August 26, 2020 – In April 2013, Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada (IRCC) adopted rules to manage business immigration applications under the Start-Up Visa Program (SUV) category. At first a pilot project, SUV became a permanent federal immigration program in 2018….
July 31, 2020 – Start-up Visa’s applicants are eligible to obtain a temporary work permit during the processing of their permanent resident application. It is a requirement for applicants requesting a work permit to be qualified as “essential” and be needed in…
July 22, 2020 – The Canadian federal court dismissed another judicial review application by a start-up visa entrepreneur in the case Truong v. Canada (IMM-5162-19). Ms. Truong, a Vietnamese citizen with a bachelor degree in marketing and management, had acquired…
July 21, 2020 – The immigration officer in charge of deciding on a startup visa application has the discretion to call for a peer review, i.e. a panel formed by members who have the expertise to assess the application, business…
July 9, 2020 – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced a change in its interpretation of “parent” under the Citizenship Act, allowing non-biological Canadian parents who are the legal parents of child born abroad to pass down Canadian citizenship in…
July 7, 2020 – Created in 1986, the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) attracts investors from all over the world, who are interested to settle in Quebec with a Canadian permanent resident visa. According to official record obtained from the…
June 22, 2020 – Quebec’s Prime Ministre Francois Legault reshuffled his cabinet, appointing a new Minister of Immigration, Francization and Integration, in the person of Mrs. Nadine Girault. Before entering politics, Mrs. Girault held important managerial positions, including as member…
June 15, 2020 – Review and Submission – Following the review by an Irish legal advisor of the documentation provided the applicant, the Irish Immigrant Investor Program (“IIIP”) application is submitted to the Irish Naturalization and Immigration Service (“INIS”) if…
June 15, 2020 – To maintain the residency permission in Ireland, the applicant shall be required to travel to Ireland at least once a calendar year (e.g. January to December of each year) for an initial two-year period. At the…
June 13, 2020 – The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently updated their form I-526, an essential document part of an EB-5 petition. Previously, the petitioner was named “entrepreneur”. As per the recent change, the petition is now…