Newsletter Archive
Visas for the Visa-Exempt – Express Entry Mid-Year Review
August 2015
Two topics for this month’s newsletter:
Qualifying for Canadian Citizenship: Longer Wait Times Faced by Permanent Residents
July 2015
As of June 11, 2015, the final phase of Canadian government’s ambitious immigration reforms, implemented through the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, presented a number of new challenges to permanent residents who had been waiting to qualify to become Canadian citizens.
A Happily Ever After Spousal Sponsorship Story
June 2015
Shawna and Pierre came to see me in late March, 2014. Like almost all my spousal sponsorship clients, they had met over the internet. In 2010, after a year of online correspondence, they had met in person. Their relationship developed with visits back and forth to each other’s countries, and in July, 2013 they had married.
Express Entry and International Students Is there a Disadvantage?
May 2015
Last month I sent a young woman back to Japan. She’d come to Canada as an international student first to finish high school, then to attend Sheridan College in their Animation Program. Her employer consulted me after their Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), because her position was denied. They had been paying her the median wage for Ontario, as opposed to Ottawa, which was slightly higher. Meanwhile, they had no idea there were median wages specific to Ottawa. They offered her a raise and resubmitted the LMIA application.
But it was too late.