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Starting Oct. 11, permanent residents will be eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship if they have lived in the country for three out of the previous five years. Also, applicants over 55 years of age are once again exempt from the language and knowledge tests for citizenship under the amended citizenship regulations to be announced by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen on Wednesday.

https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/10/04/new-language-and-residency-rules-for-canadian-citizenship-kick-in-next-week.html

A gay man in Afghanistan who fears for his life has waited a year and a half to come to B.C. as a refugee, and he worries continued delay could lead to his death. The federal NDP is calling on the government to intervene directly to get him out of a dangerous situation. According to the UN Refugee Agency, Afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places in the world to identify as LGBT. Same-sex sexual acts are prohibited and punishable with imprisonment, or under Shariah law, the death penalty.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gay-afghan-refugee-claim-1.4317217

À la place, Ottawa propose d’éliminer les intérêts pour tous les nouveaux prêts et d’offrir aux nouveaux emprunteurs une plus longue période pour rembourser. Les libéraux fédéraux révisent finalement un programme qui offre des prêts aux réfugiés afin de couvrir leurs coûts […].

http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/10/02/le-gouvernement-trudeau-revise-son-programme-controverse-de-pret-aux-refugies_a_23230002/

Deux hommes originaires du Guatemala ont été arrêtés le 18 septembre dernier puis détenus au Centre de surveillance de l’immigration à Laval. Placido Morales Reyes et David Rojas Morales (sans lien familial) travaillaient pour l’agence Les Progrès Inc. […].

http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/509457/une-agence-sous-enquete-et-poursuivie-par-17-travailleurs-toujours-en-activite

About half of the asylum claims heard so far from those who’ve crossed the Canada-U.S. border since July have been rejected, the Immigration and Refugee Board said Tuesday. Shereen Benzvy Miller, the head of the IRB’s refugee protection division, told a House of Commons immigration committee hearing that 240 have already been finalized, and a further 373 had been scheduled as of earlier this week, with the rate of rejection around 50 per cent.

http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/about-half-of-summers-border-crosser-asylum-cases-heard-so-far-rejected-irb

The federal government has already upped Canada’s immigrant intake to 300,000 annually, but could it – and should it – go even further? That’s the question at the heart of a new report by the Conference Board of Canada, which forecasts the potential impacts of different immigration levels on the overall economy, income levels and public spending.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3782202/450000-immigration-target-canada/