September 2023

     IRCC has announced the re-opening of the Parents and Grandparents Program for 2023. Yet again, applicants will only be selected from the pool of submissions from 2020. Those not selected in 2020, 2021 or 2022 will be eligible for random selection.

August 2023

Earlier this month, IRCC announced a new public policy that allows some temporary workers to study without a study permit.

July 2023

Please note, this program has now closed.

On July 16^th, IRCC will begin accepting applications for three-year open work permits for holders of H-1B (USA) visas. The first 10,000 applicants will be accepted.

July 2023

Last month, my office received a package from IRCC. In it were four applications. We had been hired by a Canadian citizen to obtain citizenship certificates for her children born in the USA. On one application, we failed to check the box indicating the child’s gender. In her review, the client also didn’t notice the unchecked box. All four applications were sent back to us because of the missing checkmark so that we could place a checkmark in the box, place all four applications back in a courier envelope, and return them to IRCC.