Under the new regulation, professionals seeking to work temporarily in Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) can now receive work permits for up to three years and may be renewed thereafter. Earlier. Earlier NAFTA workers were required to renew their work permit every 12 months. By easing the administrative requirements..

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.

The Minister of citizenship and Immigration Canada, Monte Solberg, gave his Annual report for the year 2006 to Parliament on Immigration with a definitive reply to the critics of Conservatives. His report outlines Canada's initiatives over the past year to attract and welcome newcomers, to provide a projection of number of people expected to become permanent residents in the year 2007.

Most recent immigrants to Canada are settling in the 5 largest Canadian cities. Approximately 80 per cent of Canadian immigrants have chosen to settle in Canada's five largest urban centres including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa. The census metropolitan area of Toronto attracted the largest share of new immigrants, nearly 3 times greater than its share of the total population in Canada.

There is cause for celebration in Canada today, as a survey of 16 countries shows Canadians to be leading the back in health, happiness and quality of life. According to the survey, this news should be quite well received, as over 90% of working Canadians described themselves as happy, with the figure jumping to 95% for retirees..

Buoyed by strong economic growth, the number of immigrants settling in the province of Manitoba soared to a 50 year high. Government officials recently announced that a total of 9989 new immigrants arrived in the province in 2006, just shy of Manitoba?s target of 10000..

Your Personal and Financial Documents are very important when you submit your
application for the Canadian Permanent Residence visa.I recommend sending with
your application NOTARIZED copies of all the documents that I will describe the
following weeks of the program, except for the following

Diane Finley, The Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration announced $12.5 million in funding for the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, to be distributed among seven partner agencies including school boards, colleges, libraries and Immigrant Centers in Hamilton, Ontario. The funds will be used by the agencies to expand their English-language training services for new immigrants in Hamilton, Ontario.

Canada's new government has announced support and funding for a project organized by Carrefour d'immigration rurale (CIR) Evangeline in Wellington, P.E.I. (Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island), to assist in attracting immigrants to this rural Francophone community. A funding of $49,150 provided by Canada's New Government through the Official Languages Action Plan, is being used for a number of activities including community and school awareness programs..