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Recent Immigration Policy Updates

Filipiniana News   -   November 2016 Rhyme and Reason Recent Immigration Policy Updates On November 8, the night of the US presidential elections, the website of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) crashed as the election results started showing a trend in favor of Donald Trump winning over Hillary Clinton.   This led many to suspect that many Americans were scrambling to find more information on how to move to Canada if Trump becomes the next US president (as many had threatened during the long and bitter campaign period).   When the IRCC website was restored later the next day, November 9, others wondered whether the high traffic was also due to the last minute scramble to apply for electronic travel authorizations (ETA) which was due for strict implementation starting 10 November 2016.      In any case, there is no doubt that the IRCC website (http://www.cic.gc.ca) continues to be a very much in demand and dynamic repository of information as it