Citizenship And Immigration

Citizenship And Immigration Dept: One would assume that the Canadian government expects caregivers to work for the family long term, given that changes to the Live-in Caregiver Program require the family to pay all recruitment fees, airfare, medical and workers' compensation, according to Vancouver Sun. Kenney has made it clear that he takes marriage fraud seriously, as Citizenship and Immigration Canada states: "There are some people who think marriage to a Canadian citizen will be their ticket to Canada. It is a crime for foreign nationals to marry Canadian citizens or permanent residents only to gain entry into Canada." Yet there is no issue with caregivers using Canadian families to gain entry to Canada, with no intention of working for them and similar to marriage fraud, a number of overseas caregivers are using Canadian families to gain entry into the country with no real intention of working for the family long term. And Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is giving them the green light to do so. The caregiver has no legal obligation to work for the family, however. Most agencies are well aware of caregivers who, once they clear customs, don't even make it to the employer's home. Citizenship and Immigration Canada or the Canada Border Services Agency usually respond to concerns by saying that "there is not much we can do." As reported in the news.
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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: The changes are part of "phase 2" of the government's overhaul of the family reunification category of immigration. New applications for the program have been on hold since 2011 in order to cut down on a massive backlog that resulted in wait times of eight years, according to CBC. Kenney said that about 25,000 parents and grandparents will be admitted as permanent residents in 2013 and he expects that level to continue in coming years and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced new criteria for sponsoring parents and grandparents to come to Canada today that are aimed at ensuring elderly immigrants don't end up on welfare or in social housing. Kenney said applications will resume Jan. 1, 2014, and will be limited to 5,000 per year. The applications will still take years to process because of the ongoing backlog. By the end of the year, the backlog is estimated to be around 80,000 applications. Canada's foreign-born population soars to 6.8 million (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Newcomers Dept: About 100 people on P.E.I. are waiting for citizenship and are unable to vote, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, according to CBC. "Like, in Canada, the big thing is about voting, right, so actually you can do something to change your life, you know," he said and some P.E.I. newcomers won't be able to to vote in Monday's federal election because of delays in getting citizenship. "Truly, I thought this was going to be the first time for me in Canada. I've been in Canada more than eight years now," said Stephen Li, who came from China and applied for citizenship two years ago. He still can't vote today. As reported in the news.
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Michael Petrou of Macleans revealed on Thursday that text from the former immigration ministers 2008 speech is no longer available on Kenneys personal website or the online archives of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, according to Huffington Post. Trudeau was condemned by the Muslim Canadian Congress MCC for attending an ISNA event last Friday in Mississauga and A speech made by former immigration minister Jason Kenney to the Islamic Society of North America ISNA has apparently been erased from government websites as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau faces criticism for his association with the same group. "I m sure this is due to a simple computer glitch rather than any attempt to re-write the historical record, and that the text of Kenneys rather lengthy speech will soon be restored to both websites," he wrote, sarcastically. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

phone scam: Kevin Baillie in a written release Tuesday, according to CBC. The call originated from the 905 area code in Ontario, Baillie added. RCMP warn of phone scam targeting and threatening immigrants Fraudsters pose as immigration officials in phone scam, police warn The woman said she received a call from a male who identified himself as being with Citizenship and Immigration Canada who told her he had her immigration file open on his desk. "When the male began to ask her for detailed personal information, she challenged him, and he hung up," said Kings District commander Staff Sgt. Citizenship and Immigration Canada has sent out several notices about the ongoing scam, in which targets are asked for personal information including social insurance numbers, credit card information, bank accounts and eventually payment to avoid being deported or have other sanctions imposed. "The department advises that they never contact clients by phone to collect fines to avoid deportation and never request payment by pre-paid credit cards or through a private money transfer," Baille said. Police advise anyone receiving a fraudulent call to hang up and contact their local police department. If clients have concerns about the legitimacy of a call, Citizen and Immigration Canada recommends they ask for the name of the agent calling, then confirm if the call was genuine by calling the Citizen and Immigration Call Centre at 1-888-242-2100. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship Application Dept: “While each case is considered on its own merit, generally, someone who has never been a Canadian and has not spent much time in Canada, and is a citizen of another country in which they have resided most of their life, would not have a strong case to warrant exceptional use of the discretionary authority to grant citizenship,” Citizenship and Immigration spokeswoman Karen Shadd said in an e-mail, according to Globe And Mail. The world championships begin Aug. 28 in Turkey. Canada is in the preliminary round with France, and the two countries are playing back-to-back exhibition games at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, on Thursday and Friday nights 7 p.m. ET . They meet again on Aug. 31 at Izmir. Also in the group are Lithuania, Lebanon, New Zealand and Spain and the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration said Wednesday that although it wouldn’t comment on Bonner’s file for privacy reasons, applicants who’ve spent only a short while in Canada and have lived mostly in the country of their birth would not likely be granted an accelerated path to Canadian citizenship. Bonner, a San Antonio Spurs power forward, has been with the Canadian team but unable to suit up while his citizenship application is still being considered. He became a permanent resident of Canada in 2009 after marrying a Canadian and hasn’t yet met the three-year residency requirement for citizenship. He applied for an exemption, but would have to convince the federal cabinet that he has provided “services of an exceptional value to Canada.” As reported in the news.
