The Partners of McCuaig Desrochers LLP are pleased to announce that Nathan Po was again selected by his peers from across the country to be listed in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada in the field of Immigration Law. He has held this honour since 2018.

Dramatic changes to Canada’s International Student Program were announced on January 22, 2024. The changes represent significant reforms designed to stabilize Canada’s International Student Program and remove some of the incentives that have driven explosive international student growth in certain provinces. Effective immediately, Canada has introduced a two-year cap on the number of study permits that it would issue. For the next two years, Canada will cap the intake of study permit applications with the goal of only approving approximately

On January 30, 2024, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada announced that they would begin accepting the Pearson Test of English (PTE Core) language test for all lines of business (except the Student Direct Stream). Offered by Pearson Canada Inc., the PTE Core test now joins the CELPIP and the IELTS test as one of the English tests that applicants can use in support of their immigration applications. For French tests, the Test d’évaluation de français pour le Canada (TEF Canada)