During the past couple months, our office has received several frantic phone calls from people (often real estate agents or bankers) telling us that a family who was immigrating to Canada under a Provincial Nominee Program was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency
Read more ›Manitoba is located in the prairies. Its population is the fifth largest in Canada, at 1,232,654. It’s capital city is Winnipeg, where 60% of Manitoba’s population live, and is where four of the province’s five universities are located. It also has Canada’s most successful provincial nominee program.
Read more ›In addition to the family class stream and the availability of an exemption to a visa requirement based on humanitarian & compassionate grounds, it is possible for low-skilled workers to immigrate under provincial programs designed to facilitate permanent residency for people in certain “low-skilled or semi-skilled” occupations. In British Columbia, this program is known as the “Entry-Level and Semi-Skilled Pilot Project”.
Read more ›Effective August 23, 2010, the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program is no longer accepting applications under either the AINP U.S. Visa Holder Category or the Family Stream. Any applications that were postmarked before August 23rd will continue to be accepted.
Read more ›According to CIC, during the past 12 months the approval rate for different application streams for permanent residence has been as follows: Immigration Category Approval Rate Economic Quebec Skilled Workers 97% Federal Skilled Workers (Pre-C-50) 57% Federal Skilled Workers (Post C-50) 21% Entrepreneurs 76% Self Employed 45% Investors 82% Provincial Nominees 96% Live-In-Caregivers 99% Canadian Experience Class 85% Family Parents and Grandparents 91% Spouses & Partners 83% Dependent Children 80% Family Class (Other) 70% Humanitarian Government Sponsored Refugees 76% Private Sponsored Refugees 69% Refugee Dependents 86% H&C Applications 70% FCH – […]
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One of the most complicated topics in immigration law is determining when procedural fairness will require an immigration officer who is assessing an application to seek clarification in the form of a fairness letter or interview. As the Supreme Court of Canada noted in Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) the the concept of procedural fairness is eminently variable and its content is to be decided in the specific context of each case. When a visa officer does not rely on third party extrinsic evidence to make a decision it can […]
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