Canadian court allows Chinese miners with temporary work visas to stay
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10:13 04/06/2013
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that a company that employed 200 Chinese miners under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in 2012 was acting lawfully. Two Canadian unions had challenged...
Canada seeks to lure high-tech immigrants from US with 'Dragon's Den' visa
12:12 29/05/2013
Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney will travel to Silicon Valley in the US this weekend to try to tempt high-tech entrepreneurs to apply for a Canadian visa program that could see their...
New, improved Canadian Federal Skilled Worker Program visa stream opens
14:48 16/05/2013
Canada's Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), the country's main immigration programme for skilled workers, reopened on 4th May 2013. The new FSWP will favour younger applicants. Some 55,000...
300,000 Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada with TFWP visas
10:04 13/05/2013
The latest figures from the Canadian government show that there are now over 300,000 workers in Canada with work permits allowing them to work for one or two years under the Canadian Temporary...
Canadian-immigration-to re-evaluate intra company transfer program
15:58 07/05/2013
Jason Kenney, the Canadian immigration minister has said that his department, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), will investigate allegations of abuse of the Canadian Intra Company Transfer...
Canada reforms temporary immigration visa regime
13:24 03/05/2013
Canadian government ministers have announced a U-turn in their policy on temporary foreign workers. The announcement comes after two high profile cases which seemed to show abuse of the system have...