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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
De plus en plus d’immigrants français choisissent la région Chaleur, au Nouveau-Brunswick comme nouvelle terre d’accueil, et des intervenants redoublent d’efforts pour en attirer davantage. « On est tombé amoureux de cette région, de la place », indique Jean-Charles Joseph, un immigrant français qui s’est établi à Bathurst avec sa famille il y a un peu plus de deux mois.
Elias Sabee applied for the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program in 2008. He invested $120,000 in cash into the province’s economy through Desjardins Trust Inc., an intermediary, and took out a loan to finance the balance of the required $400,000 total to meet the threshold of the immigration program in exchange for permanent residency. Then the waiting began. That ended last November when Sabee was killed in a bombing. Now his wife and three grown children — all refugees in limbo across France and Germany — are fighting to get a refund on his investment in Canada after immigration officials rejected the family’s application because the principal applicant is no longer alive.
A Newfoundland woman says one wrong checked box in a stack of paperwork wiped out thousands of dollars and years of effort to bring her family to Canada from India. Leena Raju says a five-year application ban for an honest mistake has made her feel like a criminal. Experts say her case is all too common. Immigration lawyer Evelyn Ackah and other lawyers who guide clients through a bureaucratic maze say it’s time for change.
Un jeune réfugié guinéen bisexuel arrivé à Montréal il y a un an pour demander l’asile sera déporté ce vendredi après-midi. Le Canada met ainsi sa vie en réel danger, selon son avocat, alors que l’homosexualité est considérée criminelle dans ce pays de l’Afrique de l’ouest.
An internal government analysis of U.S. immigration policy suggests significant implications for Canada if a program offering protections for people who came to the U.S. illegally as children is allowed to end. Large numbers of what are known as the “Dreamers” don’t have strong ties to their birth countries, given they’ve lived in the U.S. for years, so Canada could be a draw, the analysis said. Which isn’t entirely a negative proposition, the analysis suggested. Many recipients work in white-collar jobs and since the program only applies to those who at least have finished high school, they are more educated than other unauthorized migrant populations.
Ce ne sont pas 330, mais plutôt 2 900 permis de travail qui ont été délivrés aux demandeurs d’asile qui sont arrivés au Québec depuis juillet dernier, contrairement aux informations fournies précédemment par Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada.