Canada Immigration

March is Fraud Awareness month in Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada is recommending that immigrants become familiar with immigration fraud. Although there are many legitimate companies out there designed to help immigrants, there are also individuals out there who are simply looking for a quick payoff and getaway. By knowing more about how fraudsters […]

The National Occupation Classification system is designed to standardize job descriptions for work related immigration in Canada. Immigration Direct has descriptions of some of these classifications in the website’s article section. By specifically stating what the job is, employers and employees are better able to connect on an international level: for employees to find jobs

The Super Visa designed to let more parents and grandparent of Canadian citizens into Canada has turned out to be quite popular and successful. Of the total number of applications that have come in for the Super Visa since its inception in December of 2011 a vast majority of these have been approved for hopeful

The Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada was established in 1994 to better serve immigrants with their immigration and citizenship needs. The executive in charge of this department is the honourable Jason Kenney, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, and is assisted by his Deputy Minister, Neil Yeates. Citizenship and Immigration Canada employs approximately five

All Canadian government websites will be updating their websites for easier readability and better access. This will include Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). Below are some of the new features of the Service Canada website. People looking for online assistance in any of Canada’s departments can expect very similar changes on the rest of the

There are only a few instances where you can enter Canada with nothing but your birth certificate, and it is still recommended that you have additional documentation when you travel abroad from Canada. Citizens As a citizen, you can potentially re-enter Canada with nothing more than a birth certificate. This is especially true if you

The Canadian Immigrant Integration Program partners with schools across the world to assist immigrants in their transition to Canada. These foreign schools train immigrants for the Federal Skilled Worker Program and Provincial Nominees Program and provide them with the necessary knowledge to succeed once in Canada as Permanent Residents. Many of these immigrants will be

There are many different reasons for why you may have lost your landed immigration papers and really, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how they were lost, but how you will replace them. The Canadian government and Citizenship and Immigration Canada understand that sometimes papers get lost and they have a process

Immigration can be a difficult thing to accomplish and government bureaucracies aren’t always very easy to understand or very helpful. Sometimes you might spend a significant amount of time researching one aspect of the immigration process, but still only have a foggy image of the answer you seek. Here at Immigration Direct, we address many