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Canada ended the practice of flagpoling for work and study permits at ports of entry, requiring renewals through IRCC instead. This aims to streamline port operations and border enforcement ...

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Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on ...

Decision is latest border security measure to dissuade Trump from imposing tariffs Work and study permits will no longer be available for flagpolers at ports of entry in Canada. Flagpolers are ...

(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) Work and study permits will no longer be available for flagpolers at ports of entry in Canada. Flagpolers are foreign nationals holding temporary resident status ...

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4:54 Trump pushes Canada to secure its shared border As of midnight on Monday, the immigration practice known as ‘flagpoling’ was officially ended, the Canada Border Services Agency said in a ...

It’s the practise where someone with temporary resident status in Canada leaves the country, often going to the U.S. or Saint Pierre and Miquelon — a French territory off the southern coast ...

Work and study permits will no longer be available for flagpolers at ports of entry in Canada. Flagpolers are foreign nationals holding temporary resident status in Canada who leave the country and re ...