September 20, 2018 - Canada Visa Application Centres in Asia, Asia Pacific and the Americas will begin charging a fee for candidates to submit their applications from November 2, 2018.

April 6, 2021 - Ottawa is promising to give immigrants partial refunds starting this month for citizenship and International Experience Canada program fees – and a few other fees related to passports and travel documents – when they get sub-par service.

June 28, 2017 – Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 16th round of invitations under Express Entry in 2017 inviting 3409 applicants for permanent residence, under all programs. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score was 449, a significant increase from previous draws.

February 5, 2019 - In the latest immigration.ca Livestream, Canada Immigration Lawyer Colin Singer discusses record Express Entry Immigration draws in January, the new Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot and what is going on with Quebec Immigration Programs in 2019.

February 13, 2020 - Federal Skilled Worker Program candidates accounted for more than half of the nearly 110,000 permanent resident admissions through Express Entry in 2019, new figures show.

April 5, 2017 - Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 8th round of invitations under Express Entry in 2017 and 58th overall, featuring a record lowest score of 431 and inviting 3753 applicants for permanent residence, under all programs.

July 10, 2017 – The latest British Columbia immigration draw saw 15 candidates invited to apply under the province's Entrepreneur Immigration stream.

May 15, 2020 - Ontario Immigration in Canada's most populous province is still answering inquiries, processing applications and issuing nominations through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP), including the Express Entry-linked and Entrepreneur streams.

2019-09-30 – The third quarter of 2019 was the sixth most-prolific on record for the Canada Express Entry immigration system.

October 2nd 2015 - Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 18th round of invitations under Express Entry, inviting 1530 applicants for permanent residence. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking Score (CRS) was 450, repeating the score from the previous draw.

May 5, 2020 - The Trump Administration has recently suspended most immigration programs to the USA while Canada continues to accept new applications under its most popular programs with measures to safeguard against covonavirus.

Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 16th draw inviting 1517 applicants for permanent residence with the lowest Comprehensive Ranking Score (CRS) of 459.

April 19, 2017 – Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 10th round of invitations under Express Entry in 2017 inviting 3665 applicants for permanent residence, under all programs. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score was 415, an all-time record low CRS score for Express Entry.

March 19, 2018 - Ontario immigration has conducted a new draw for the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program's Entrepreneur Stream issuing 10 Invitations to Apply with a minimum score of 135.

January 19, 2018 - The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program has received an increased federal government allocation for 2018 of 6,600 nominations, while also announcing it is accepting new applications for the majority of its immigration streams.

The Quebec government has published a new Areas of Training List, an important component in the assessment of candidates under the Quebec Skilled Workers program.

The Quebec government has announced plans to receive online applications under its skilled worker program, effective December 31, 2015. The move toward an online application system will require all applicants for a Quebec Selection Certificate under the skilled worker program, to complete and present their application via the internet. The period of reception for new applications under the Quebec skilled worker program will likely be in early 2016, but has not yet been formally announced.

October 7, 2019 - Quebec has announced the results of a new Expression of Interest draw that saw 32 invitations issued.

April 13, 2017 – Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 9th round of invitations under Express Entry in 2017 inviting a record 3,923 applicants for permanent residence, under all programs. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score was 423, an all-time record low CRS score for Express Entry.

May 31, 2017 – Canadian Immigration authorities conducted the 15th round of invitations under Express Entry in 2017 inviting 3,877 applicants for permanent residence, under all programs. The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score was 413, the lowest-ever for an all-program draw.