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The federal government needs to do more to prevent misuse of visitors visas by people coming to Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.

"We've taken a number of measures throughout the summer, particularly to deal with the flow of people coming into the country," Miller told CBC News last week.

"And it's no surprise to anyone that … we need to do a stronger job in making sure that people that are coming here, for example on visitor's visas, do so for those purposes and not for the purposes...

A “growing number” of international students are claiming asylum in order to stay in Canada after being allowed in on student visas, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says, calling it an “alarming trend.”

Speaking to Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block, Miller said those claimants are using the international student program as a “backdoor entry into Canada,” often to lower their tuition fees, and that universities and colleges must improve their screening and...

Starting today, employers in Canada will face new restrictions on their hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers — a policy shift the federal government says will push businesses to make a greater effort to hire workers already in Canada.

Under the new restrictions:

• Employers will be limited to hiring 10 per cent of their workforce through the program's low-wage stream.
• Employers will be unable to hire through this program if they are in census metropolitan areas with unemployment rates of...

The Liberal government says it will slash the number of international student permits it issues by another 10 per cent.

The government says the new target for 2025 and 2026 will be 437,000 permits. In 2024, the target was 485,000 permits.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday the government expects the changes to "yield approximately 300,000 fewer study permits" over the next three years.

Ottawa is also putting new limits on work permits for spouses of both foreign workers and students...