{"id":4993,"date":"2026-01-02T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:28:35","slug":"stricter-integration-requirements-civic-exam-and-proficiency-in-the-french-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/stricter-integration-requirements-civic-exam-and-proficiency-in-the-french-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Stricter integration requirements &#8211; Civic exam and proficiency in the French language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As of January 1, 2026, two new separate integration requirements are now in effect under the Immigration Act of January 26, 2024: passing a civic exam and demonstrating sufficient French language proficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-aero-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Client-alert-Examen-CIR-English-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Access the client alert<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of January 1, 2026, two new separate integration requirements are now in effect under the Immigration Act of January 26, 2024: passing a civic exam and demonstrating sufficient French language proficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karlwaheed.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}