by Nwando Oranye | May 12, 2021 | Immigration Blog
On May 7, 2021, at 1:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, Canada’s new International Graduate stream for English speakers reached its cap of 40,000 applications. The International Graduate stream and two other streams for essential workers, as well as three streams for...
by Nwando Oranye | May 8, 2021 | Immigration Blog
On May 6, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has launched six new temporary immigration programs aimed at essential workers and international graduates. Despite many technical problems with registration, document uploads, and processing fee...
by Nwando Oranye | Apr 22, 2021 | Immigration Blog
On April 20, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) provided an update for the instruction to the officers assessing applications to transfer them to the Domestic Network’s Centre of Expertise in Security Cases if an application has passed...
by Nwando Oranye | Apr 22, 2021 | Immigration Blog
On April 20, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced the new cost threshold for excessive demand for health and social services. This is the number of funds the government interprets as acceptable to cover the medical expenses of the new...
by Nwando Oranye | Apr 16, 2021 | Immigration Blog
On April 15, 2021, the government of Ontario announced the proposed amendments to the Ontario Immigration Act. The province plans to improve the program integrity and efficiency of the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). Among the other proposal, Ontario wants...