2013/03/20/top-10-large-cities-in-canada/vancouver/

Canadian immigration announces further changes to Federal Skilled Worker Program 19 March 2013 Citizenship and Immigration Canada has issued a short statement about the Federal Skilled Worker Program. The program is currently suspended but is due to re-open for business in May 2013. The CIC...

Canadian immigration accepts record numbers of immigrants - again 04 March 2013 Jason Kenney, the Canadian immigration minister, has announced that over 250,000 people gained Canadian permanent resident status in 2012. This, he said, means that Canada experienced record immigration during the...