Canada Immigration News

Residents of Vladivostok and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk will be offered a series of seminars in late June by Paul Whelan, the Minister Counselor and Immigration Program Manager for the Canadian Embassy in Russia.

Whelan's visit to the Russian Far East will last from 24 to 29 June. Russians who attend his seminars will learn about topics such as temporary employment as well as Canada's skilled immigration program for professionals.

Canada has introduced proposed amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) that will allow immigration officers to deny work permits to those entering the country to work as exotic dancers.

An agreement signed between the Canadian federal government and Alberta will allow the province to attract ten times the current number of immigrants over the next ten years.

The number of immigrants currently allotted to the province is set at 2,500, but it will be raised to 25,000 over the next decade. This is expected to constitute 10% of all immigration to Canada.

Canada is set to deport another ex-member of the KGB. Givi Abramishvili, 70, rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Soviet Union's infamous KGB. He has been living in Canada for the last eight years.

CBC News has found that the number of people who have been stripped of Canadian citizenship - the so-called 'Lost Canadians' - is far greater than the federal government has let on.

Immigration Minister Diane Finely originally stated that her department was handling 450 cases of people affected by an obscure immigration law called the 1947 Citizenship Act that strips citizenship from those with unusual circumstances such as being born to a non-Canadian mother out of wedlock or to parents living overseas.

Located about 200 kilometers north of the border with the United States, Kamloops is a city of nearly 87,000 in British Columbia, Canada, about 350 kilometers east and a bit north of Vancouver.