Canada’s announcement that it will impose visa requirements effective a minute after midnight Tuesday on the top two sources of refugee claimants — Mexico and the Czech Republic — prompted a quick and dissatisfied reaction from those countries.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday that many of the asylum requests are either rejected or abandoned, [...]

Victims of immigration scams or unethical/dishonest behaviour by immigration representatives are invited to participate in an on-line survey to provide input into the Government of Canada’s efforts to prevent fraud and other wrongdoing.

The survey, available on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website for the next two weeks, is part of a campaign to [...]

A new online resource to help newcomers and prospective immigrants put their skills to work in Canada faster was announced today by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney.

“Each year, thousands of skilled newcomers arrive in Canada. It is in their interest, and in Canada’s interest, to do everything we can to help them [...]

By Jason Buckland, Sympatico / MSN Finance

There’s a hotly-contested issue surrounding this recession that hasn’t seemed to draw much media attention, subsequently gliding a bit under the social radar.

And it’s a two-pronged matter, really: what impact is immigration having on the struggling Canadian economy, and – because of the downturn – [...]

Lured by the promise of a better life, hundreds of foreign-trained nannies have found themselves working illegally in menial jobs, without their passports and owing thousands to job agencies. ‘This is human trafficking’

“A Toronto Star investigation has found that the popular federal Live-In Caregiver Program has become a nanny trap. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of [...]

Canada will “substantially increase” the number of foreign students it admits this year, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced today.

Australia brings in 10 times the students from India that Canada does, he said at a conference in downtown Toronto for more than 1,400 unemployed or underemployed internationally educated professionals keen to figure out the secrets [...]