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Entrepreneur Program Dept: Cheaters will be issued a warning letter and may lose their permanent resident status, according to a new Citizenship and Immigration Canada operational guideline , according to The Star. Provinces are increasingly taking charge of the selection of economic immigrants to serve the needs of their local labour market and economy, though the federal government is still responsible in issuing permanent resident visas and ottawa is stepping up its effort in combatting cheating immigrants who are selected under one province s entrepreneur program but end up breaking the terms and moving to another. Legal experts say this is just the beginning of Ottawa s attempt to stamp out what they call trampolining by immigrants being accepted by one province but settling in another. The enhanced enforcement begins in Quebec but is expected to expand to other provincially administered immigration programs. As reported in the news.
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Citizenship And Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: Kenney has launched consultations with industry associations about the possible program and ways to link immigrant entrepreneurs with private-sector groups, according to CBC. "We need to proactively target a new type of immigrant entrepreneur who has the potential to build innovative companies that can compete on a global scale and create jobs for Canadians," Kenney said in a news release and canada is looking at opening a special immigration stream for entrepreneurs with good startup ideas, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said today. If it goes ahead, the program would run for five years and be limited to 2,750 applications a year. If that tryout is successful, Citizenship and Immigration Canada could introduce it formally through regulatory changes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Settlement Dollars Dept: The map a crucial tool in determining where federal settlement dollars go shows the location of scores of proposals by community groups for the fiscal year starting April 1, each meant in some way to help new immigrants integrate, according to The Star. We had to look at how many proposals we received for various geographical areas, says Jurisic, the immigration department s director of settlement services in Ontario. That influenced our decision-making, because it is only a certain amount of available money that we have to fund these projects and in a conference room at Citizenship and Immigration Canada s Toronto headquarters on St. Clair Ave., Heidi Jurisic lays out a colour-coded map of the city. Across Ontario, 452 organizations filed 700 proposals this year, including 145 in Toronto, asking for money for everything from language training to job search workshops. The combined price tag: $734 million. As reported in the news.
