The previously delayed 2020 Parents and Grandparents program has just kicked off, with 10,000 spots offered in the lottery running until November 3, 2020.
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Visa Officers Largely Bias-Free: Author
In a country where over one in five people are immigrants and far more are children and relatives of immigrants, questions of who gets into Canada and how decisions are made on immigration matters are…
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Flying in Family Class: An In-Depth Series (Part I)
Family reunification is at the core of the Liberal government’s immigration policy. After our two-part in-depth piece on the pros and cons of the family class immigration stream, this new series takes a closer look…
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Promise on Parent-Grandparent Sponsorships Unfulfilled
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) resumed receiving sponsorship applications for parents and grandparents (PGP) of Canadian citizens and permanent residents on Monday morning. The case processing centre in Mississauga, Ontario opened its window for…
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Attn McCallum: Do Not End Open Work Permit Program
Dear Minister John McCallum, We are reaching out to you as a group of Canadians and immigrants with a vested interest in seeing improvements made in the immigration system, a system we know all too…
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Maintaining Momentum for Syria
It’s been over one month since images were published showing three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body washed up on Turkish shores and Canadian support for intervention in the Syrian refugee crisis seems to only be gaining momentum.…
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Refugee Resettlement Groups: “The More, The Merrier”
Toronto-based not-for-profit organization Lifeline Syria has been at the forefront of efforts to bring Syrian refugees to Canada. Launched at the end of June, its target is to resettle 1,000 refugees in the Greater Toronto…
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Rethink Ethnic Event Sponsorship
Event sponsorship management, especially the evaluation and selection process, could be a time consuming task and a headache for many marketing managers. On top of that, the activation and measurement of the sponsorship, especially the…
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A life upended by war; a fresh start in Canada
Speaking from their new apartment in Laval, Quebec, the Dandachi family says the past 17 days have been like a “honeymoon” compared to the past three years spent fleeing the chaos of the Syrian war and living as refugees…
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Jumping through hoops to become Canadian
The first significant changes to Canada’s Citizenship Act in almost four decades will make it more difficult for new immigrants to become Canadian citizens, seek to prevent immigration fraud and encourage Canadians to take more…
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