Sign-Up: Family Members and Canada

sign-up: The prime minister indicated that allowing immediate family members to cross in to Canada could happen without a change to the cross-border agreement in place with the United States, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The border between Canada and the U.S. has been closed to all non-essential or discretionary travel since mid-March in response to the pandemic, resulting in families being separated for more than two months now. We have been looking at ways of perhaps allowing close family members, children, spouses, or parents of Canadian citizens or permanent residents to be able to reunite under strict conditions through a slight modification of the directives for the Canadian Border Services Agency, Trudeau said Friday, without any specifics on how quickly this policy change could come. The latest extension on the restrictions is in effect until June 21 at least. Tourists and cross-border visits remain prohibited. The agreement, as it stands, exempts the flow of trade and commerce, as well as vital health-care workers such as nurses who live and work on opposite sides of the border. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.