Find out if you can enter Canada COVID-19 – Global travel advisory Effective December 15, 2021: Avoid non-essential travel outside Canada, regardless of your vaccination status. Omicron travel health notice Exemptions ending for certain travellers entering Canada Effective January 15, 2022, 00:01 (EST), some foreign national travellers who were previously allowed to enter Canada without…
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Open work permit – General processing and issuance – International Mobility Program An open work permit can only be issued to a foreign national under one of the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) exemptions. The instructions on this page should be reviewed in conjunction with the following information: Conditions and validity period on work permits Open…
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Program delivery update: Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP) – Transition January 12, 2022 Information has been added to the AIPP “Examination before granting permanent residence†PDI to announce that the AIPP closed on December 31, 2021 along with pilot bilateral agreements. However, the Ministerial Instructions (MIs) for the pilot expire on March 5, 2022 which…
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Program delivery update: COVID-19 – Temporary workers January 14, 2022 The COVID-19 work permit program delivery page has been divided into smaller sections to assist officers in finding information faster. Updates have also been done to remove biometric, family reunification and general traveller instructions. These sections now hyperlink to one instruction to avoid duplication and…
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