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Immigration And Refugee Board Dept: The notice from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, obtained by 's Power a Politics with Evan Solomon , was sent out to about 70,000 households in May. It was part of a package of documents released under the Access to Information Act from the Immigration and Refugee Board that also included emails and other correspondence on the potential impact of changes, according to CBC. It goes on to say that "prescription drug benefits are being reduced for all beneficiaries," and that "vision care, dental care, devices to assist mobility, home care and long-term care will no longer be covered." A notice of looming cuts to health services for refugees was mailed to more than 104,000 beneficiaries including about 14,000 the federal government now says won't be stripped of their supplementary medical services and opposition MPs say it shows the government has flip-flopped on a contentious policy change. "The Interim Federal Health Plan has been reformed. As of June 30, 2012, benefits will be reduced for all current and future beneficiaries," the notice reads. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship and immigration Canada: In our view, there is not enough evidence to justify the effort and expense required for such a system-wide program change. Citizenship and immigration Canada has not quantified the extent of fraud resulting from birth tourism, said Ontario Deputy Immigration Minister Chisanga Puta-Chekwe, according to The Star. On Friday, a spokesperson for Ontario Immigration Minister Michael Chan said the province has not changed its position and The Ontario government says it will not support Ottawas proposal to remove citizenship rights to children born in Canada to non-citizens and non-residents. At this time, there is insufficient data to demonstrate the demand placed on Ontarios economy or public services from birth tourists, he wrote in a letter to Ottawa, dated September 6, 2012, after a technical briefing on the plan. A copy of the provinces response was obtained by this week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

CanadaImmigrants.com British Columbia Desk - Twenty two people who came to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics have made refugee claims in Canada, seven of them members of the "Olympic family." The Olympic family includes everyone from sponsors and athletes to the entourage of support staff that travels with each country's Olympic team. For privacy concerns, Johanne Nadeau with Citizenship and Immigration couldn't say if any of the claimants were athletes, but did say that seven of them were from organizations directly linked to the Games. The figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada show the claimants came from nine different countries: Ghana, Hungary, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Nepal and Japan. As reported in the news.

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Halifax council should give the green light to the municipalitys signing of a proposed immigration-services agreement with Ottawa, city staff have recommended, according to The Chronicle Herald. Regional council is to consider the recommendation Tuesday at its meeting at city hall and A municipal staff report says the $146,472 deal with Citizenship and Immigration Canada would be for three years, and is intended to support a part-time staff person and administrative costs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

American Cousins Dept: Canada has strict prohibitions against people with criminal records entering the country - they are just not always enforced to the same extent, according to Montreal Gazette. On top of the $200 fee, he would have to provide, among other things: a criminal clearance certificate from French police authorities; three letters of reference from responsible citizens parole board, respectable private citizens, clergymen ; a copy of the court docket showing the sentence imposed; and his description of the events giving rise to the offence and bertrand Cantat may have slipped past immigration officials last November, as just another Frenchman come to visit his North American cousins. But the former rocker, convicted of beating his girlfriend to death in 2003, would not likely go unnoticed again, even if he was still invited to perform here. Once he is recognized at Customs, Cantat, who spent four years in jail for manslaughter, would have to apply to Citizenship and Immigration Canada for a Temporary Resident Permit, a long and complicated process. As reported in the news.
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Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander: On Nov. 8, the federal Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced big changes to Canadas fastest growing immigration program: the Canadian Experience Class, or CEC, according to The Chronicle Herald. The CEC is a permanent residence program introduced by the federal Conservatives in 2008. The CECs key requirements are that a temporary foreign worker or international graduate have a year of experience in a highly skilled occupation in Canada, and have strong language ability and The recent changes to the CEC most of which went into effect within 24 hours are bad news for potential immigrants and bad news for the Harper government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian citizenship: In typical fashion for Prime Minister Stephen Harpers law-and-order obsessed government, the laws promise to protect the value of Canadian citizenship by cracking down on problems that largely dont exist. The vast majority of new Canadians are loyal, honest, law-abiding citizens. They have contributed enormously to the building-up of this nation. But you wouldnt know it to judge from the unwelcome mat rolled out this week by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander. Its all about cracking down on the marginal few who turn out to be treasonous, terrorists, criminals or fraudsters, and raising the bar for everyone else, according to The Star. As has argued before , this discriminatory measure creates two categories of citizenship and disenfranchises naturalized citizens. It may well be unconstitutional. Whats next? Will Ottawa one day be trying to strip citizenship from other classes of criminals? Where does it end and Canadas proposed new Citizenship Act reeks of mistrust. Theres no other way to put it. Its an insult to many of the