citizenship – AKCanada https://www.akcanada.com A Blog all about Canadian Immigration Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:59:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.akcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/favicon.jpg citizenship – AKCanada https://www.akcanada.com 32 32 Government of Canada Introduces Legislation for Citizenship by Descent https://www.akcanada.com/government-of-canada-introduces-legislation-for-citizenship-by-descent/ Thu, 23 May 2024 15:31:48 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/?p=2974 Today, Thursday, May 23, 2024, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), introduced legislation that would extend citizenship by descent beyond the first generation. Bill C-71, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2024), would automatically confer Canadian citizenship to persons born abroad to a Canadian parent who is also born […]

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]]> Canada Ranks No. 1 in Global Quality of Life List https://www.akcanada.com/canada-ranks-no-1-in-global-quality-of-life-list/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:00:55 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1326 If you are considering Immigration to Canada, the following article (which appears on the website of CTV News (ctvnews.ca) on January 23, 2019 and which has been reproduced in its entirety) offers some compelling reasons to make Canada your country of intended destination. *** Thanks to its prestige, economic stability and quality of life, Switzerland […]

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]]> Multi-Year Immigration Levels Plan Announced https://www.akcanada.com/multi-year-immigration-levels-plan-announced/ Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:59:02 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1293 On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC), announced the Government of Canada’s multi-year Immigration levels plan that will grow the number of permanent residents Canada welcomes annually. Beginning with 310,000 new permanent residents in 2018, the plan will grow to 330,000 in 2019 and 340,000 in […]

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]]> Canada Immigration – New Definition of Age of Dependants Now in Force https://www.akcanada.com/new-definition-of-age-of-dependants-now-in-force/ Thu, 02 Nov 2017 08:44:26 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1286 On Friday, October 27, 2017, the Government of Canada has changed the definition of the age of dependants from “under 19” to “under 22,” as it had promised to do. This change applies to all new applications received by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on or after October 24, 2017. IRCC also announced that […]

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]]> Permanent Resident Card Has New Look, Enhanced Security Features https://www.akcanada.com/permanent-resident-card-has-new-look-enhanced-security-features/ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:51:36 +0000 http://akcanada.wordpress.com/?p=55 Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced the implementation of the redesigned permanent resident card, which will be in circulation beginning today. “Thanks to state-of-the-art security features, this redesigned permanent resident card will help prevent the fraudulent use of Canada’s immigration documents and protect the integrity of our immigration system,” said Minister Kenney. “The […]

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