Mar 11, 2025
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This is a blatant attack on freedom-of-speech rights.
Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency pr
Processing times for Canadian immigration applications have reached unprecedented lengths — up to 50 years under some permanent residency programs — stunning applicants and lawyers who say the system has become unviable.
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Families who recently applied for permanent residence (PR) under Canada’s humanitarian and compassionate stream face waits of 12 to 600 months, according to the new immigration minister’s May 2025 "transition binder".
Other economic immigration programs list similar waits:
Up to 108 months (nine years) for the caregivers pathway.
Up to 228 months (19 years) for the agri-food stream.
Up to 420 months (35 years) for entrepreneurs under the startup visa stream.
Lawyers say these skyrocketing processing times published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) are unheard of, and some fear mass cancellation of applications if the Liberal government passes its strong borders bills, which would grant the minister sweeping new powers.
Asked if the government plans to do this, a spokesperson for Minister Lena Metlege Diab told CBC: "We can’t presuppose any future policy decisions."
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It's almost like the Liberal Party's approach to immigration policy has the same xenophobic roots and harmful outcomes as the Conservatives' 🤔
When Ilya got his agent to approach Ottawa, he likely asked them to do a Labour Market Impact Assessment in order for him to get Canadian permanent residency. Which puts you on a path to Canadian citizenship after several years. A temporary foreign worker has no path to citizenship.
Ilya is a generational talent. Ottawa could write in the LMIA that no Canadian hockey player available at the time was as good as him. And IRCC (Inmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) would likely agree. The other best player in Ilya’s position is Shane. Who already has a contract with Montreal and thus isn’t available to Ottawa.
LMIAs with permanent residency (thus, leading to citizenship) are almost as rare as unicorns, but they do happen occasionally. My dentist is an American whose family moved to Vancouver during the first Trump administration. Her husband was a STEM professor at an Ivy League university, doing cutting edge research.
The University of British Columbia (UBC) argued in their LMIA for him that this American researcher was someone whose job simply couldn’t be filled by a Canadian. His job was simply too specialized. And it worked. the paperwork took a long time to come through, but she, her husband, and their kids were given permanent residency so he could take the UBC job. And I believe they are now citizens.
Whatever contract Ilya negotiated with Ottawa would’ve been contingent on him becoming a permanent resident, not just a temporary foreign worker with no path to citizenship. Ottawa would have lobbied IRCC like hell to get him PR.
Anyway, IRCC doesn’t advertise that you can get PR through an LMIA. There are far too many corrupt immigration consultants out there who convince desperate would-be immigrants out there to bribe them for it. And of course, the paperwork they get is fake. Because people don’t understand that getting an LMIA approved with PR is only for very exceptional cases. Usually an LMIA is only for a temporary foreign worker permit. And that has no path to citizenship.
But the real thing does happen from time to time. IRCC would approve permanent residency for a world-class hockey player willing to move to a thoroughly mediocre Canadian team. There would be paperwork and it would take a while, but they’d do it.
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The way Canadian immigration law works, you can’t move to Canada for a specific job and get permanent residency that way. You get PR, you move to Canada, and then you look for a job here. The LMIA with PR is very rare and only for special cases. When they basically need to lure someone to Canada.
New 10 year rule could see some migrants get 'special treatment'
Certain migrants could get "special treatment" under new Home Office rules. The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, suggested that arrangements may be put in place for people from some groups as the Government aims to make it harder to stay in the Britain. Spouses and older people could be among those immune from a to double the time individuals need to live in the UK for in order to be granted permanent residency. Ms Mahmood said the Government could also "look at household income or individual income" and how children would be impacted.
also, MY PERMANANT RESIDENCY GOT APPROVED IM CANADIAN NOW (kinda) WE BALLLL
Legal resident Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following his activism for Gaza at Columbia U
Gideon Taaffe and Jack Winstanley at MMFA:
Legal resident Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following his activism for Gaza at Columbia University, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared a story about him online, writing, “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported." Such arrests are a policy goal of the Heritage Foundation and Khalil's arrest reportedly followed some online targeting of him. Right-wing media have responded to his arrest by calling for more arrests and deportations, arguing that the administration needs to “send a message” and that students are “going to lose."
