The following is a summary of information about an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) tool called Lighthouse. Lighthouse is a prototype risk detection tool developed by IRCC’s Advanced Analytics Solution Centre (“A2SC”). Lighthouse aims to automatically identify and summarize historical risk patterns for IRCC officials. It can be used to support frontline decision makers or to understand historical risk patterns. As the Memorandum to the Director General, Operational Planning and Perfromance Branch memo notes below, it is essentially a data-mining tool that identifies and presents fact-based information. The pattern reports that are used in Lighthouse are intended to provide sufficient evidence of any individual pattern. All patterns are “self-contained” in that they are intended to stand on their own merit regardless of the rest of the system. Encrypted data and model information is currently being retained to allow A2SC to recreate a model on-demand and provide the underlying data to explain how Lighthouse patterns were produced and why applications matched against these patterns. In 2020 Lighthouse uncovered over 800 unique risk patterns, some of which led to identification of larger-scale fraud trends.
The Family Class
Legislation Regulation 1(3) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (the “IRPR“) defines a family member as being: the spouse or common-law partner of the person; the dependent child of the person or of the person’s spouse or common-law partner; or a dependent child of a dependent child referred to in paragraph (b). Regulation 117 of the IRPR lists the following as being members of the Family Class. Spouse, Common-Law Partner, Conjugal Partner Dependent Child Adopted Child Parent, Grandparent Orphaned Brother, Sister, Niece, Nephew, Grandchild Other Relative Process The typical application process for a Family Class application is: Sponsorship and applicant’s permanent residence application is sent to the Case Processing Center; The Case Processing Center determines if the sponsor is eligible; and Applications are triaged by the Case Processing Center to be either processed inside Canada or overseas. The following was obtained through an Access to Information Act request.
IRCC’s Risk Assessment Unit
People reading Global Case Management System notes may come across the acronyms RAU or RAO. RAO stands for Risk Assessment Officer. RAU stands for Risk Assessment Unit. The following is a summary of a PDF obtained through ATIP about IRCC’s Risk Assessment Units. In 2016, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) established a Regional Assessment Office model to establish Risk Assessment Units in a third of IRCC’s overseas visa office. As of August 2021, there are 19 Risk Assessment Officers overseas who are supported by locally engaged staff. Risk Assessment Officers are responsible for: anti-fraud; document verification; security reviews; strengthening the integrity of overseas program delivery; risk and intelligence reporting; and operational partner liaison. The goal of IRCC’s risk assessment functions are: support delivery of the IRCC mandate to manage Canada’s migration programs for the social and economic benefit of Canada by ensuring that all persons who apply for migration to Canada, whether for temporary purposes or permanently, are both eligible to do so and admissible, and meet all the criteria in the category under which they have applied; to help IRCC to maintain public confidence in Canada’s immigration system, which includes the continuum of immigration, refugee, citizenship, settlement and … Read More
Self Employed Class – What Are Cultural and Athletic Activities?
Canada’s Self-Employed Class seeks to attract to Canada individuals who have the intention and ability to become self-employed in Canada. Self-employed persons are required to have relevant experience in either cultural activities or athletics and be willing and able to make a significant contribution to the cultural or athletic life of Canada. There was also previously farm management component of the program which closed on March 10, 2018. Eligibility – Athletics and Cultural Experience The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC“) website states that to qualify for the Self-Employed Program applicants must show that they: have relevant experience; intend and be able to be self-employed in Canada; and can contribute to Canada’s economy in one of the required areas. “Relevant experience” under the Self-Employed Program means at least two years of experience during the period starting five years before a person applies for permanent residence and ending by the time the visa is issued. The experience must be: for cultural activities: two one-year periods being self-employed in cultural activities, or two one-year periods participating at a world-class level in cultural activities, or a combination of a one-year period described in (1.) above, and a one-year period described in (2.) above. for … Read More
Genuineness and Caregivers
On June 18, 2019 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada revamped its caregiver programs. Gone was the requirement that employers first obtain a Labour Market Impact Assessment and that caregivers work in Canada without their families for at least two years before they could apply for permanent residency. Instead, caregivers can now immediately apply for permanent residency if they have a job offer or Canadian work experience in an eligible caregiver occupation and if they meet minimum education and language proficiency requirements and come to Canada with their families right away. The new caregiver programs have existed for about four months now and it is too early to determine whether they have been a success. An issue that has arisen, however, is the issue of employers and applicants demonstrating that their job offers are genuine. How the Caregiver Programs Work Canada now has two caregiver programs. The first is the Home-Child Care Provider Pilot. The second is the Home Support Worker Pilot. A maximum of 2,750 applications are accepted per year under each stream. In both programs, applicants must demonstrate through standardized language testing that they have Initial Intermediate English or French ability, also known as Canadian Language Benchmark 5, and … Read More
Staying Removal at the IAD
People issued removal orders often want to know how long they can stay in Canada before they have to leave, and if there is a chance to defer removal.
What if You Created an Investor Program and No One Applied?
The following article appeared in the April edition of The Canadian Immigrant. ____________ On Jan. 28, 2015, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) launched the replacement to the federal investor immigration program, called the immigrant investor venture capital pilot program. CIC was apparently so confident about demand for the new program that it announced that it would only accept applications to the new program for two weeks, or until a maximum of 500 applications were received, whichever came first. It soon became apparent that no one was applying to the new program, and on Feb. 13, CIC quietly announced that it was extending its two-week deadline until April 15. The question thus has to be asked … has CIC created an immigrant investor program that no one is interested in? Old immigrant investor program Under the old federal investor immigration program, investor immigrants had to make a five-year $800,000 interest-free loan to the Government of Canada, have a net worth of CDN $1.6 million, and have two years of qualifying business experience. The program was first-come-first-served, and applicants were not required to possess any English or French language skills. In 2014, the Government of Canada ended the investor immigration program and … Read More
International Experience Canada
International Experience Canada (“IEC“) provides young individuals the opportunity to travel and work in Canada. The program has grown considerably since it was introduced in 1951, and in 2016 IEC comprised 22% of International Mobility Program (“IMP“) work permits, making it the largest component of the IMP. The IEC Programs Participation in IEC is currently available to the citizens of 34 countries that have a bilateral youth mobility arrangement (a “YMA“) with Canada. The three most common IEC programs are the Working Holiday Program (the “WHP”), the Young Professionals Program (the “YPP“) and the International Co-op Internship (the “IEC Co-Op“). While eligibility requirements vary somewhat for each country, participation is typically open to young adults between the ages of 18 to 30 or 35. Under the WHP, participating young adults obtain open work permits which allow them to work anywhere in Canada. This is the largest IEC stream, and comprises 81% of IEC. Under the YPP, participating young adults can obtain employer-specific work permits if they have a job offer that contributes to their professional development related to their field of study and work for the same employer for the duration of their stay. Under the IEC Co-Op, participating young … Read More
Was not Continuously Engaged
The word “continuously” appears in several immigration requirements. It is not often not defined, and its interpretation has largely been left to immigration officers and the courts. Definitions Black’s Law Dictionary defines the word “continuously” to mean: Uninterruptedly; in unbroken sequence; without intermission or cessation; without intervening time; with continuity or continuation.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word “continuously” as being: “in a continuous manner; uninterruptedly, without a break”. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines “continuous” as meaning “unbroken, uninterrupted.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines “continuously” as being “in a continuous manner” and “continuous” as “characterized by uninterrupted extension in time or sequence.” Dependent Child Jurisprudence Much of the jurisprudence on the matter involves the definition of “dependent child” before the Conservative Government of Canada changes in 2014. Previously, a “dependent child” was defined as: “dependent child”, in respect of a parent, means a child who (a) has one of the following relationships with the parent, namely, (i) is the biological child of the parent, if the child has not been adopted by a person other than the spouse or common-law partner of the parent, or (ii) is the adopted child of the parent; and (b) is in one of … Read More