Barristers and Solicitors

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced on May 22, 2013 operational guidelines for implementing the four-year maximum for Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) that came into effect April 1, 2011 and is expected to begin impacting applicants in Spring 2013. Applicants who accumulate four-years of cumulative work in Canada performed after April 1, 2011 will [...]

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While the U.S. Immigrant Investor Program has come under closer scrutiny lately, criticized for granting immigrants with at least $500,000 an easy route to permanent residency, Green and Spiegel U.S. lawyer Jonathan Grode says that the program is not simply creating a route for foreigners to “buy” green cards. Quoted in the May 21, 2013 [...]

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced today that it will be re-opening the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP) allowing for the sponsorship of parents and grandparents for permanent residence in Canada.  The revamped program will begin accepting applications on January 2, 2014, and applications to the program will be capped at 5,000 for 2014. [...]

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The federal government has continued to implement changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in their effort to preserve the integrity of the TFWP. The additional changes implemented May 10th, 2013, will require employers requesting permission to bring in foreign workers to supply more information to Ottawa to prove they are not using the [...]

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On May 8, 2013, Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced an extension of the Pilot Project which provides for the issuance of two-year open work permits for foreign spouses/common-law partners and dependent children of certain high-skilled Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are returning to work in Ontario. This pilot project, which began on November 24, [...]

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