By Gerald V. Paul Members of the Caribbean community holding dual citizenship will have to show a valid Canadian passport to enter Canada y when travelling by air, come late September. “A valid Canadian passport is the only reliable and universally accepted travel document that provides proof that you are a citizen and have the […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Guyana will, on humanitarian grounds, assist Venezuelans and persons of other nationalities should they find themselves fleeing from their countries as a result of economic turmoil or political persecution. However, President David Granger said, assistance will not be done haphazardly. He said: “We are not going to simply open our borders to people […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon The decision of a citizenship judge that a Trinidadian woman met the residency requirements for Canadian citizenship be set aside and her application for citizenship be re-determined by another judge. For the purposes of this article, I will refer to the woman as Pat who became a permanent resident of Canada on […]
By Gerald V. Paul Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson , currently on a North American tour, met on Monday with farm workers in Mt. Pleasant, Ontario whose living quarters were gutted in a fire on July 28 last. Thirty-three workers from Jamaica assigned to Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation, […]
This week and over the next few weeks, I will address a number of question which the Canadian Federal government has asked in a recent publication dealing with improvements to the current immigration system. Clearly, to obtain permanent residence in Canada is not a walk in the park. Let us look, first of all, at […]
By Chris Ramsaroop This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) which brings migrant labourers from the Caribbean and Mexico to Canada every year. Today there are about 34,000 migrants labourers in the program in Canada . They are employed in every province except Newfoundland. Migrant workers are hired for […]
A family of four Armenian Christians from Lebanon who sought refugee protection in Canada, was recently successful in getting the Federal Court of Canada to set aside a negative decision made against them by the Refugee Appeal Decision(RAD). The Court ordered that their matter be reviewed by a different panel of the RAD. The family […]
The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act sets out specifically how a family member could be excluded from sponsorship under the Family Class Sponsorship. A large number of persons who believe they can be sponsored to Canada by their spouse or parents are caught by a particular section 117(9) (d). This states, if the sponsor previously […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon As a last resort to remain in Canada permanently, a very large number of persons who are reporting to Canada Border Services Agency have filed applications under humanitarian and compassionate grounds to remain in Canada. They are hoping a favorable decision will be rendered based on their individual circumstances before they are […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon A recent bulletin on the Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada website contains policy and procedures with respect to charitable and religious work in Canada. There is a difference between a charitable worker who needs a work permit and a volunteer worker who is work-permit exempt. The difference is based on the definition of […]
