Why hire a foreign worker? It’s completely natural to have doubts about hiring a foreign skilled worker for your Canadian business. So many legal procedures and formalities along with ongoing immigration compliances. Plus, there will be the cultural challenges of having somebody from another country working with your team. Yet, it doesn’t make sense to avoid hiring...
How can a business owner immigrate to Canada? Express Entry is for employees but what about self-employed immigration to Canada? Are there special options for entrepreneurs? Business immigration is very important because entrepreneurs create jobs, which is the source of all economic growth and development. Read ahead for an overview of all PNP programs...
How did Canada manage to keep its immigration programs running even at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic? Primarily by conducting Express Entry draws solely for the Canada Experience Class Program and EE-specific streams of Provincial Nomination Programs. In 2019, more than four out of every ten Express Entry ITAs issued went to those...
Canada was recently ranked as the most-preferred destination for foreign skilled workers across the world. One reason why Canada displaced the US as the world’s preferred immigrant destination was the anti-immigration policies and rhetoric of Donald Trump. But the US no longer has a President who feels foreign skilled workers steal jobs from Americans...
The virus, mutations and all, has run its course and the pandemic is unlikely to cast its shadow on 2022 as well. In such a scenario, it may be time to take a closer look at your Canada immigration strategy. Where should you immigrate in Canada? More than half of all immigrants entering Canada...
Let things go back to as they were—this is probably the best way to describe the world’s efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. We all want to go back to the times when we could go out, travel, meet our loved ones, work in offices, and lead our lives without any worries about masks,...
Canada has multiple immigration pilot programs covering specific regions, occupations, and communities. The four Atlantic provinces have the Atlantic Immigration pilot. And then there is the Rural and Northern pilot focusing on boosting rural immigration. Occupation-specific pilots include the BC Tech pilot, the Home Child Care Provider and Home Support Worker pilots, and the...
209,000 people in over 190 countries were asked to name the foreign country where they would most like to work and the unequivocal answer is—Canada. Traditionally, the US has been the preferred foreign work destination for skilled workers across the globe. However, four years of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies combined with the country’s ham-handed response to...
Life would be so easy if it were all about top-3 lists, right? Unfortunately, that’s not how immigration works. More than half of Canada’s recent immigrants live in three cities—Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver. This statistic may make you feel that you too should focus on these cities for your immigration plans. But here is...
