The delay from the time a case is filed at the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board has reached three years and even longer in some files. So, people who have received what they feel is an unfair decision by a visa office refusing the sponsorship … Read More
Summer time is travel time for many persons. When returning to Canada, some might be tempted to try their luck and hide items obtained abroad in their luggage. Others might declare the items to the Customs / Canada Border Services Agency officer, but provide false information as to their true … Read More
Canadian Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced the end of “conditional permanent residency” for certain sponsored spouses and common-law partners on April 28, 2017. Previously, certain sponsored persons were obliged to live together in a conjugal relationship with their sponsors for at least two years after arriving in Canada to retain … Read More
Canada’s new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, is the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, the Member of Parliament for York South-Weston, in Ontario. He was sworn into office on January 10, 2017. Mr. Hussen arrived in Canada as a teenage refugee from Somalia, via Kenya, in 1993. A lawyer and social … Read More
Major announcements were made by the Canadian Immigration Minister Honourable John McCallum on December 7, 2016 regarding sponsorship of spouses to settle as a permanent resident of Canada. Mr. McCallum used a day care centre as backdrop to emphasize the importance of family reunification (see image with this article from … Read More