Filipiniana News – October 2012 RHYME & REASON In case you missed the previous month’s announcements from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), discussed below are some highlights of further developments relating to Canadian citizenship matters. For Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) participants, also discussed below is a relevant update regarding the cancelled hotline for live-in caregivers that was created in 2009 by the Ontario Ministry of Labour to help protect and promote caregivers’ employment rights. New Language Requirement for Citizenship Applicants Effective 1 November 2012, CIC will be having stricter requirements for proving the applicants’ knowledge of either the English or French language. Before this change took effect, the only way that CIC assessed a citizenship applicant’s knowledge of English or French is through casual interaction with CIC staff and by assuming the ap...