IRCC issued an update on automatic application extensions
On April 12, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), published an update regarding automatic 90-day extensions for applications with missing documents. From now on, IRCC will grant only extra 30 days to submit the required documents. The new instructions are applied to applications for temporary residence, permanent residence and citizenship applications. At the same time, candidates with reasonable COVID-19-related grounds will still be facilitated as per officer discretion.
#IRCC, #immigration_policy, #COVID_19
Canada invited 938 International Experience Canada candidates
Over the last week, Canada conducted new invitation rounds in the pools of the International Experience Canada (IEC) program. From April 4 to April 8, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 938 Invitations to Apply (ITA) for an IEC open work permit. As of April 8, there are 14,886 candidates registered in the pool, waiting for the invitation. In this round, there were 15 ITAs for Australia, 5 ITAs for Belgium, 134 ITAs for Chile, 5 ITAs for Costa Rica, 4 ITAs for Croatia, 57 ITAs for the Czech Republic, 1 ITA for Denmark, 239 ITAs for France, 15 ITAs for Greece, 3 ITAs for Hong Kong, 243 ITAs for Ireland, 6 ITAs for Italy, 10 ITAs for Japan, 36 ITAs for South Korea, 11 ITAs for the Netherlands, 11 ITAs for Portugal, 13 ITAs for Slovakia, 19 ITAs for Spain, 2 ITAs for Sweden, 6 ITAs for Switzerland, 19 ITAs for Taiwan, and 84 ITAs for the United Kingdom. In total, Canada issued 4,253 ITAs under the IEC in 2021.
#IRCC, #IEC, #ITA, #Working_Holiday, #Young_Professionals, #International_CoOp, #work_permits, #work_in_Canada
IRCC to modify instructions for temporary resident permit (TRP) for victims of family violence
On April 8, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) published and updated the instructions for Temporary Resident Permits (TRPs) regulations for victims of family violence. Applicants or their designates can now send a family violence TRP application to the closest local IRCC office by mail. Earlier such applications were processed only in the Case Processing Centre in Edmonton. The new procedure may improve the processing of these urgent cases. IRCC also updated instructions for officers regarding assessing TRP eligibility when PR applications have not yet been submitted.
#TRP, #IRCC, #family_violence, #immigration_policy
IRCC moved all economic immigration application to online
On April 8, 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced a major change in permanent residence application submissions. All paper-based economic immigration applications can now be submitted online via the IRCC portal. This update includes PR applications in the Non-Express Entry Provincial Nominee Program streams, Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, Agri-Food Immigration Pilot, Atlantic Immigration Pilot, and all Quebec economic programs such as Quebec Selected Investor Program, Quebec Entrepreneur Program, and Quebec Self-Employed Persons Program. In addition, IRCC updated the terminology used in the departmental documents and guides removing the term “paper-based” applications under the Provincial Nominee Program to “non-Express Entry” applications under the Provincial Nominee Program. Those applications will now be called base nominations, while Express Entry PNPs will be called enhanced nominations. This means that almost all economic immigration applications have been digitalized.
#IRCC, #PR, #permanent_residence, #PNP, #AIPP, #RNIP, #AFIP, #Quebec, #Self_Employed, #Investors, #Entrepreneurs
