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As usual, the answer is "yes, but" you need to know the rules. In general, Canadian employers may increase a salary of foreign workers without getting authorization within a consumer price index - which has been at 2 or 3% to match the inflation. Recently, we are...

A Sudbury, Ont., woman says her Jamaican husband has been turned down for Canadian residency and they're appealing immigration officials' decision, but in the meantime, he could miss their child's birth in October. Ariella Ladouceur said she and Cordell James got...

More than a hundred foreign workers employed through a third-party agency are out of a job and at least some of them have been ordered to leave the country after the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) found they were working in the country without the proper...

Believe it or not, the number one reason for your labour market impact assessment is incomplete application. In fact, your application will be "returned" without even getting a file number. You don't even get your application returned, but shredded. It is critical to...

On July 14, 2022, the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) issued targeted notifications of interest to candidates who may qualify for Ontario’s Express Entry Skilled Trades stream. The OINP targeted candidates with a comprehensive ranking system score between 310...

The federal government has announced that it will be resuming mandatory random COVID-19 testing for international travellers arriving at four major airports. Ottawa had initially suspended random testing for fully vaccinated travellers last month after airport...

If the ArriveCan app is offline (such as during a network outage), travellers must now have paper copies of vaccination status. Rogers services are back online for most customers after a daylong outage at the telecom giant that left millions of Canadians without...

1st Express Entry draw since Sept, 2021 for all classes – the lowest score was 557 for 1,500 invitation to apply! Read more about eligibility at...

Canada's immigration department is restarting its draws on July 6th for all programs under Express Entry -- a system used to select so-called economic immigrants -- after it temporarily shut down over the pandemic and travel restrictions that came with it. While this...

The federal government announced that all existing border restrictions to enter Canada will remain in place until at least Sept. 30. That means foreign travellers will still need to provide proof of being fully vaccinated to enter the country and unvaccinated...

Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his government is preparing to create a program that would help to speed up the process of turning newcomers in Canada under temporary permits into permanent residents. "We are looking right now at the best path forward to create...

As we have been anticipated since last year, IRCC and ESDC are moving to update the current National Occupation Classification (set in 2016) for 2022. So far, they have updated this index every 10 years so. However, at this point, NOC will be updated as of 2022 –...