Canada Immigration Blog

British Columbia, (hereinafter “BC”), Canada’s westernmost province, is located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. Although BC happens to be Canada’s third most populous province, the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (hereinafter “BC PNP”) offers three ways for you to become a permanent resident of BC: Skills Immigration; Express Entry BC and Entrepreneur Immigration. Your skill level, (as determined by the National Occupational Classification), your job, or your international student status are some of the most important determining factors in the application process.
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The Canadian Parliament recently announced that it was going to add more than one million new permanent residents in next three years (2019-2021). It is foreseeable that more than half of the new permanent residents will arrive on one of the three economic programs in the Express Entry program
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Kanada ve ABD göçmen avukatları, 1994 yılından bu yana Kuzey Amerika'da sınır ötesi çalışanların kabulünü kolaylaştıracak yararlı bir araç olan NAFTA'nın geleceğinden endişe duyuyorlar. ABD Başkanlığı kampanyası boyunca Başkan Trump,
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Canadian and U.S. immigration lawyers have been concerned about the future of the NAFTA, a treaty which has been serving as a useful vehicle to facilitate the cross-border admission of foreign workers in North America since 1994.
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O governo do Canadá se pronunciou recentemente sobre a sua visão a respeito de casamentos falsos e a sua relação com o patrocínio fraudulento de direito à cidadania. 

Você se lembra do filme "Green Card", estrelado pelo ator Gérard Depardieu, no qual ele faz o papel do protagonista, um francês que casa com uma cidadã americana somente para obter a residência permanente nos EUA (o chamado "green card”)?

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Ms. Malka is a Managing Lawyer (Licenced in Ontario by the Law Society of Upper Canada, but practicing from the USA) at Canadian Law Group (a Canadian Immigration Firm in New Jersey).

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Canada has just pronounced itself on how it views marriage fraud and its relationship to false sponsorships.

Do you remember the movie “Green Card,” starring Gérard Depardieu, in which the protagonist from France (Depardieu) married a U.S. citizen solely to obtain permanent residence (the “green card”) in the U.S.A.? Of course, à la Hollywood, in that movie the applicant ended up truly falling in love with the sponsor and they lived happily ever after. However, in real life, when there is marriage fraud, this almost never happens.
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The Canadian government now requires visa- exempt foreign nationals travelling to Canada by air to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) before boarding the plane. Starting August 1, 2015, visa- exempt travelers can apply online for an eTA and on March 15, 2016, an eTA will be mandatory for visa- exempt travelers before they can board their flight to Canada. The new travel authorization system will require persons planning to travel to Canada by air to give the Canadian government their personal information in order for Canadian authorities to check their names against databases to determine if they pose a threat to the health, safety or security of Canada. U.S. citizens, travelers with a valid visa, and travelers by land or sea, are exempt.
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We are not half-way through the first year of the implementation of a revolutionary selection system initiated by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. In sum, the Express Entry system revolves around an online application within the several federal programs for foreign workers, with the ultimate goal of strongly facilitating nominee selection of permanent visas for foreign workers. Many are asking: Is the new system working for immigrants? 

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Under NAFTA, workers in the USA can often times appear at a Canadian Port of Entry and present their applicaton for a work permit in Canada, and receive a work permit for $150. But since the spring, many U.S. workers have been turned away and told that there is a new "filing" requirement they need to satidfy before making their Port application.

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"Express Entry," a new immigration system, used to manage and select applicants to immigrate into the country.

• Express Entry uses electronic profiles to highlight a person's best attributes including education, work experience and language skills, among others

• These profiles are looked at under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program or Canadian Experience Class and then put into a pool of candidates

• An individual will wait in this pool until given an invitation to apply for permanent residence

• Candidates are chosen on a point based system, with priority given to those people who match Canada's economic needs, therefore only top ranking candidates will be invited

• Once invited, an individual has 60 days to submit an application for permanent residence

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