Immigration Update
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On May 23, 2024, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced support for family members of Canadians and Haitian nationals unable to return home.
Effective immediately, Haitians with temporary resident status can apply for study or work permits or status extensions free of charge.
This also applies to foreign relatives who left Haiti. Eligible individuals will receive three months of health coverage.
Amid Haiti's volatile security situation, Canada transported 681 people, including Canadians and permanent and temporary residents, to safety. Currently, there are about 44,000 Haitian temporary residents in Canada.
#Haiti, #temporary_residents, #Haiti_Crisis, #IRCC
On May 22, 2024, Canada announced updates to its Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), expanding work designations for spouses or common-law partners of full-time students.
Effective April 30, 2024, this includes partners of students in graduate programs, professional degree programs, or those participating in eligible pilot programs.
It also applies to partners holding a valid open work permit under the C42 category and extending their work permit as spouses of full-time students in a PGWP-eligible program of study. Applications received before April 29, 2024, are exempt from this change.
#IRPR, #international_students, #PGWP, #spouses, #open_work_permits
Last year, Canada imposed fines totalling $2.7m on 194 employers for non-compliance with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) rules.
These rules include meeting Labour Market Impact Assessment requirements and keeping records for six years. Between April 2022 and March 2023, 116 employers faced penalties of $1.54m due to non-compliance.
Penalties can go up to $100,000 per violation and reach $1m annually.
The average fine increased to $28,836 in 2024. In 2023, compliance was observed in over 95% of the 2,100+ inspections carried out.
#TFWP, #foreign_workers, #LMIA
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has not made significant strides in improving immigrants' information accessibility concerning their applications, which has had ramifications for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).
The surge in information access requests has become a critical issue despite IRCC's strategy to manage the escalation.
The report indicates that access requests have increased by more than double since the fiscal year ending in March 2018. CBSA experienced a 130% rise between 2020 and 2023, while IRCC fielded over 180,000 requests during 2022-23 and 2023-24.
The Office of the Information Commissioner has been forced to reallocate its resources to accommodate the uptick in complaints.
The operations division of IRCC is cited for not tackling the underlying issue. However, IRCC maintains that it has measures in progress to address the large number of requests.
#IRCC, #CBSA, #statistics, #Access_to_information_and_privacy
