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Immigration & Refugees

Visas platforms

Here's what the 2021 Canadian election parties are promising.

Liberal

Implement a program to issue visas to spouses & children abroad while they wait for processing of their permanent residency application.

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Implement a program to issue visas to spouses and children abroad while they wait for the processing of their permanent residency application, so that families can be together sooner.

Forward. For Everyone., retrieved 2021-09-02

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Conservative

  • Increase the capacity of the Immigration and Refugee Board to hear asylum claims.
  • Strengthen integrity and enforcement overall.
  • Explore requiring more enforceable commitments for visitors to abide by.
  • Allow family members of citizens to come & live in Canada for up to 5 years without permanent status, renewing their stay for additional time, where appropriate, if they purchase health insurance.

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• Allow family members of Canadians to come and live in Canada for up to five years without permanent status, renewing their stay for additional time, where appropriate, provided that they purchase health insurance.

• Allow those coming to Canada on a super visa to purchase health insurance from the government of their province or territory on a cost-recovery basis where the provincial or territorial government wishes to offer this option.

Canada's Recovery Plan, retrieved 2021-08-18

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We don't have any Bloc policies on Visas.
We don't have any NDP policies on Visas.

Green

Remove visa requirements for most parents visiting their children.

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Remove visa requirements for most parents visiting their children - including international students, temporary workers, Canadian citizens and convention refugees.

Be Daring., retrieved 2021-09-11

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