On February 3 2011, the Canadian Immigration Department announced centralization in the initial processing of in-Canada Humanitarian and Compassionate applications. In-Canada H&Cs will be initially screened in Vancouver and thereafter, if necessary, sent to a...
The process of leading up to the issuance of a visa includes submitting a set of forms, (or often, the same set of forms more than once), then getting those forms reviewed by a visa officer, and being interviewed by a visa officer. After a normal interview (where the...
The ADR process at the Immigration Refugee Board (IAD) is open predominantly to refused spousal visas, and some residency obligation appeals. The judge and inquisitorial role is given to a representative of the Canada Border Service Agency. The other person present,...
The Canadian Immigration Department has a policy branch that no doubt has eyes and ears all over Canada’s immigration system through statistics, among other methods. No doubt, there were some statistics that indicated a pattern whereby, for example, a Joe and Jane...
I have come across some immigration forum websites where people attempt to file their own immigration cases asking for advice from those forums. This works for but a small minority of applicants whose cases can be characterized as ‘smooth as glass’ – e.g. they work...
Recently, Canada’s immigration Minister Jason Kenney was forced to apologize for his New Delhi Canadian visa office’s apparently systematic banning of Indian nationals from Canada who performed service in India’s army, or police service (on the basis of...
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