POLICY WATCH
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The engine checks these official sources every night between 12 and 3 a.m. ET and flags any change for review. A licensed RCIC verifies before anything is published here — the machine watches, the licence signs.
IRCC raised PR costs: the Right of Permanent Residence Fee is now $600, and Express Entry processing is $990. Our fee ledger already reflects this — if someone quotes you the old numbers, they're working from a stale sheet.
The federal citizenship fee for adults increased to $653 total (processing + right of citizenship). Minors are unchanged. Anyone quoting less is either out of date or leaving a line item out.
ESDC charges employers $1,000 per position for LMIA processing, and the employer cannot recover it from the worker. A recruiter or 'agent' asking the worker to cover the LMIA fee — or to pay for a job offer — is describing something illegal. That's not a fee, it's a flag.
Most study-permit applications require a PAL from the province before IRCC will look at the file, and provinces issue them against a capped allocation. Timing matters: an admission without a PAL strategy is half a plan. Our study service prices this coordination as the real work it is.
Today, a licensed human reads the official pages and verifies every entry by hand. The data engine we're building watches those sources continuously — when IRCC changes a fee, a form, or a rule, it flags the change for RCIC review the same day. Same honest page, much faster signal.
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