The Canadian government is seeking to double the number of offices where Chinese can apply for Canadian visas as it looks to boost the dwindling number of visitors, international students and even high-skilled foreign workers from China.

The Liberal government is looking to ease some rules to make it easier for international students who have been "shortchanged" by express entry to obtain permanent residency, says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum.

Businesses risks losing their competitive edge because immigration reforms brought in under the previous Conservative government have made it difficult to attract highly skilled workers, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says.

A new immigration system designed to attract highly skilled workers from around the world to meet Canada's labour needs has favoured a large number of temporary foreign workers who are already in this country.

Nearly half of the skilled immigrants who qualified for a chance to obtain permanent residency within the first three weeks of the launch of a new immigration system were not applying from abroad but were already in Canada, CBC News has learned.

Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has overseen in the past 18 months major and often controversial changes to the nature of immigration in Canada. Here are five immigration changes to watch for in 2015.

Some employers fear Americans working in Canada through the North American Free Trade Agreement, foreign nationals who have transferred to a Canadian branch and international youth working in Canada could be sideswiped by rules under the new express entry system that starts Jan. 1.

​A coalition of food, retail and tourism industry groups is calling on the Canadian government to give entry-level temporary foreign workers the same quick access that skilled immigrants will get under the new express entry system. Here are five things to know about express entry.

Here are three examples of how skilled immigrants could be ranked under a new system that will give them express entry into Canada within six months, starting Jan. 1.

With one month left to the launch of a new immigration system that will give skilled immigrants express entry into Canada, the government has made public for the first time the details of the points system it will use to select foreign workers where there are no Canadians available.

The federal government is addressing one of the main criticisms of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program through a new immigration system it plans to launch in 2015. Skilled immigrants who want to come to Canada as permanent residents will be offered express entry as a way to help meet the country's labour needs.

In preparation for the launch of express entry, a new immigration system set to launch on Jan. 1, 2015, Canada is actively recruiting skilled immigrants in the following 50 occupations, which the government says reflect the latest labour market needs.

The federal government is preparing to launch a new immigration system that will give skilled workers express entry into Canada starting Jan. 1, but first it's consulting stakeholders.

A newly released government study suggests newcomers to the country have misgivings about Express Entry, the government's new immigration system, set to come into effect on Jan. 1, 2015.

The Canadian government is forging ahead with a new immigration system that will offer "express entry" to qualified immigrants starting in January 2015 as a way to help fill open jobs for which there are no available Canadian workers.

The federal government is looking to match skilled immigrants with unfilled jobs, in a system it has compared to "a dating site," set to launch in 2015. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander told CBC News the government is looking for "an economic match."