If you’re a everlasting resident of Canada contemplating on making use of for Canadian citizenship, you’re doubtless asking your self….”why is it so dang arduous to qualify?” Effectively… this Podcast goes to make your day just a bit brighter! Chris Veeman, a properly revered immigration lawyer based mostly out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, shares some nice perception on Invoice C-6 and the Liberal Authorities’s proposed adjustments to Canada’s Citizenship Act and the way these adjustments are going to make a variety of worldwide college students, international staff, and everlasting residents an entire lot happier about their probabilities of changing into Canadian residents.
It was a pleasure to have Chris Veeman on the Podcast as a visitor. Having had the chance to seem as a witness earlier than the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration together with latest adjustments to our Citizenship legal guidelines, Chris was the best option to demystify what the Liberals have in retailer for us with Invoice C-6: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to a different Act.
If you’re even contemplating making use of for Canadian citizenship, it’s possible you’ll simply need to maintain off till you have got had an opportunity to listen to what Chris has to say about the way forward for Canadian citizenship……this can be a excellent news story.
UPDATE: It appears to be like just like the Liberals are hoping to get Invoice C-6 handed for a Canada Day celebration of Citizenship on July 1, 2016. Nevertheless, it has to get via the Conservative dominated Senate first. See the next Hill Occasions article for extra data: http://goo.gl/CW9wKu.
Highlights of what the Liberals are proposing to alter with Invoice C-6:
- Repealing provisions within the Citizenship Act that enable for citizenship to be revoked on grounds that solely apply to twin nationals.
- Eliminating the requirement that citizenship candidates should intend to proceed to reside in Canada.
- Facilitating the pathway to citizenship for short-term residents by once more permitting the time spent in Canada previous to changing into a everlasting resident to depend in direction of the bodily presence requirement for citizenship.
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