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Family reunification in Canada is one of the main immigration categories, allowing Canadian citizens or permanent residents to sponsor their close relatives to join them in Canada and obtain permanent residency. Sponsorship is generally limited to spouses, common-law partners, conjugal partners, and their dependent children, although under ...
Family reunification laws try to balance the right of a family to live together with the country's right to control immigration. How they balance and which members of the family can be reunited differ largely by country. A subcategory of family reunification is marriage migration in which one spouse immigrates to the country of the other spouse.
The primary law on these matters is in the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, whose goals include economic growth, family reunification, and compliance with humanitarian treaties. As a result of the 1991 Canada-Quebec Accord, Quebec gained full selection process for economic migrants within the province's borders. [1]
The beginnings of the development of Canada's contemporary policy of multiculturalism can be traced to the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, which was established on July 19, 1963 by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in response to the grievances of Canada's French-speaking minority. [19]
The Department of Homeland Security said it would move most of the application process for both the Cuba and Haiti family reunification programs online.
The main driver of Canadian population growth is immigration, [5] driven mainly by economic policy and also family reunification. [6] [7] A record number of 405,000 immigrants were admitted to Canada in 2021, [8] with plans to increase the annual intake of immigrants to 500,000 per year. [9]
The family reunification program for Ecuadoreans mirrors similar initiatives already available to certain nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Within Parkdale, a significant concern among Tibetan Canadian families is reunification with their relatives. Tibetans living in Canada that have already obtained permanent residency have found difficulty bringing their family members into Canada. Many of the relatives that have been unable to come to Canada live in Nepal and India.