News

18 July, 2014

Promoting jobs and economic growth through Canada's Start-up Visa

Minister Alexander met with the entrepreneurs at GrowLab Ventures Inc. of Vancouver, the Canadian business incubator that is supporting Stanislav Korsei and Oleksandr Zadorozhnyi, formerly of Ukraine, in the development of their company, Zeetl Inc. Read more

14 July, 2014

New Immigrant Investor Program in the Works

Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander met with business leaders to begin formulating plans for a new federal immigrant investor program. The program will be known as the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital pilot. Read more

11 July, 2014

Immigration Minister Highlights Success of Canadian Citizenship Program

Canadian Citizen and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that Canada had welcomed its 100,000th new citizen of 2014. Read more

03 July, 2014

Foreign workers in Canada: Let’s separate the facts from the myths

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) lately, provoked in part by commendable media reports highlighting abuses of the program. Read more

20 June, 2014

Government welcomes Royal Assent of Bill C-24

Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced today that reforms to the Citizenship Act received final passage and Royal Assent. Read more

20 June, 2014

Citizenship and Immigration Canada Funds Literacy Program for New Canadian Families

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters, a new program designed to help immigrant mothers prepare their children for kindergarten Read more

20 June, 2014

Citizenship and Immigration Canada Announces Number of Applications to Federal Skilled Worker Program

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced the total number of applications received for the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP). Since the program reopened on May 1st, 157 applications have been received toward the overall cap of 25,000. Read more

16 June, 2014

2013 Saw Record Number of Visitors, Immigrants from China, India and Philippines

Last year broke several records for visitors and immigrants from the three largest source countries for newcomers to Canada. Every year tens of thousands of individuals from China, India, and the Philippines become permanent residents of Canada Read more

16 June, 2014

Canada’s New Immigration Model Will be Called “Express Entry”

Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that Canada’s new recruitment model for economic immigration will be called “Express Entry”. This new model is set to launch in January 2015. Read more