{"id":2768,"date":"2018-02-12T22:52:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T03:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2018-03-08T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:54:27","slug":"canada-is-shortening-wait-times-to-bring-spouses-from-abroad-immigration-minster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/canada-is-shortening-wait-times-to-bring-spouses-from-abroad-immigration-minster\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is shortening wait times to bring spouses from abroad: Immigration minster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada is shortening wait times to bring spouses from abroad: Immigration minster<\/h1>\n

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has met its goal of shortening wait times for those hoping to sponsor their spouse from abroad.<\/p>\n

Hussen says the backlog of applications now sits at 15,000, down from 75,000 in 2016.<\/p>\n

Processing times are 12 months for those who filed an application prior to December 2016, while applications before that date take about 26 months.<\/p>\n

The Liberals had made family reunification programs an immigration priority upon coming to office in 2015 and have been gradually increasing the number of newcomers admitted in those programs since.<\/p>\n

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Canada is shortening wait times to bring spouses from abroad: Immigration minster<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada is shortening wait times to bring spouses from abroad: Immigration minster Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,83],"tags":[176,174,175],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada-immigration","category-new","tag-canadianvisa","tag-sponsorship","tag-spousal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadianvisa.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}