In Season 1 Episode 15 launched on Might 11, 2016, I invited Canadian immigration lawyer Chris Veeman to affix me to speak concerning the “then” lately introduced modifications to the Canadian citizenship course of. Nicely it’s been over one full 12 months later and we’re nonetheless ready….
On this Episode I invited Chris again for an encore efficiency to convey us in control on the place we’re at proper now and the way for much longer we’re going to have to attend to see these vital modifications turn out to be regulation.
Chris Veeman is a Member of the Legislation Society of Saskatchewan. He practices immigration regulation in Saskatoon inside his personal regulation workplace, Veeman Legislation.
He is a graduate of the College of Toronto School of Legislation (2003). A former Federal Court docket of Canada regulation clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Sandra J. Simpson, he has been training immigration regulation since 2003. He has been primarily based in Saskatoon (his residence city) since 2004.
He has been invited to seem as a witness on citizenship issues earlier than the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on a number of events (2008, 2014, 2016), and has represented purchasers in quite a few high-profile refugee, immigration and citizenship instances.
He served as an Govt Member of the CBA’s Nationwide Immigration Legislation part (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) and authors the Chapter on the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program in Carswell’s textual content A Sensible Information to Provincial Nominee Packages in Canadian Immigration Legislation.
On this episode Chris and I focus on the next modifications that can be coming (hopefully earlier than Canada Day, July 1, 2017) to Canada’s Citizenship course of :
- revocation of citizenship;
- reversal of the previous Conservative authorities’s modifications to residency necessities;
- how time spent as a brief resident can be counted in direction of eligibility for citizenship;
- age limits for language testing.
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