One million people have used Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) Immigration Wizard since its inception on August 5, 2011. The Wizard is designed to provide potential immigrants with useful information on what they need to do in order to come to Canada. Initial responses to the program were positive and it appears that the Wizard […]

The shortest answer to this question is yes, you will need your PR Card to come back to Canada in a smooth and orderly fashion. Permanent Residents are of course allowed to travel abroad at any time they wish as long as they maintain basic residency requirements to retain their PR status, but part of

Citizenship and Immigration Canada established an online Help Centre on their website about six months ago and in a news release from Wednesday they announced that four million people had used it. “People have questions about how to come to Canada and this new user-friendly and convenient Web tool provides the practical information that they

As a part of continuing immigration reform in the Canadian government by Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, applicants who fail their citizenship test will get a chance to re-do it, according to a Citizenship and Immigration Canada news release. The citizenship test is one of the last steps for a Permanent Resident

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has increased funding for settlement funding programs throughout Canada. British Colombia has seen an almost 300% increase in funding since 2006. Because of this increase in money available for settlement funding, the government of British Colombia is currently accepting proposals from organizations and individuals for the creation and start-up of

Moving can be a stressful situation regardless of where you move, but it is only compounded when you move to an entirely new country with a new language and new culture. Immigrating to Canada is no different from moving to any other country, really, but Canada has a support system that can prove to be

If you have applied as a sponsor for an immigrant application, you can check the status of the application online at the CIC’s website. You will simply need some of the information you included in the application before you check the status of the application. Principal applicants can also check their status using this website.

There are a few different ways by which a person can lose their Canadian citizenship, however some cases allow these people to resume their citizenship in Canada. The qualifications that need to be met for a person to be able to resume their Canadian citizenship using this process are very strict and apply to only

Processing times are a way for Citizenship and Immigration Canada to inform its customers about how long they will have to wait for their applications to be accepted. Knowing a certain forms processing time will help you better track the process of immigrating to the United States. If the form you filed is taking longer

Processing times are the estimated length of time it will take for a particular form to be processed and approved. You can use the processing times available through Citizenship and Immigration Canada to get an approximate amount of time you must wait in order to get certain immigration benefits. It is important to note that