As of January 1, 2014 Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced that it will be lowering the maximum age allowed for older children of immigrants who want to come to Canada to be with their parents and siblings, also referred to as dependent children. The change will reduce the age from 22 to under 19. [...]
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Changes to remember for the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program
Are you a Canadian permanent resident or Canadian citizen who wants to sponsor your parents or grandparents to come to Canada to be permanent residents themselves? You may know that this program was suspended last year because the backlogs for permanent resident applications through this and similar programs were so big, and the applications were [...]
Canada recruiting skilled immigrants, United States is missing out
Canada.com recently published the story of Paul Thomas, an American mechanic who had fallen on hard times due to the state of the United States economy. He’d taken a huge pay cut, had filed for bankruptcy, his house was in foreclosure and he was having difficulty finding a job. But then Canada came calling, offering [...]
Four Changes to the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program
Did you know that the Canadian government recently announced big changes to the parent and grandparent sponsorship program? Canadian permanent residents or citizens were able to sponsor certain family members to come to Canada as permanent residents provided they could support them – including their parents and grandparents. However, a very long backlog that was [...]
Immigration Lawyer Michael Niren Quoted: Is Canada Losing Immigrant Investors to the United States?
Canada suspended the Immigrant Investor Program in the summer of last year to help the government tackle a massive backlog of applications. The program, which was extremely popular, allowed foreign nationals to invest at least $800,000 with the government in order to immigrate to Canada, something that provided an additional $2 billion to the Canadian [...]
Ottawa will reduce the maximum age of dependent children of immigrants
The federal government has announced that it will be reducing the maximum age of dependent children of immigrants to Canada to 19 from the current 22. This will make an estimated 7,000 or so dependent children ineligible to come to Canada, as this is the approximate amount of dependents that come to Canada annually over [...]
4 Changes to the parent and grandparents sponsorship program
As you may know, the Canadian government put the sponsorship of parents and grandparents on hold, allowing them to apply for something called a Super Visa instead. The Super Visa was proposed ass a new and temporary solution for parents and grandparents who wanted to visit Canada. Using the Super Visa, they would be allowed [...]
Niren and Associates Featured in May 2013 Top Choice Magazine
Niren and Associates have been featured in the Top Choice Magazine in an article called Challenging Change: Facing the Fear of Changing Your Career Path. The article is available at the Top Choice Magazine website. Niren and Associates have also won Top Choice Awards for 2010, 2011 and 2012 with another nomination for 2013. The [...]
US Retirement Visa for Canadians? Can it be true?
At the moment, there is no retiree visa for the United States – although such a visa it would no doubt be very popular. As it stands now, Canadians who wish to spend time in the United States as retirees cannot stay there year-round. Canadians who spend their winters in the United States – affectionately [...]
Citizenship and Immigration Canada Will Re-Open Parent and Grandparent Program in 2014
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced that it will re-open the parent and grandparent program on January 2nd, 2014 because by then the application backlog and the wait time for processing these applications are expected to be reduced significantly. However, there will be different phases to the program and there will also be several different [...]
Statistics Canada: Canada has 6.8 million foreign-born residents
The National Household Survey, something Statistics Canada has designed in an effort to gather more information on Canada and Canadians now that the long-form census is gone, has uncovered all kinds of interesting data regarding the makeup of Canadian society. According to the survey, Canada is currently home to 6.8 million residents who were born [...]
Canadian Citizenship Judge Charged With Helping Immigration Consultants’ Clients Cheat
After a one-year investigation by the RCMP, a Citizenship and Immigration Judge is facing charges and is accused of giving copies of citizenship exams to a Toronto immigration consultant after stealing them. According to the RCMP, the judge allegedly passed these tests onto an immigration consultant in order to help their clients attain Canadian citizenship. [...]
What happens if your Permanent Resident Card expires?
The majority of the information available regarding what happens when your Canadian permanent resident card expires relates to what happens when your permanent resident card expires inside of Canada. The purpose of this article is to discuss what happens if your permanent resident card expires while inside of Canada. So, what happens? Not much. When [...]
Need help with tourist visa to Canada?
Wishing to visit friends, family or just travel and tour our provinces and cities? Well in order to visit Canada as a tourist you will need a Temporary Resident Visa. You must first determine your eligibility. You must apply for visitor visa at the appropriate embassy near you. Along with your application you must [...]
What are Provincial Nominee Programs?
Many people who are looking to immigrate to Canada as permanent residents need look no further than Provincial Nominee Programs, or PNPs. These programs are offered by the majority of Canadian provinces and territories, and these programs allow the different provinces or territories to nominate certain immigrants to live and work in their province or [...]
