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 [...]

Source: The Globe and Mail.com

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the number of new arrivals to Canada could fall if labour markets contract and there are no jobs for them to fill.

“Obviously we will monitor the economic situation and, if it’s absolutely necessary, the government can always modify the targets. [...]

Source: The Record.com

Skilled immigrants in Waterloo Region should have better access to their field of expertise, thanks to a new internship program.

A partnership between the Waterloo Region Immigrant Employment Network and Conestoga College, the program aims to create at least 30 four-month paid internships within the first year.

The plan was [...]

Really good article from Kaieteur News

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Visas cannot be guaranteed by Consultants January 28, 2009 | By knews | Filed Under News 

Canadian immigration website says…

Immigration representatives do not have special connections with Canadian government [...]

On my last post, I’ve received a comment explaining that even though Canada is looking for newcomers in order to cope with its labour shortage, still, some qualified immigrants “struggle” to find a job here. It is true that some employers become “newcomers barriers” and that the cultural shock has some major impact in our [...]

Think our current economic problems are bad?

They’re just the tip of the iceberg if Canada’s workforce doesn’t undergo some serious restructuring and fast, a Halifax-based think-tank said in a December study.

With the first wave of baby boomers entering retirement age and a lack of young people entering the skilled trades, Canada will be [...]