Effect of unemployment

Q. I became unemployed soon after submitting my skilled worker application. How is this going to effect my PR application. Anybody with same situation? Answer: Your application is based on the qualifications that you possessed at the time of the submission of your application. Although unemployment would not necessarily have a negative impact on an […]

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News Briefs – Decrease in refugee applications

The number of foreigners seeking refugee status in Canada dropped so sharply in early 2004 that the year-end total could prove to be the lowest in two decades, internal statistics show. During the first five months of the year, 9,956 people sought asylum inside Canada — a 35% drop from the 15,379 newcomers who filed […]

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Program helps skilled workers gain valuable experience

Don Drummond, chief economist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, thought “it was the right thing to do” but he was unsure about the advantages when he agreed to give a four-month internship to a recent immigrant to Toronto who had a degree from a Chinese university. But he had no idea how impressed he would be by […]

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