IRCC

March is Fraud Prevention Month in Canada. Throughout the month, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) works to raise awareness of types of immigration fraud, how to recognize scams [...]

In January of 2017, a Canadian Immigration Officer denied an application for permanent residence through a spousal sponsorship. The Officer doubted the validity of the marriage because the [...]

If a spousal or common-law application is being filed from within Canada, IRCC has given the liberty to a foreign spouse of changing a visitor application to work permit from within Canada. Such [...]

Recent reports in Canadian media (La Presse and Toronto Star) about increased number of Americans being refused entry into Canada may come as a surprise in light of the media focus on the [...]

Below is a slide from a presentation that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gave on July 26th in Ottawa. Candidates were invited across a range of occupations and skill levels [...]

Below is a slide from a presentation that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gave on July 26th in Ottawa. The vast majority of active candidates (who have not yet been selected) [...]

Below is a slide from a presentation that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gave on July 26th in Ottawa. In May, 2016, about 57,500 foreign nationals were active candidates in [...]

Source: The Conference Board of Canada – http://www.conferenceboard.ca/infographics/import-immigration.aspx

Below is a slide from a presentation that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gave on July 26th in Ottawa.   Although Express Entry offers faster processing and an online [...]

A recent inquiry of IRCC about the questionably, long processing time for self-employed applications resulted in the following official response by the department: We can confirm that the [...]