hi everyone my name is Marilyn Quintana and today we are going to discuss the
most important updates during the covid 19 situation
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videos the first update is that you are not able to enter Canada currently if
you have a visitor visa or electronic travel to authorization unless your trip it is
essential, essential could be family reunification for example if you have a
family member in Canada who are a Canadian citizen a permanent resident
A student or worker anyone a reunite with that family in
Canada then you can travel but remember if you're a family member it is a
permanent resident or a Canadian citizen you don't need special authorization
however if you're a family member it is a study permit holder or work permit
holder you must send a request for authorization to an a specific email
that will authorize your trip to Canada other example of essential travels could
be coming to work in essential service for example transportation, health
services or food processing or if you also have I study plan to Canada in this
case if you have a study permit approved before March 18. remember that for you
to travel you cannot show any symptoms of the covid 19 so if were coughing
or have fever you may be prevented from boarding to Canada more recently was
also issued update requiring all travelers to were masks so they can
protect themselves and also to protect the workers on the transit on the
airport or even on the Airplane if you have already a visa prove to Canada
before March 18 you can travel but if you are institution it is offering
online courses you can also start studying online even from outside Canada
and the fact that you are studying online won't affect your post-graduation
work permit so this is very important and I think it is a very nice measure to
consider because you can study from the comfort of your home without put
yourself at risk when traveling until everything goes away. The Government of
Canada will allow you to study for up to 50% of the duration of your problem
online so if the situation continues you can stir it up to 50% and then it still
won't affect your post graduation work permit it is important to remember that
if you decide to come to Canada you are subjected to quarantine which means you
must self isolate for 14 days and you must present to the officer that you
made arrangements to stay at home and do not go anywhere during the first 14 days
so this is very important and if you don't comply with that requirement you
may be subjected to prison to fines and even put at risk your furture
immigration plan because you may be considered inadmissible to Canada
because you did not comply with the regulation. If you are coming as a worker
the Government of Canada may request that you still have a job offer a valid
job offer and a confirmation that your employer is waiting for you, yet you must
comply with the 14 days and you must and in this case you can receive this salary
while on quarantine so from the day you arrive in Canada you are considered
already as part of the workforce and then you have to receive money for those
days even though we cannot go to work so that's very important you if you're
planning to come to Canada we have partners that can help you okay if we're
planning to come to Canada we have partners that can help you with finding
a place and also helping you to buy the grocery stores so you can respect the
the self-isolation period that's required if you haven't applied for your
visa yet the government of canada continues to receive applications but
they are prioritizing the urgent applications especially outside Canada
so your application can be accepted but most likely you have delays
if you're in Canada the application continues to be processed you can still
do the medical exam here in Canada in most locations but your application will
not be completed process if you are unable to do the biometrics and
unfortunately the centers that collect biometrics outside Canada and inside
Canada are still closed if you received a letter for bio-metrics
they usually state that you have only 30 days to complete the
biometrics requirements however due to the Covid 19 they are automatically
extending the time for you to the do the bio-Metric, to 90 days so three months
and you don't need to send any requests for an extension to the
Government of Canada it's already considered automatically if you received
a letter for biometrics and you couldn't do before
the closing of the biometric Center, you automatically have 90 days if you already
applied for permanent resident of Canada received the approval and didn't travel
before March 18 we recommend for you to wait until the the service is normalized
so this trip may not be considered essential and you may have a hard time
explaining to the officer while you decide to travel because this as I
mentioned put at risk the lives of people that are working and they are
their travelers as well so in this case if your document expires it is possible
to request an extension so don't worry about it if your documents expiring you
just need to send a request for an extension via webform explaining that it
couldn't travel because of the current situation as you may know for those who
are already in Canada even with the temporary resident for example assisted
or work permit they are eligible for the government benefits the Government of
Canada is paying $2,000 for all those who lost their jobs while in Canada so
if you had worked before in Canada and received at least $5,000 in the past
year you are eligible for the Canadian emergence benefit plan
and one question that comes with that is if you want to apply for immigration
later? or if I wanted to sponsor my spouse with receiving that benefit
affect my eligibility? no it won't affect you can still receive the benefit and
apply for permanent residency or a sponsor I spouse and this won't affect
you our eligibility to apply here in Vancouver BC and a lot of other
provinces where the Covid 19 situation is not as critical the provincial
government representatives are already considering reopening partially some of
the business and it slowly going back to the normalcy because of that I do
believe that all these limitations are going to come to an end very very soon
so keep an eye on our social media on our videos and hopefully I can bring
some updates for you very very soon I hope you guys like this video if so
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