Effective today, January 4th at 8:00AM EST, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) re-opened the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP). CIC will be accepting 5,000 new and completed applications for 2016. Click here…
Continue ReadingCIC has announced that they will start taking new applications to sponsor parents and grandparents on 4 January 2016 at 8:00 am Eastern Standard Time. There will be a cap on the…
Continue ReadingMario Bellissimo was recently interviewed in an article appearing in the Toronto Law Journal entitled Compromising Change; a Canadian Immigration Retrospective. The objective of the article was to discuss the impact of recent changes to Canadian immigration policy and to get a sense of the direction Canadian immigration is heading.
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Earlier this year the government opened the Parent and Grandparent Program to accept 5,000 new applications, as of today they have now received 5,000 complete applications. Citizenship and Immigration Canada expects to…
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada reopened the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship program on January 2, and will be accepting 5,000 applications in 2014. The government introduced a temporary pause in 2011 on new…
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The purpose of this Operational Bulletin is to inform officers of the new regulatory requirements for sponsors in the family class, primarily pertaining to persons who sponsor parents and grandparents, that have come…
Continue ReadingIs your family new to Canada? One of our favourite ways to spend time with family is to attend a hockey game together while also partaking in a classic Canadian winter activity. Bellissimo Law Group would like to share this experience with a newcomer to Canada by treating him or her and a family member to their first Toronto Maple Leafs game!
Continue ReadingPosted by: Alexa Woods Since the launch of the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa program in December 2011, more than 20,000 visas have been issued. With an 85% approval rate, over 1,000…
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