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New policy to help former international students live in, work in and continue contributing to Canada. To support international students through this challenging time, January 8 it has been announced that former international students who hold or held a PGWP will have the opportunity to apply for an open work permit. Foreign nationals in Canada affected by the pandemic with an expired or expiring PGWP will have a unique chance to apply for another open work permit. ... These will be valid for 18 months and allow former international students to remain in Canada, continue to seek employment and build their future in this country. The government has made significant efforts to encourage international students to settle permanently in Canada, as they help create jobs and fill labour shortages so our businesses can thrive.

New pre-departure COVID-19 testing requirements come into effect for all air travellers flying into Canada Effective midnight on January 7, 2021 (00:00 EST or 05:00 UCT), regardless of citizenship, all travellers five years of age or older must provide proof of a negative laboratory test result for COVID-19 to the airline prior to boarding a flight to Canada. The test must be performed using one of two types of COVID-19 testseither a molecular polymerase chain reaction (PCR...) or Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP)and must be conducted within 72 hours of the traveller’s scheduled departure to Canada. All travellers coming to Canada must present this information at the time of boarding. Failure to do so will mean an automatic denial of boarding by the airline operating the flight to Canada. Once travellers arrive in Canada, Canada Border Services officers will question and observe them for any indication that they may be ill. These travellers will be referred to Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) officials for further assessment, screening and questioning. Officers will apply great scrutiny to travellers’ quarantine plans while ensuring that they are admissible to Canada. PHAC works closely with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and provincial law enforcement agencies to verify the compliance of returning travellers.

Parents and Grandparents Program will be re-opened soon!!! Starting from October 13, at 12pm till Novemebr 3,12 pm Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)will accept interest to sponsor forms for the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) . This is an opportuntiy for people to express their interet in sponsoring their parents and grandparents. Then it will randomly select potential sponsors and send them an invitation to submit an application. Selected applicants... will have up to 60 days to submit their completed sponsorship application. IRCC will accept a maximum of 10,000 applications in 2020. It will open a new intake of interest to sponsor process in 2021 to accept a total of 30,000 new applications. IRCC is also introducing a temporary public policy that will reduce the income requirement for the 2020 tax year to the minimum necessary income, rather than the minimum necessary income plus 30 per cent. This is to accommodate those who have been negatively affected financially by the coronavirus pandemic.

The major news has just been announced by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) regarding sponsorship application IRCC noted that the coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty for Canadian citizens and permanent residents looking to sponsor their spouse. It will continue to seek innovative and compassionate ways to bring families together. Canada is seeking to process and finalize 6,000 spousal sponsorship applications each month between October and December... 2020. IRCC has increased the number of staff that will review spousal sponsorship applications by 66 per cent in order to reduce wait times and process applications more quickly.

In latest Express Entry draw CRS score dropped again to 452 On May 1 the Government of Canada has issued 3,311 Invitations to Apply to Express Entry candidates. The Invitations to Apply, or ITAs, were issued to Express Entry candidates under the Canadian Experience Class (CEC). The minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score for these candidates was 452.