The Northwest Territories nomination process reached an important moment on September 25, 2026, when the Northwest Territories Nominee Program (NTNP) invited 105 foreign workers to move forward with a territorial nomination application. For skilled workers, semi-skilled workers, and employers across the territory who are hoping to turn a temporary work [...]
Canada has announced that a new Labrador biometrics site will open in Happy Valley-Goose Bay in January 2027, ending a long-standing situation in which immigration applicants across Labrador have had to travel to St. John’s, Newfoundland, to provide their fingerprints and photograph. Immigration Minister Lena Diab announced this at a [...]
Canada has changed how immigration officers handle employer-specific work permit applications that rely on job offers they consider doubtful. Officers can no longer refuse such an application outright and without warning. They must now explain their concerns about the job offer and give the applicant and the employer a fair [...]
Canada continues to use provincial immigration programs to respond to regional labour-market needs, and Manitoba’s latest selection round has delivered an important development for skilled professionals working in science, technology, engineering, architecture and related technical fields. On September 24, 2026, the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program, commonly known as the MPNP, [...]
Newfoundland and Labrador immigration just received one of its most significant boosts in recent memory. In August 2026, the federal government approved 1,000 additional nomination spaces for the province, and Newfoundland and Labrador placed every one of them into the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Nominee Program (NLPNP). The NLPNP’s annual [...]
Canada has once again opened the door to experienced leaders. In the senior managers Express Entry draw held on September 16, 2026, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 250 invitations to apply for permanent residence, setting the minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score at 389. It was the third [...]
Tariffs, retaliatory measures, and sharp political rhetoric have strained the relationship between Washington and Ottawa. Yet the strain has not pushed Americans away from Canada. For a growing number of people, it has had the opposite effect. Americans applying for Canadian citizenship are asking practical questions about residency, family roots, [...]
Newfoundland and Labrador provincial immigration moved forward again on September 18, 2026, when the province’s Office of Immigration and Multiculturalism issued 62 invitations to apply, including 61 through the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Nominee Program (NLPNP) and one through the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP). The round was small, yet it [...]
Anyone who has recently submitted a work permit, study permit, visitor visa, or super visa application to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has likely noticed the same troubling pattern: processing is taking longer. Across nearly every major applicant category and country of origin, IRCC’s weekly processing time updates throughout [...]
Global Talent Stream referral partners are now fewer, and the change affects every Canadian employer that relies on Category A to hire specialised foreign talent quickly. The federal government has quietly reshaped one of the most valuable fast-track hiring routes in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). Seventeen organisations were [...]