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Richard Kurland and Permanent Residency

permanent residency: More than half of those individuals waiting for permanent residency are the spouses and children of foreign caregivers already living in Canada, according to documents obtained under access to information and given to News. Express entry system floated as government fix to live-in caregiver woes , according to CBC. Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer and policy analyst, says processing time is too long. The number of individuals waiting for permanent resident status under a program that brings foreign caregivers and nannies to Canada has ballooned to more than 60,000, according to documents released under an access to information request. Foreign caregivers are eligible to apply for permanent residency after two years of work in Canada, but it can take more than three years to process their applications. After they are granted residency, they can then apply to bring over their children and spouses. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.