A Canadian nurse who has been working in the United States for the last 7 years is getting frustrated with the delay in bringing her American husband and their 10-month-old son back to Canada. The couple had submitted their application for the husband’s permanent residency to the Buffalo immigration office in March of last year, [...]
Immigrating to Canada from Australia
If you are from Australia and want to immigrate to Canada, you can do so a number of ways. In addition, as an Australian you have an advantage, because being from an English-speaking country means that you can much more easily make the transition to Canadian society than people from other countries. However, you will [...]
Live-in Caregiver Granted Permanent Residency While In Coma
According to this article in the Toronto Star, a woman from the Philippines who came to Canada as a live-in caregiver in 2008 has been granted permanent residency status under extremely rare and unexpected circumstances. Maricon Gerente, 44, had been waiting to obtain permanent resident status in Canada since 2011 so she could bring her [...]
Canadian Permanent Residence Application Finally comes though!
Dear Giovanni On behalf of my wife and myself I would like to thank you and Niren Associates for all your help in obtaining our Permanent Residence status. It has been a long hard drawn out process, and although we were informed at the beginning, we didn’t think it would take nearly 5 years! We [...]
Can you immigrate to Canada if you’re HIV positive?
Only a few decades ago, little was understood about HIV and the threat it posed to society. Today, we know much more about the virus and how someone who is a HIV positive can be treated and have a very high quality of life. But HIV is still an illness, and it can pose a [...]
Russian Ballerina Svetlana Lunkina seeks permanent residence in Canada
A Russian ballerina named Svetlana Lunkina has relocated to Canada after receiving threats in her native country stemming from a fight between a former business partner and her husband. The Bolshoi Ballet is a world-famous and internationally renowned ballet company founded in Moscow in 1776, and is one of the oldest ballet companies in the [...]
Canadian Green Card
Many people refer to the Canadian permanent resident card as the Canadian green card, because it is so similar to the green card given to permanent residents in the United States. People who have legally immigrated to Canada on a permanent basis are called permanent residents and they are given a permanent resident card. There [...]
Ottawa Doctoral Student Gets Second Chance At Permanent Residency
Fatemeh Kamkar is a doctoral student studying at the University of Ottawa who came to Canada from Iran seven years ago. She applied for permanent residency in 2005, and waited a very long six years only to find out that her application for permanent residency was denied. Why? In April 2009, she was diagnosed with [...]
Immigration Lawyer Michael Niren Quoted: Bill C-43
The recently proposed Bill C-43, the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act, will ensure that Canada has some of the strictest deportation laws among the Westernized world. For example, as of right now permanent residents in Canada who are convicted of a crime and serving sentences less than two years are given the right to [...]
What Days Count For Permanent Resident Status
One of the most important components of maintaining your permanent resident status in Canada is ensuring you meet the residency obligation. The residency obligation is in place to ensure that permanent residents don’t just obtain permanent resident status and then go back and live in their home country. To be permanent residents in Canada and [...]
New Spousal Sponsorship Rules Introduced By Canadian Government
The Government of Canada has announced that the long-discussed spousal sponsorship rules are now in effect. These rules will have a big impact on marriage immigration in Canada, and sometimes not for the better. New spousal sponsorship rules in place to combat marriage fraud Immigration marriage fraud is a fraudulent exploitation of the Canadian spousal [...]
How to Renew a PR Card in Canada
A permanent resident card, or PR card, is also known as a Canadian green card. It is very similar to the United States green card, which is why it is referred to as such. It will allow someone to live and work in Canada as long as they make sure they maintain their permanent resident [...]
Do I need to renew my PR status in Canada?
Do you need to renew your permanent resident status in Canada? The answer is, yes if you want to travel. Although what you will really be doing is renewing your permanent resident card, which expires every five years. Renewing your permanent resident card in Canada means that you must make an application as well as [...]
How to Renew a PR Card
If you have a permanent resident card in Canada, you should know that it needs to be renewed every five years. There is an expiry date on the card, and we recommend applying to renew your permanent resident card (PR card) about three months before it is due to expire whenever possible. In order to [...]
How to Apply for a “Canadian Green Card”
Canada doesn’t really have a “green card” per se, but our “Green Card” is somewhat but not exactly equivalent to a permanent resident card or permanent resident status. Like a United States green card holder, a permanent resident of Canada is someone who is foreign born and has immigrated to Canada but is not yet [...]
