The Canadian Immigrant Integration Program partners with schools across the world to assist immigrants in their transition to Canada. These foreign schools train immigrants for the Federal Skilled Worker Program and Provincial Nominees Program and provide them with the necessary knowledge to succeed once in Canada as Permanent Residents. Many of these immigrants will be […]

Permanent Resident Cards, which are also called PR cards, are one of the documents that prove that an immigrant is a Permanent Resident. Permanent Residency is the right to live, work, travel and study within Canada at will. The status does not expire, however there are certain things that can be done to make it

The Permanent Resident Card is the document that proves that you are allowed to re-enter Canada and is very important if you are travelling abroad. Before you leave Canada you should first plan out carefully what your itinerary will be so that you will be able to return without your PR Card expiring. It is

Permanent Residents in Canada are allowed to travel freely throughout Canada at will, but what if they want to go to the United States? Depending on which country you hold citizenship, traveling from Canada to the United States can be relatively easy. Permanent Residency in Canada does not necessarily make you from Canada in the

There are many different reasons for why you may have lost your landed immigration papers and really, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how they were lost, but how you will replace them. The Canadian government and Citizenship and Immigration Canada understand that sometimes papers get lost and they have a process

Immigration can be a difficult thing to accomplish and government bureaucracies aren’t always very easy to understand or very helpful. Sometimes you might spend a significant amount of time researching one aspect of the immigration process, but still only have a foggy image of the answer you seek. Here at Immigration Direct, we address many

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has been rolling out some great new programs for 2013 to help you immigrate, get Permanent Residency and succeed! The Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, has been avidly pursuing the creation of immigration classes that help build and sustain the economy of Canada, and they will all start accepting

Getting Canadian citizenship is significantly easier than getting a Permanent Resident Card, so the amount of time it takes to get a citizenship certificate is much shorter than getting a PR Card. The catch, of course, is that you can’t just skip straight to the Canadian citizenship application. Immigrants who apply for citizenship are required

Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s Minister, Jason Kenney, announced a new award for excellence in Holocaust education, schools that win the award are given $5,000. The CIC is not solely limited to the paperwork and processing of immigration issues, nor is it so myopic to only concern itself with citizenship oaths, but is also tasked with

Permanent Residents of Canada maintain the right to live and work anywhere within the country, but did you know that you can travel outside of Canada too? In fact, that’s a huge benefit of having an up-to-date Permanent Resident Card and you should always check its expiration date before you intend to go abroad. Immigration