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Credit to Author: Asheesh Moosapeta| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:00:18 +0000

Residence and citizenship advisory firm Henley and Partners has released their ranking of world passports in 2024— incorporating data from the International Air Transport Authority. The firm ranked the Canadian passport as the seventh most powerful in the world this year, based on a number of criteria, including the number of visa-free travel options it […]

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Changes to Canada’s citizenship laws have been delayed

June 27, 2024 admin Canada, Canadian citizenship, canadian passport, citizenship certificate, first generation limit, immigration refugees and citizenship canada, IRCC, proof of

Credit to Author: Asheesh Moosapeta| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:00:48 +0000

Anticipated changes to Canada’s first-generation limit (FGL) to passing on Canadian citizenship have been delayed till at least August. The FGL rule dictates that if a Canadian citizen who was born out-of-country, subsequently has a child outside of Canada, this child will not automatically receive citizenship from their parents. Previously, Ontario’s Supreme Court ordered that […]

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Canada processing proof of citizenship applications faster than pre-pandemic standards

May 4, 2024 admin Canadian citizenship, canadian dual citizenship, canadian passport, citizenship, immigration refugees and citizenship canada, IRCC, proof of citizenship

Credit to Author: Asheesh Moosapeta| Date: Sat, 04 May 2024 13:00:21 +0000

Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is now processing proof of citizenship applications in as little as three months, with application wait-times now reduced significantly from even pre-pandemic standards. Now some foreign nationals—who have at least one biological or legal parent who is a Canadian citizen—can expect to receive a decision on their citizenship application […]

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Canadian passport processing back to pre-pandemic service standards

June 30, 2023 admin Canada, canada citizenship, canadian passport, citizenship, ESDC, immigration, IRCC, online passport renewals, Passport, passport renewals, travel

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:08:57 +0000

Service Canada has reported that passport delivery has returned to pre-pandemic processing times. A recent news release by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) says that there are no more passport application backlogs, and that Service Canada is exceeding the delivery standard for most applications. This is despite a brief disruption caused by the Public […]

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Canadians will soon be able to renew their passports online

May 30, 2023 admin Canada, canada citizenship, canadian passport, immigration, IRCC, online passport renewals, Passport, passport renewals, travel

Credit to Author: Vimal Sivakumar| Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 12:00:17 +0000

After unveiling a new design for its passports on May 10, the Government of Canada has now announced that Canadians eligible for simplified passport renewals will be able to complete this process online starting in the fall. In an announcement from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) the same day as the passport redesign reveal, […]

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Immigration minister reveals Canada’s newly redesigned passports

May 11, 2023 admin Canada, Canadian citizenship, canadian passport, general, immigration, IRCC, Passport

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 13:56:50 +0000

Today, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser and Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Karina Gould, have unveiled the new Canadian passports. Discover if You Are Eligible for Canadian Immigration The passport redesign has been in progress since 2013. The government says it is a regular process to prevent counterfeiting and to integrate more modern security […]

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The benefits of getting a Canadian passport

September 7, 2022 admin canada citizen, Canadian citizenship, canadian passport, citizen, citizenship, immigration, Passport, settle

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:00:41 +0000

Canada has tied for eighth place alongside Australia, Greece, Malta and the Czech Republic according to the most recent Global Passport Ranking report by Henley & Partners, a global immigration consultancy. The firm ranks passports on the number of other countries a citizen may enter without having to obtain any kind of visa. The report […]

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Trump crackdown on birth tourism could mean new waves of passport babies in Canada

January 27, 2020 admin canadian passport, China, local news, richmond

Credit to Author: Randy Shore| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:06:08 +0000

Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, Germany and South Africa have all altered their citizenship laws to discourage birth tourism, but not Canada.