Providing Your Social Insurance Number for Citizenship
Introduction Thanks to the new changes to the Citizenship Act, all of which are now officially in-force as of June 11, 2015, there are also new Citizenship Forms and Regulations. Part of the changes to the Forms and Regulations are new requirements for Applicants to provide their Social Insurance Number. Unlike in the context of permanent residents, […]
Forgetting A Period of Employment = Misrepresentation? Quite Probably.
Introduction Under Canada’s new Express Entry system for Economic Immigration, Applicants are required at the profile creation stage to list their entire employment history for the past 10 years or since the age of 18 in an electronic form. Particularly for individuals who work contract on short term duration work, this record could be very […]
The New Direction of Misrepresentation in Canadian Immigration: Criminal Inadmissibility
Introduction As I have covered in previous blogs on the topic, I believe Misrepresentation under s.40 of the Immigration and Refugee Protections Act [IRPA] is the new tool that CIC will be increasingly using to defend program integrity. The penalty for misrepresentation used to be only two years, only a year greater than the penalty resulting […]
