Depending on your country of citizenship, as well as your age (usually under 30 or under 35 years), you may be eligible for an International Experience Class visa. General Information is at Become a candidate – International Experience Canada. The program is...
PNP programs aim to serve the needs of the province that administers them. If the skills of a person seeking admission to a province happen to cohere with the economic aims of the province, then the chances of being nominated for immigration are greater. A nomination...
As the Express Entry system captures all of the skilled immigration to Canada, including Federal skilled worker in Canada experience class, the heart of the application is arguably, the work experience acquired by the applicant. The system is also geared towards...
The immigration department does not want student aged young people to be able to gain entry to Canada on a study permit and work in Canada unless they are actually studying as intended in their study visa application. Study permit holders must be enrolled in studies...
If you applying for a visa to be sponsored as a spouse or common-law partner to Canada, one issue may be marital history, specifically whether a divorce has been obtained. Questions may arise such as the reason for the divorce, and the subsequent marital partner’s...
he level of analysis Toronto Immigration lawyers use when assessing the Low Income cut-off has become more than merely looking up a table. The amounts for parents are 30% higher than the amount also known as the Minimum Necessary Income, for the sponsorship of a...
With increasing information sharing between governments, violations of the law can be more easily shared between governments. Such convictions may be easier for Canada Border Services Agency officers to detect. However, applying for a visa with some form of criminal...
Immigration detention may often occur when there is a breakdown in communication between a person holding (most often) a study or work visa and the immigration authorities. For example, the failure to keep an address updated with the immigration department (and/or...
Express Entry is characterized by ease of processing (for the immigration department), and as little accountability to the public as possible. One way accountability is reduced is by the fact that an Express Entry profile is not an application, but rather, data about...
The immigration department actively encourages you to file applications on your own at the links Do I need to use an immigration representative for my citizenship application? , as well as Do I need a representative to help me apply? . Further, one of the main...
The Post-Graduation Work Permit application must be submitted to the immigration department within 90 days of meeting the requirements for graduation from a suitable post secondary school in Canada. Meeting the requirements may be evidenced by you receiving a letter...
When applying for a visa, the expiration of a passport can be an issue that delays processing, or worse, results in some unexpected hassles. In the context of permanent resident applications, visa offices typically require at least six months duration on a passport...
Candidates often seek to save money when filing for immigration to Canada by putting up an express entry profile on their own. Subsequently, an invitation to apply is issued by the Canadian government. The self-filed express entry profile then must be supported by...
Putting up an EE profile is (when the CIC portal is working), not inherently difficult. It is like uploading a summary of your resume, in small pieces. The premise behind the Express Entry profile is that you are giving enough information to CIC to determine where...
If you have entered Canada on a visitor visa (aka a tourist visa, aka a temporary resident visa), your visitor visa is often valid for a maximum of six months. However, during month five of your visit to Canada, you may like what you see in Canada. Canada is...
There are many categories of visa applications, and the need to hire a lawyer in some types of applications may not be as obvious as in others. For example, some spousal/common-law applications may in fact be quite straightforward from an immigration officer’s point...
If your citizenship is from a country that is characterized by more development (economically speaking), and stable democratic institutions, then you may not need to apply for temporary entry prior to attempting to enter Canada. Such countries include the United...
New permanent residents of Canada receive their initial permanent resident card usually about eight weeks after landing at a Canadian Port of Entry. However, recently, due to a change in photograph size, the receipt of permanent resident cards may become delayed. The...
An applicant for a student visa must be a student. Sounds dumb, I know. What I mean is that a Canadian visa officer must be satisfied that a person seeking a study visa to Canada will carry out the intended studies in Canada. An officer determines this by, among other...
Obtaining a visa for Canada from India may be simpler in some respects, depending on the type of visa being sought. If you are deemed to be a business traveller, a visitor visa may be issued by the New Delhi or Chandigarh visa office in about two business days....
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