Canada reopened borders for fully vaccinated international travelers
On September 7, 2021, Canada reopened state borders for international travelers arriving in Canada by air.
All international travelers still have to meet specific entry requirements and had received the full dose of one of the four vaccines approved by Health Canada at least 14 days prior to entering Canada.
All travelers have to submit their travel information on ArriveCAN.
Although these fully vaccinated travelers are not required to quarantine upon arrival to Canada, they still must provide a quarantine plan.
In order to be granted entry to Canada, foreign nationals must possess a valid temporary resident visa (TRV) or electronic travel authorization (eTA) if they are from the visa-exempt country.
#Travel_restrictions, #Borders, #international_travellers, #Covid_19, #Vaccination, #ArriveCan, #TRV, #eTA
September 7, 2021
Immigrants who face immigration processing delays to bring their spouses to Canada held a protest outside the IRCC office in Toronto demanding IRCC to process their applications in a short period of time to join their spouses.
Most immigrants were frustrated about not getting a response from IRCC demanding to speed up spousal sponsorship and to prioritize family sponsorship.
Many protesters expressed their desire to reunite the families since they were experiencing mental health issues after being were separated from their family members for a long time.
#IRCC, #protest, #spousal_sponsorship, #family_sponsorship, #Family_reunion
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protesters-immigration-minister-office-1.5637957
September 3, 2021
On September 1, 2021, the Liberal Party released a new election platform that addresses long-standing policy problems in the country as well as discusses future improvements in the immigration system.
The Party promised to
1.expand pathways to Permanent Residence for temporary foreign workers and former international students;
2.create the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot and welcome 2,000 skilled refugees to fill labour shortages in demanded sectors such as health care;
3.expand the new immigration stream for human rights defenders; increase the demographic weight of Francophones in the country and support Francophone immigration outside of Quebec,
4.and introduce electronic applications for family reunification.
Liberals also promise to make the Citizenship application process free for permanent residents who have fulfilled the requirements needed to obtain it. To note, the Party still has not waived the $630 citizenship fee, promised during the 2019 elections.
#Liberal_Party, #elections_2021, #Liberals
https://liberal.ca/our-platform/September 2, 2021
August 31, 2021, was the last day for receipt of applications under the Special Program for Asylum Seekers during the COVID-19 Period.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had granted permanent residence (PR) under the Temporary Public Policy to certain foreign nationals selected by Quebec working in the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Since on April 31, 2021, the period for receipt of applications ended, IRCC extended the deadline until the end of August 2021, to let more candidates submit an application for PR.
#Quebec, #Asylum_seekers, #refugees, #Essential_workers, #Healthcare_sector
September 2, 2021
