With the EE Draws planning to be on freeze, I forsee many "Restaurant Managers" now suddenly becoming "Food Servers" and Chefs/Cooks now becoming "Kitchen Helpers" for BCPNP Purposes. It's a sad but harsh reality of such a weakly designed system.

May 2021 internal IRCC Memo to the Deputy Minister notes that the TRPR pathway could impact operational activities in 2022 and displace applicants in other inventories, some of whom will have significantly aged applications.

IRCC notice on its use of advanced analytics affirms that AI does not refuse files. The AI sends files that it has not approved to officers to process. I have supplemented today's notice with instructions to visa officers on AI triage obtained through ATI. canada.ca/en/immigration…

U.S. Homeland agent said the Indian national “reported that he paid a significant amount of money to enter Canada from India under a fraudulently obtained student visa.He did not intend to study in Canada but rather to illegally enter the United States.” thestar.com/news/canada/20…

Attention students! ⚠️ You should not use an educational recruiter to provide immigration advice, except if the educational recruiter is also an authorized immigration representative. To find out who is an authorized representative click 👉 bit.ly/35pgvRv

Internal IRCC Memo - major projected changes to Express Entry (pause on draws, CRS 500+, reducing admission targets) #cdnimm

The IRCC website states that open work permits under the TRPR expire on December 31, 2022 because all TRPR immigration applications will be processed by then. Today's announcement shows many won't be. Hopefully they quickly extend TRPR open work permits. canada.ca/en/immigration…

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Nearly 4,000 Ukrainian immigration applicants approved to come to Canada since conflict with Russia began #cdnimm #Ukraine | ctvnews.ca/canada/nearly-… via CTV News

IRCC REP-2019-2540 Is IRPR 186(w), which lets eligible international graduates work without a work permit while waiting for IRCC to process their work permit applications, limited to post-graduate work permit applications? Answer - No.

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Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system #226 – July 6, 2022 No program specified Number of invitations issued: 1,500 Date and time of round: July 6, 2022 CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 557

Woman Sikh police officer speaks on fate of 40 Punjabi youths who tried to ‘intimidate’ Canadian cop on duty tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/…

Foreign students say Canada is exploiting them for ‘cheap labour’ - Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-…

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Islamophobia and discrimination are unacceptable. Period. Today, we’re appointing Amira Elghawaby as Canada’s first Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia to help end this hate – and to build a better future for everyone. More here: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-r…

Todey #EEDraw - 02nd Feb #FSW only CRS - 489 ITAs - 3300 Federal Skilled Worker Program Draw Tazzu

🇨🇦 Study visa #refusal rate increased from 34% to 53% after #implementation of "Chinook" and even higher for #Indian applicants at 57%. 🇨🇦 Get full #details here! 👇 immigrationnewscanada.ca/meet-chinook-i…

Internal IRCC correspondence from January 2022 highlights some of the complexities of clearing the caregiver backlog. IRCC officers working full-time on completeness checks can apparently do 2.5 completeness checks per day.