Dec 4, 2019
Aris Daghighian
Increasingly, our office is encountering cases in which travelers or immigration applicants at the border have their cell phone, laptop, iPad or ot...
Oct 16, 2019
Tim Golden
It has been a year full of changes for U.S. immigration, and at the conclusion of the U.S. Fiscal Year 2019, we have decided to focus on the curren...
Sep 25, 2019
Joshua Green
Trusted traveller programs have grown exponentially over the past decade. The most common of these programs is NEXUS, which provides cardholders wi...
Sep 18, 2019
Hilete Stein and Ghazi Jarrar
Express Entry is becoming more popular by the day. Just this year, IRCC invited 63,400 candidates to apply for permanent residence through the syst...
Sep 6, 2019
Ghazi Jarrar
The writ has not been dropped yet, but Canada’s political parties are already in campaign mode. Perhaps more so than usual, immigration is fe...
Jul 30, 2019
Peter Salerno
Rising Express Entry Scores
Candidates waiting in the Express Entry system to receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence could ha...
Jul 16, 2019
Introduction:
As a result of a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision released on May 10th, 2019—Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Prepa...
Jun 18, 2019
On June 15, 2019, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced two new pilot programs for caregivers: the Home Child Care Provide...
May 29, 2019
An overview of the reporting obligations for Canadian Residents
As the summer season is right around the corner, many Canadian residents will be re...
Apr 25, 2019
Valerie Kleinman
Although immigration is technically under federal jurisdiction, the Province of Ontario plays an active role in contributing to the selection of im...
Apr 1, 2019
Valerie Kleinman
Bienvenue au Canada: Immigration Options for French-Speaking Applicants
Canada has two official languages, English and French, and significant effo...
Mar 25, 2019
More and more international students are choosing to study in Canada. The latest data from the Canadian Bureau for International Education demonstr...
Jan 30, 2019
The much anticipated parent and grandparent sponsorship program opened yesterday, January 28, 2019, at 12:00pm. Shortly thereafter, around 12:08pm,...
Jan 14, 2019
The Government of Canada has officially updated program delivery instructions for business visitors and investors holding Vietnamese passports, giv...
Jan 9, 2019
Peter Salerno
Express Entry
Over the past year, candidates in the Express Entry pool hoping to receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Canadian Permanent Reside...
Dec 4, 2018
Valerie Kleinman
BACKGROUND
Considerable time and effort have been spent to have a foreign national join your team in Canada. What happens after they arrive? Employ...
Nov 13, 2018
The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship’s recently released 2018 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration asserts: “Imm...
Sep 27, 2018
Tim Golden and Kelly Goldthorpe
“You’re not getting into the United States today...” “I can ban you for life, if I want to…” “I don&rsqu...
Sep 17, 2018
Kelly Goldthorpe
Express Entry is Canada’s immigration application management system which came into effect in January 2015. Express Entry manages the Canadia...
Aug 31, 2018
Peter Salerno
1. Biometrics requirements
Giving up your fingerprints and a photograph before entering Canada has become the new norm for most foreign nation...