seven million foreign-born people who have settled here, a fifth of the population, and to many of the 250,000 who will arrive this year. Parliament should call the governing Conservatives on this before they ram it into law. At its worst the new law devalues the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who hold dual citizenships. Canadians who commit treason by making war on this country already face life in prison; so do those who commit terrorism or espionage. Thats as it should be. But the new law would go a step further and strip Canadian citizenship from dual citizens who commit such crimes. Why? They re Canadians , after all. Citizenship is a fundamental status, not something that people have to deserve in the governments eyes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian Citizenship Dept: The Canadian action comes an investigation by a Hong Kong newspaper found that bogus "consultants" are teaching Chinese women how to hide their pregnancies and how to apply for Canadian visitor or student visas, according to Vancouver Sun. "We condemn the practice of circumventing our laws to game the system, leaving Canadians taxpayers with the bill. This is unfair and not right." Citizenship and Immigration Canada is poised to crack down on so-called "passport babies" or "birth tourism" - the practice of travelling to Canada to give birth so that child can have Canadian citizenship. "We are aware of crooked consultants who encourage pregnant women to illegally travel to Canada to give birth and gain access to Canada's considerable benefits," Citizenship and Immigration spokeswoman Candice Malcolm said Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship And Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: In an open letter to Kenney, the immigration lawyers say it is "not credible" that Black would have been granted a temporary resident permit "without any input" from Kenney himself, according to CBC. "In fact, Minister Kenney directed his department multiple times to specifically exclude him and his staff from any deliberations regarding this application," said Ana Curic, director of communications for the immigration minister and more than 80 lawyers have written an open letter to Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney challenging his assertion that he was not involved with the decision to grant Conrad Black a permit to live in Canada after the former media mogul served jail time in the U.S. But in a statement to News, the minister's office maintains "neither the minister of immigration nor his staff were involved in processing this file. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Justice for Migrant Workers, Justice: Joint statement by: Fuerza-Puwersa, Justice for Migrant Workers, Justice for Deepan, No One Is Illegal - Montreal, No One Is Illegal - Ottawa, No One Is Illegal - Toronto, No One Is Illegal - Vancouver, Solidarity Across Borders, according to Rabble. In addition, family reunification has become harder with increased restrictions on sponsorship of spouses, parents, and grandparents. The Stealing Citizenship Act adds to the litany of destructive immigration changes in recent years that makes citizenship and permanent residency more unattainable than ever. Citizenship will be harder to get because The Stealing Citizenship Act will: give government officials unprecedented authority to deny citizenship if they suspect that an applicant might not reside in Canada in the future, which can be done on an extremely arbitrary basis extend the formal residency requirement currently the requirement is three to four years, but applicants usually wait four to six years to get citizenship due to government delay make it harder for students, workers, and refugees to become citizens time spent living in Canada prior to their permanent residency will be disregarded remove the right to appeal to the Federal Court and the right to appeal Federal Court decisions at the Federal Court of Appeal triple the cost of applying and impose the costly language testing on applicants aged 14-64 used to be 18-55 decisions on citizenship will now usually be made by a civil servant as opposed to a neutral third party Judge Please help .ca stop Harper election fraud plan. Become a monthly supporter . The federal government has just passed Bill C-24, an Act to Steal Citizenship or what they call Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act , which further dismantles Canada already exclusionary and racist immigration system. This law will likely come into effect in 2014 and citizenship, which is already out of the reach for most migrants, will be much harder to get and it will be easier to taken away at the discretion of immigration officials. This Act targets people with dual citizenship, make its harder for people to appeal court decisions, and gives unprecedented power to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. This comes at a time when most avenues to permanent residency which one has to get before applying for citizenship have already been severely gutted. Since the late 1990s, more people have been entering Canada on temporary status than with access to permanent residency. After a decade of steady decline, refugee acceptances which represent less than 0.1 per cent of the world refugees hit a historic low last year. This trend is largely due to the Refugee Exclusion Act that legally discriminates based on nationality. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Immigration Backlog Dept: Three years later, Zhou, 41, is still in China. He's also in limbo, caught in an immigration backlog along with thousands of other millionaire businesspeople around the world who are trying to enter Canada under Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Immigrant Investor Program. IMMIGRATION Your advice for new Canadians An offering of tips for recent immigrats from readers, according to CBC. The uncertainty has made it more difficult for him and his co-owners his wife, Jade, and another man to plan for the future of a business that makes specialized car parts, employs more than 20 people and had sales last year of $2.5 million and chinese businessman Jacob Zhou was ready to hand over $400,000 in 2009 to meet the Canadian government's financial requirement to bring his multimillion-dollar autoparts manufacturing operation, and his family, to Ontario. "It's a little bit complicated for me right now," Zhou said in an interview from Beijing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.