Canadaâs Policy on Immigrants Brings Backlog
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Canadaâs merit-based immigration system has helped it compete for highly educated workers but has created waits of four years or more for immigrants.
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TORONTO -- Habibullah Abdul Ghafar is drinking black tea and resting after arriving in Canada from Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian country where he and his family were stranded as refugees. Inside his one-bedroom apartment on the east side of Toronto, the furniture is sparse. A sofa, chair and kitchen table the Canadian government gave them line the room.
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Over the last year, illegal immigrants and their families have retreated from community life under the pressure of tougher federal and local enforcement.
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Immigration officials have a message for employers hoping to hire foreign workers through the H1-B visa program for the fiscal year that began Friday: It's too late.
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TORONTO (CP) - Last-minute asylum-seekers in the United States flocked to the Canadian border Tuesday as the deadline for stringent changes to refugee applications drew near.
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France set tough new quotas for the number of illegal immigrants authorities should arrest and expel each month, the new immigration minister said Monday.
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The measure would have required illegal immigrants to return home before obtaining temporary legal status.
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Federal officials say they are closing in on President Bush's goal of processing immigration applications faster, but that is largely because they no longer count many stalled applications as part of the backlog.
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Canada and the United States have announced plans to decrease border wait times at the Detroit-Windsor, Ont. border crossings. Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan and US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
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Last June, U.S. immigration officials were presented a plan that supporters said could help slash waiting times for green cards from nearly three years to three months and save 1 million applicants more than a third of the 45 hours they could expect to spend in government lines.
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After decades of being waved through, Americans returning from Mexico are increasingly being checked like foreigners, extending wait times by hours.
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For some thinkers, Canada is in decline, or at the very least, has fallen short of their aspirations.
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Getting details about immigrants who have died in administrative custody is a difficult undertaking.
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U.S. border guards at busy northern crossings will start fingerprinting foreign visitors entering from Canada by the end of the year, a top official in the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada is becoming ever more closed to refugees desperate to escape abuse and chaos in their homelands, advocates say.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country has been delayed.
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Vancouver, British Columbia office will house international workers caught in immigration tangle.