CIC Daily

The required amount of settlement funds have now increased from 2015 for those applying as a Skilled Immigrant to Canada under the Express Entry System.

As of December 17th, 2015 at 4:30 PM local time, Nova Scotia has put a temporary halt on the acceptance of new applications under the Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry program. This is to allow their office to process their current backlog. Applications are currently taking 9 months to process. They will lift the halt…

On July 31st, 2015, CIC has released valuable information about those in the Express Entry Pool as of July, 2015. At that time there were only 41,218 active applicants in the Pool for consideration. This was the number of all active applicants from around the world. As of that date 112,701 people had created Express…

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced their Immigrant Investor Venture Capital Class will open for applications on May 25th, 2015. Under the new processes, they will only be accepting 60 complete applications before December 30, 2015. Foreign Nationals who meet the following requirements are eligible to apply: They intend to reside in any province other…

Effective March 15, 2016, certain travellers will need an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) to enter Canada. The eTA would need to be applied for before boarding your flight to Canada. You can apply online at a fee of $7 Canadian per eTA. You will need access to your passport, a credit card (Visa and Mastercard only),…