In the November 18, 2011 issue of India Abroad, Green and Spiegel LLP partner Ravi Jain expressed concern that Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) planned increase next year in the number of visas for sponsored parents and grandparents may come at the expense of other family class immigrants, namely, spouses/partners and children. “The minister (Citizenship and [...]
Government to increase admissions of sponsored parents and grandparents next year but introduces moratorium on new sponsorship applications
Citizenship and Immigration (CIC) Minister Jason Kenney announced today that CIC will take immediate action to cut the backlog and wait times for sponsored parents and grandparents through a new “Action Plan for Faster Family Reunification”. Phase I of the Action Plan includes an increase next year in the number of admissions of sponsored parents [...]
CIC to Introduce New Regulations Curbing Marriages of Convenience
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will soon unveil its new regulations aimed at curbing marriage fraud in the sponsoring of family class immigrants, according to a recent report in the Globe and Mail. It is anticipated that the regulations will introduce a new “conditional” permanent residence status for sponsored spouses and place a five-year ban [...]
“Management” Requirement for Investor Class Immigrants needs Defining, Senior Federal Court Judge Suggests
The Acting Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada in a recent decision expressed concern over the absence of a definition for the term “management” in the eligibility criteria for investor class immigrants in either the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) or the Immigration Manual (IM). Without guidance on this point, the judge [...]
Officers Have Duty to Assess Applicants in the Category Applied For, Federal Court Rules
Canada’s Federal Court recently reaffirmed the principle that immigration officers have a duty to assess immigration applicants in the category they have chosen. Choosing one category because it may be faster than another does not mean you are circumventing the system. As the Court stated, “[a]pplicants have the right to submit their case in the [...]
