Immigration & Citizenship

Processing surge puts Government on track to largely eliminate Live-in Caregiver Program backlog by end of 2018 Toronto, ON – Caregivers and their families will be reunited and the inventory of [...]

Canada’s Start-up Visa Program continues to grow, allowing an increased number of new immigrant entrepreneurs to come to Canada. The Start-up Visa Program focuses on immigrant entrepreneurs who [...]

Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 collaborate to make it easier for Atlantic Canadians to access their heritage April 15, 2016—Halifax, Nova [...]

Have you ever wondered which provinces have selected the most candidates since Express Entry was launched? The provinces of Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia were the most popular destination [...]

Could Canadians soon require a visa to travel to the European Union? It may sound ridiculous, but unless Canada’s visa requirements are dropped for Romanians and Bulgarians by April 12, the [...]

The aim of the International Mobility Program stream will focus on attracting newcomers to Canada’s to settle in francophone communities outside Quebec. The new Quebec immigration stream will [...]

In February Canada officially welcomed more than 25,000 Syrian refugees as part of the #WelcomeRefugees initiative. The plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of February 2016 [...]

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum introduced legislation to repeal parts of C-24 to amend the Citizenship Act, providing greater flexibility for applicants trying to [...]

Costas Menegakis, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, congratulated winners of the seventh annual RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards in Toronto, while Alice [...]

Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Chris Alexander, met with Kitchener-Waterloo-based business incubator Communitech and other business leaders to discuss the Start-up Visa and [...]