The Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Sean Fraser, has announced a new immigration pathway that aims to connect employers in Canada with skilled refugees and displaced people. The pathway will be available under the federal Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP), which was designed to help employers hire skilled refugees and other displaced...
The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) candidates in the Express Entry pool are anxiously waiting for their invitations to apply for permanent residency. The last-all program draws took place almost two months ago, leaving Post-Graduate Work Permit (PGWP) holders in the CEC program concerned as their permits approach expiration. Express Entry draws have been program-specific, targeting...
Canada is experiencing explosive population growth leading to soaring rent prices in major cities. This condition has forced many Canadians to leave these urban centres and look for more affordable housing options in other communities. In light of these developments, there is a belief that immigration may compromise the Canadian housing market by creating a...
Canada welcomed over 437,000 new permanent residents (PRs) in 2022, according to data released by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). This marks a nearly eight percent increase from the previous year and is the second consecutive year that Canada has exceeded its stated immigration target. This feat has been achieved by Canada only three...
Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal are three primary locations where immigrants have historically settled. A survey published by Statistics Canada in 2021 shows that 29.5% of recent Canadian immigrants – those who came to Canada between 2016 and 2021 – settled in Toronto, 12.2% settled in Montreal, and a bit more than that (11.7%) decided to...
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has decided to modernize the entire application submission system for Canada’s spousal and common-law partner sponsorship programs. IRCC in an attempt to improve client service is converting the application submission process into a digital mode. On digitizing, the IRCC says, “the initiative will give more flexibility to the clients...
IRCC has just announced the application intake process for the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) 2022 and plans to issue invitations to apply over the next two weeks to 23,100 potential sponsors. They also mentioned that this figure is enough to achieve its goal of accepting up to 15,000 complete applications for sponsorship under the...
A Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is to ensure that hiring an international worker will have a positive or neutral impact on the Canadian labor force. Work permits that require an LMIA come under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). Canada permits some international workers to immigrate to Canada to work without an LMIA. These...
The only country with three cities in the top ten is – Canada. In their 2022 Global Livability Index, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has ranked 172 top cities from all over the world, of which, Canadian cities made known in the top ten. The EIU’s rankings are based on several important factors, such as...
