On Tuesday, November 1, 2022, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced Canada’s 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan. This multi-year plan has one of its primary focusses the needs of Canadian business to attract and foreign workers to fill positions in key sectors inlaying health care, skilled trades, manufacturing and technology. In 2021, Canada welcomed…
The government has proposed regulatory changes to three employer-supported streams under the OINP. Specifically, the proposal is as follows: The In-Demand Skills Stream: add thirteen (13) new manufacturing related NOC Codes for employment positions outside of the Greater Toronto Area (“GTA”) and remove the settlement funds requirement. Introduce limits on the number of applications that…
Instructions from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) on the process to sponsor Parents and Grandparents (“PGP”) for permanent residence in Canada are generally issued in late November or early December and apply to the next year’s application intake process. There is a cap on the number of people who can be sponsored through this…
On November 21, 2019, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) published updated guidelines for the issuance of visas to foreign nationals intending to travel to Canada in order to give birth. Under Canadian citizenship laws, all children born in Canada are Canadian citizens regardless of the status of their parents (with a small exception for…
