Single travel document to Canada, cancellation of processing fees and other news of the week
To expedite a visa to Canada now you can just print a letter from the government, in one of the Canadian regions have abolished fees for the processing of immigration applications, new measures to support Ukrainians and other major news for the past week.
Help for Ukrainians
Canada's visa centers in Europe are overloaded. Because of this, Ukrainians who have applied for a temporary relocation program are offered to obtain a one-entry electronic visa to avoid waiting up to six weeks for its insertion in the passport. You just have to show a printed letter from the Department of Immigration to get into Canada. Entry is one-time and time-limited. If you want a regular physical visa in your passport, however, you will have to wait.
Canadian provinces continue to report new measures to help Ukrainians. In Manitoba, they are opening a reception center near the international airport. They will be able to live there for a while and they will be fed. British Columbia announced grants for higher education for Ukrainians and promised free housing on campuses.
Provincial immigration news
Ontario immigration officials will begin publishing "blacklists" of unscrupulous employers, immigration consultants and immigrant workers as of May 3. We remind you to provide complete and truthful information when you apply for immigration, and to report immediately if anything has changed. So that the consultant does not make mistakes for your money and deprive you of your chance to move to Canada, check their license beforehand. Or you can trust us, my wife Ivanka works as a Canadian licensed immigration consultant.
The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has reversed its fee for processing immigration applications. The province wants to become a "national leader in receiving and retaining immigrants. Its plan for 2026 is to bring in 5,100 new permanent residents each year. That's a big ambition, but the number of 5,000 and a whopping 5,000 doesn't sound like a big deal to me.
The province of New Brunswick has a different approach. In the fall of 2020, the local Department of Immigration and the Department of Health launched a pilot project to attract foreign nurses. They held special online job fairs for them. Those who wanted to work in New Brunswick were supported free of charge at all stages of immigration: helping them apply, confirm their degrees and certifications, and find jobs and housing. Eighty nurses have already landed jobs, with another 150 in the process.
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