If you are planning to move to Canada, it is advisable to hire an Immigration Consultant (also referred as an Immigration Practitioner). There are definite advantages to hire an Immigration Consultant. An immigration consultant can save your time and headache by filling out your applications and helping you to gather supporting documents be on top of immigration regulation changes that might affect your application selection, process and time-line. 

A Permanent Resident in Canada (formally knows as a Landed Immigrant in Canada) is someone who is not a Canadian citizen and has been granted permission to live and work in Canada without any time limit on his or her stay. A permanent resident must live in Canada for two years out of every five or risk losing that status. In this article we also outline the benefits and requirements of a Permanent Residents in Canada.

Toronto, July 20, 2011 ? Improvements to make it easier to visit Canada are coming soon, announced the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. A new ten-year multiple-entry visa will make applying more efficient for applicants and better use government resources.

To protect the health and safety of Canadians, as well as reduce and prevent excessive demand on Canada's health and social services system permanent or temporary resident applicants may be required to undergo a medical exam. Your dependants must also pass a medical examination if they are coming with you or even if they are not coming with you. Applications for permanent residence will not be accepted if that person's health..

The point system is one of the selection tools used to determine if you are eligible to apply for Immigration to Canada. It is assessed on six main factors including age, education, work experience, language ability and adaptability. The maximum possible score is 100. If your score is the same or higher than the pass mark, then you may qualify to immigrate to Canada in the selected category.

According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada's 2009 Annual Report, Canada is actually maintaining its immigration levels to meet the country's medium- to long-term economic needs. While other countries have cut back immigration levels as a short-term response to the global economic downturn, Canada is actually maintaining its immigration levels.

Are you considering moving to Canada or are already in the process of moving to Canada? Do you need advice with a personal touch or want to share your immigration experience? LoonLounge.com might be the right website to visit. LoonLounge.com is a place to meet people and learn about life in Canada and the Canadian immigration experience.

Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, joined provincial, municipal and community partners to launch the "Tool Box of Ideas for Smaller Centres," a resource aimed at attracting & supporting immigrants to smaller communities in Canada. The Tool Box was funded through a contribution agreement from Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The objective of this Tool Box is to help smaller communities across the Canada to benefit from immigration and develop their own immigration strategies.

In response to the increasing immigration flow to Canada's northern territories this, there have been new immigrant settlement service agencies setting up in these Canadian northern territories to help newcomers with the transition into Canadian society and the Canadian workforce. It is part of the Centre for Northern Families and works with immigrants to help them with language training, immigration and citizenship issues, and settlement issues.

In 2007 Canada accepted the highest number of immigrants (temporary and permanent residents) to date. This is based on the preliminary data released by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on March 14th 2007. In 2007, Canada admitted 429,649 permanent residents, temporary foreign workers and foreign students. This number is more than 60,000 higher than it was just four years ago.