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Canada welcomed 35,000 new citizens in the first two months of 2014 —twice as many as in the same period last year. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), more than 19,200 new Canadian citizens were sworn in this February, almost double the amount of new citizens welcomed one year earlier. In January, over 16,000 […]
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Canada will welcome 70 percent more young Irish workers under a new agreement between the Canadian and Irish governments. Under the agreement, Canada will issue 10,700 International Experience Canada (IEC) permits to Irish citizens under the age of 35 in 2014, a significant increase over the 6,350 IEC permits issued to Irish individuals last year.
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The elimination of Canada’s long-standing Immigrant Investor Program (IIP)—and the fast track to citizenship it offered—means thousands of predominantly Asian wealthy investors may have to examine their immigration alternatives. The cancellation of the IIP program means an estimated 46,000 wealthy Chinese investors in Canada will receive a refund of their immigration investment and as have
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Service in Canada’s armed forces could mean a fast track to citizenship for Permanent Residents thanks to Canada’s new immigration law. In its recently introduced Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, the Canadian government announced that in order to “recognize the important contributions of those who have served Canada in uniform” it was planning to introduce a
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Immigrants to Canada will have to spend more time in the country, and learn to speak one of the two official languages before they can obtain citizenship as part of a proposed sweeping reform of the country’s immigration laws. Stating that Canadian “citizenship is a privilege not a right”, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris
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More than 16,000 new Canadians were sworn in last month, a dramatic jump from the 8,250 new citizens of January 2013. Last month, new citizens from 190 different countries were sworn in at 244 citizenship ceremonies held across Canada. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), the investments made by the Canadian government in its
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New rules for passport processing give Canadians applying for passports while abroad more options to establish their identity. The passport process requires the applicant to have a “guarantor,” someone who guarantees they are who they say they are. The new rules allow any adult with a valid or recently expired (within one year) Canadian passport
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The Canadian government is ending a decades-old, controversial immigration program that provided wealthy immigrant investors a method for fast-tracking their citizenship applications. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced the government’s plans to end the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) and related Federal Entrepreneur Program as part of this year’s budget. Alexander said the program provided
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As part of the recently announced Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, the Canadian government has made significant changes on its citizenship application form (CIT-0002E) that increase the burden of proof for potential applicants. The move is part of an overall effort by the Canadian government to crackdown on the amount of fraudulent immigration applications. Citizenship and
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Canada’s immigration department recently lashed out at Ukrainian government officials and confirmed that they were, at least for now, not welcome in Canada. “Recent actions by members of Ukraine’s ruling elite in the face of popular and growing protests have been utterly deplorable, and compel us to take targeted and meaningful action,” Citizenship and Immigration
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