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Category: Permanent Residence Application
Cut immigration applications to fix backlog: Is this our only option?
Cut immigration applications to fix backlog? This is what Jason Kenny, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada said to the House committee on citizenship and immigration recently. (For a detailed report on this, follow http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/20/pol-kenney-immigration-cut-applications.html) I am saddened each time I hear…
BC Provincial Nominee Program: Business immigrants encouraged to invest in regional communities
VICTORIA – The provincial government is taking steps to further encourage business immigrants to invest in communities in regional B.C. through the BC Provincial Nominee Program. This is one of a series of steps as part of a commitment in…
Restaurant and food service manager: Halfway toward skilled worker cap
As of October 11, 2011, CIC has received a total of 2,768 eligible federal skilled worker applications. For National Occupation Classification (NOC) # 0631, 260 applications have been received, that is more than halfway toward the 500 cap on the…
Strong Canadian immigration interest is a ‘big, good problem’: Kenney
http://www.torontoobserver.ca/2011/10/06/strong-canadian-immigration-interest-is-a-big-good-problem-kenney/
Government takes aim at immigrant waiting lists more than a million names long
http://bit.ly/r5LYR1
While 150,000-plus wait, few parents and grandparents are accepted
http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/immigration-10-05-2011
My application for permanent residency is taking very long time and CIC will not tell me the reason for the delay. What Can I do?
There may be various reasons for the delay. Often times your application is placed in a long queue in the CIC backlog, and your file might be stuck at the criminal/security or medical check stage. When CIC processes immigration applications,…