ICE arrested Khalil after the Trump administration cracked down on college protests
Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE following his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University. According to his attorney, ICE agents initially claimed his student visa had been revoked, but when Khalil noted he is a lawful permanent resident with a green card, they detained him anyway. Khalil’s wife, who is a U.S. citizen, was also threatened with arrest. [The Washington Post, 3/9/25]
The Department of Homeland Security told CBS News that Khalil’s arrest was “in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti-Semitism” and claimed he “led activities aligned to Hamas,” but it did not provide any charges or alleged crimes. The executive order called for the deportation of “pro-jihadist” protesters. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on social media that the U.S. will revoke green cards of anyone who “supports Hamas.” According to legal scholar Steve Vladeck, “To sustain the lawfulness of Khalil’s arrest, the government has to identify the specific basis on which it believes that Khalil is subject to removal.” [CBS, 3/10/25; NPR, 1/30/25; The Daily Beast, 3/10/25; One First with Steve Vladeck, 3/10/25]
Khalil is being held in a Louisiana detention center, and his lawyers have objected to that location. Khalil’s lawyer called his move to Louisiana “a blatantly improper but familiar tactic designed to frustrate the New York federal court's jurisdiction, and isolate Mahmoud far from his lawyers, his home, and his local community of support.” A U.S. district judge ordered Khalil to remain in the U.S. “to preserve the court's jurisdiction” and is scheduled to oversee a detention hearing on Wednesday. [NBC News, 3/10/25]
Deporting activists such as Khalil is a policy goal of the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” and reportedly followed online targeting
Project Esther, a Heritage Foundation-backed plan to “combat antisemitism,” calls for “Foreign HSO [Hamas Support Organizations] leaders and members” to be “deported from the U.S.” The Jewish magazine Forward notes, “The plan’s first targets are pro-Palestinian organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine, American Muslims for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.” The Heritage plan also suggests that these organizations are “dedicated to the destruction of capitalism and democracy” and benefit “from the support and training of America’s overseas enemies.” According to the plan, such organizations have “infiltrated their ideology into the U.S. education system across all levels. ... The U.S. education system fosters antisemitism under the guise of ‘pro-Palestinian,’ anti-Israel, anti-Zionist narratives across universities, high schools, and elementary schools, often under the umbrella or within the rubric of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and similar Marxist ideology.” [Heritage Foundation, 10/7/24; Forward, 11/19/24]
Khalil’s detention and his arrest was reportedly preceded by a series of online posts that identified him as a protester and “SUSPECTED FOREIGN NATIONAL.” At least one of the posts tagged Rubio and asked him to “revoke Mahmoud Khalil’s visa.” [Drop Site News, 3/9/25]
Pro-Israel Apartheid simps in the right-wing media cheer the lawless and illegal detention of Mahmoud Khalil by Tyrant 47’s Administration on bogus “led activities aligned to Hamas” claims.
She was nearly ripped from her three-year-old daughter, but in a sudden reversal, a Toronto personal support worker who faced deportation de
"She was nearly ripped from her three-year-old daughter, but in a sudden reversal, a Toronto personal support worker who faced deportation despite having worked on the front lines during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic can now stay in Canada permanently.
After going public with her story, Fatumah Najjuma has won her fight for permanent residence.
On Friday, she received word that her permanent resident application on humanitarian grounds was granted.
"This means a lot to me because I have been given a chance to live, stay and raise my baby girl," Najjuma told CBC Toronto, thanking her lawyer, advocates, her friends and the many strangers who supported her.
"As I am her only living parent, she is going to grow up a happy child because her mother is present in all her life."
Najjuma, 29, had been facing deportation to Uganda — a country she says she fled for her life after being disowned by her family and for her religious and social affiliations.
Her deportation date had been set for Jan. 7. But after garnering tens of thousands of signatures in an online petition, a campaign by advocacy groups and telling her story to CBC News, her removal was delayed in late December.
Now, her fight is over. But she says she remains concerned about the countless others who find themselves also facing deportation despite Canada's commitment to work towards granting status to undocumented workers.
"I shouldn't have to fight for basic rights," she said. "Everyone deserves status so we can live a good life. I encourage all migrants to speak up and raise their strong voice.""
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