Canada Immigration Newsletter

Volume 23, No. 12.2, Dec. 18, 2019

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Ontario wants to double nominations for permanent residence by 2022

The Government of Ontario says its annual allocation under Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program over the past several years has fallen short of actual labour needs in the province...

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Brandon, Manitoba, launches Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot

Manitoba’s second-largest city is now the third community to begin accepting applications through the five-year pilot, joining fellow Manitoba community, Altona/Rhineland, and the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie...

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Liberals outline Canada’s immigration priorities in new Mandate Letter

Managing the arrival of more than a million new permanent residents and creating a new Municipal Nominee Program are among the tasks Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has assigned to his new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Marco Mendicino...

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How to improve Canada’s Parents and Grandparents immigration program in 2020

A Human Capital Pilot could help overcome the challenges presented by the Parents and Grandparents Program in recent years...

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Canadian work experience and education boosts immigrant earning potential; study

Prior Canadian work experience makes a big difference to the entry-level wages that new immigrants earn, a Statistics Canada study shows...

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Quebec announces sponsorship, settlement, application fee increases for 2020

Quebec will be increasing its financial support requirements and application fees for 2020 to reflect changes in the province’s average Consumer Price Index...

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David’s Blog: A victory for common sense

The story of Redwan and Shuruvi Mozumder stands as a good example of an originally unimpeachable immigration decision that later went off the rails...

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