|
Home
| |
Updates / Changes:
This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first.
November, 2002:
Immigration and Visas International in Association with R. Hort Int'l ,
Introduces International Employment Services for USA and CANADA.
Immigration and Visas International (IVI) Now Accepts the following
Credit Cards:   
or 
November, 2001:
STATE DEPARTMENT TEMPORARILY PROHIBITS
THIRD COUNTRY PROCESSING IN MEXICO AND CANADA
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is reporting that it has been told by the State Department that the government is temporarily
suspending the online nonimmigrant visa appointment system and the 900 toll number appointments for ALL nationals of third countries seeking to
process visas at border posts. The policy went into effect around November
17, 2001.
Applicants are Warned that if they are not a national of the border country
where they seek to process a visa, they may end up stranded outside the US.
The State Department indicated that it was notifying people with appointments to postpone their trips.
The State Department is taking this step in the wake of its recent decision to hold visa petitions for applicants from a number of Arab and
Muslim countries for up to 20 days. However, this policy covers ALL applicants and not just Arab and Muslim applicants.
September 11, 2001:
New Investor Program offered by IVI and It's
Partners For USA:
New Investor Program offered by IVI, with Investment of as little as US$250,000
(net assets of the Immigrant should be equal to US$ 1 Million). Contact our
office via phone, or fax.
September 18, 2003:
The Honourable Denis Coderre, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Canada, today announced an important decision and recommendation pertaining to
the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The Minister
announced an adjustment to the pass mark for federal skilled worker
applicants. Also, today he proposed new measures for assessing certain
economic class applicants who applied under the former Immigration Act
but were affected by transitional measures following implementation of IRPA on
June 28, 2002
The Minister's move to adjust the pass mark is a response to Canada's need
for skilled workers. Effective immediately, all new skilled worker applicants
and those currently in the system who have not yet received a selection
decision, will be assessed with a pass mark of 67. (Since the implementation
of IRPA and until today, the pass mark was 75.)
Additionally, persons who had applied prior to
January 1, 2002 will assessed under the Old Rule of only 70 points.
Minister Denis Coderre is proposing to amend the transition regulations to
allow economic class applicants (skilled workers and business immigrants) who
filed their applications for permanent residence before January 1, 2002
to be assessed under the former Immigration Act (and then under IRPA if
refused under the former Act). The Minister plans to consult his Cabinet
colleagues on these proposed regulatory amendments at the first available
opportunity.
These proposed amendments would meet the applicants' request to be
processed under the selection criteria in place at the time they filed their
applications and also give them the benefit of an assessment under IRPA.
CIC also proposes to offer the same processing to:
 | those people who had applied prior to January 01, 2002 and who were
refused between the coming into force of the new selection grid on March 31,
2003 and June 20, 2003; and
| those who withdrew their applications between January 01, 2002 and
the coming into force of these proposed regulatory amendments. |
|
Applicants in these last two groups will be required
to advise CIC of their desire to be processed before January 01, 2005.
For full details check the Revised Canada Regulations as of September 18,
2003. Click here.
August, 2003:
Please Look At Current List of Jobs in Canada
for which we have Immediate
hiring / Job offers.
June, 2002, Increase in Points Qualifications For
NZ:
From 18 June 2002 to 31 July 2002, overseas nationals applying for permanent residence in New Zealand under the General Skills Category will need a total of 28 points, instead of the 25 that are currently required.
Applications received before 18 June 2002 will still need a total of 25 points.
From 1 July 2002, the passmark will be reviewed each month. The Minister will give five working days notice if the passmark is to be changed.
Contact Information
| Primary |
|
| Immigration and Visas International |
|
| Professional Center at Somerset |
|
| 21 Clyde Road, Suite 201 |
|
| Somerset, NJ 08873-5043 |
|
- Telephone: 732-873-9600
- FAX:
732-873-9787
|
