Canada Border Services Agency and Permanent Residents

permanent residents: While officials are unable to explain why, the number of permanent residents who have been sent to inadmissibility proceedings after being convicted of crimes has declined by almost one-third, from 1,149 in 2012 to 790 in 2013, and to 499 as of September 2014, according to Toronto Star. As of Nov. 7, just 10,780 people had been deported in 2014. And of those, the agency data shows, only 963 were sent back to their home countries because of criminal behaviour, down from 1,206 in 2012 and 1,154 in 2013 and Fewer immigrants convicted of crimes are facing a loss of their permanent resident status, and the number of people being deported has dropped significantly since Ottawa passed the Faster Removals of Foreign Criminals Act in 2013. And according to the Canada Border Services Agency, the total number of people removed including foreign nationals as well as immigrants and citizens stripped of their status has been falling steadily, from 18,938 in 2012 to 15,473 in 2013. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.