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🇨🇦 IRCC Clarifies Who Can Avoid a New Immigration Medical Exam
Plus: Canada bans AI-generated evidence, Quebec weighs deep immigration cuts, and this week's provincial draws.
In this week’s issue, Canada bans AI-generated personal evidence in immigration hearings, a Quebec election result puts major immigration cuts on the table, and Ottawa eases work-permit job-offer rules for home-based businesses.
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🇨🇦 IRCC Clarifies Who Can Avoid a New Immigration Medical Exam  IRCC has clarified who can skip a new immigration medical exam by reusing one completed in the past five years — and the key condition is that you must be living in Canada. The clarification, buried in updated Express Entry instructions, mainly affects people who studied or worked in Canada and later moved abroad. 🏠 You must be in Canada ✅ Four conditions to qualify ✈️ Moved abroad? Exam required |
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TRENDING NEWS Canada has banned AI-generated personal evidence in immigration and refugee hearings, with the Immigration and Refugee Board barring AI from creating or materially altering affidavits, witness statements and photos across all four divisions as of September 7. Spell-check stays fine, but other AI use must be disclosed and human-verified — and breaches can sink a claim’s credibility. Routine IRCC applications are unaffected. Read more A Parti Québécois win has put major Quebec immigration cuts on the agenda, after the party took 59 of 127 seats in the October 5 election to form a minority government. Its platform would lower annual permanent admissions from 45,000 to about 35,000, halve the temporary-resident population over four years, and pause overseas economic selection. These are campaign promises, not law, so current programs still stand. Read more Ottawa has eased work-permit job-offer rules for home-based businesses, clarifying that a residential address alone no longer makes a job offer suspect. Officers must weigh the business type and overall evidence of real activity, and the old physical-workplace requirement is gone — though paper-only shell companies still fail and employers must show they can pay the offered wage. Read more Canada is changing how refugee claims are filed from November 3, when asylum claims submitted through the IRCC Portal move to a new process under Bill C-12. Claims filed by 11:59 p.m. ET on November 2 generally avoid the new questions; unfinished applications keep saved details but need review, and CBSA-started claims not linked to a portal account by the deadline must be re-entered. Read more |
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📊 Numbers to Know — Provincial Draws
No federal Express Entry round was held this week. Provincial programs use their own scoring; “n/p” = cutoff not published. |
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