Dec 20, 2013
Stephen Green, Senior Partner at Green and Spiegel, LLP doesn't buy the explanation that the excessive paperwork in citizenship applications is nec...
Dec 12, 2013
Please be advised that a proposal to reduce the age of dependents from under 22 to under 19 was pre-published in the Canada Gazette Part I on May 1...
Dec 11, 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has just announced that Canadians living and working outside of Canada may now apply for a passport with the fol...
Dec 11, 2013
As of December 12, 2013, International Experience Class (IEC) in the UK will be accepting applications for 2014. The first round of applications wi...
Dec 11, 2013
International Experience Class (IEC) Germany program will partially open on December 11, 2013. Specifically, the International Co-op (Internship) a...
Dec 11, 2013
Steer clear of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the Labour Market Opinion (LMO) process altogether and look at other ways to bring y...
Dec 5, 2013
The newly implemented, The Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, requires the licensing of recruiters and immigration consultant...
Nov 25, 2013
Under the Young Professionals category, there will be two rounds of applications. The first round opened today and there are 600 spots remaining (1...
Nov 14, 2013
The provincial and federal governments are increasing their efforts to help skilled new comers obtain licenses/certificates and secure employment i...
Nov 12, 2013
Overturning an earlier decision of the Immigration Division, the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) has held that cultural context should be conside...
Nov 12, 2013
Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has announced that, effective today, Czech nationals are not required to obtain a temporary resident visa (TRV...
Oct 30, 2013
By the end of 2014, the backlog of Parent and Grandparent program applications will be 50 percent lower than two years ago, Citizenship and Immigra...
Oct 30, 2013
On November 8, 2013, Citizenship Immigration Canada (CIC) announced that from November 9, 2013 to October 31, 2014 they will accept a maximum of 12...
Oct 25, 2013
Minister Alexander announced today that ?wait times in the Live-In Caregiver Program have grown to levels that are unacceptable to caregivers?. Con...
Oct 22, 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada?s overall cap for Federal Skilled Trades applications between May 4, 2013 and April 30, 2014 is 3,000. Citizensh...
Oct 11, 2013
Beginning October 26, 2013, CIC will begin accepting applications under the new Business Incubator stream Start-Up Visa (SUV) Program. Minister Chr...
Oct 2, 2013
After thanking Green and Spiegel's founding partner Mendel Green for his introduction at an Economic Club of Canada luncheon on October 8, former I...
Sep 27, 2013
As of 12:00am on October 1, 2013, the U.S. Government has gone into shutdown mode. Specifically, there is a budget impasse in Congress and until it...
Aug 21, 2013
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is "a Canadian" says Green and Spiegel partner Stephen Green in a recent article of the Globe and Mail. The Texas Republic Senator, who is being touted as a possible presidential candidate for 2016
Aug 1, 2013
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is "a Canadian" says Green and Spiegel partner Stephen Green in a recent article of the Globe and Mail. The Texas Republic Se...