“We’re on track right now to restore our pre-pandemic service standard by the end of this calendar year for virtually every line of business,” said Minister Sean Fraser in a recent interview with CIC News. This article is Part 3 of a special CIC News series summarizing the interview with the minister. Canada’s Immigration Minister […]
Part 2 of CIC News’s exclusive interview with Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on the changes to the Express Entry system currently being discussed in the Senate. The Canadian government has passed a bill that will allow the immigration minister to invite Express Entry candidates based on an economic goal. Bill C-19 received royal assent on […]
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program aims to address worker shortages in Canada. Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is a program intended to help Canadian employers find workers with highly specialized skills when they are unable to find the appropriate skill set among Canadians or permanent residents. Why does Canada have a TFWP? TFWP is designed to […]
Minister Fraser sat down with CIC News in Toronto this week to discuss the future of Canadian immigration. CIC News is releasing a special series on the interview over the coming weeks. In Part 1, we discuss the likely return to all-program draws next month. In an interview with CIC News, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said […]
Immigration Minister told CIC News in an exclusive interview that IRCC is aiming to resume all-program Express Entry draws on July 6. Canada invited 636 Express Entry candidates to apply for permanent residence on June 22. All invited candidates had previously received a nomination from a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) and had a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) of […]
High job vacancies coupled with low unemployment make for a tight labour market in Canada. Job vacancies in Canada climbed to 957,500 in the first quarter, the highest quarterly number on record according to Statistics Canada. The number of job vacancies has spiked by more than 72% representing about 401,900 positions compared to the first […]
Resources to start learning about Indigenous people in Canada on National Indigenous Peoples Day. June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day, an occasion to celebrate Indigenous people and cultures in Canada. Although immigrants oftentimes come to Canada not knowing much about Indigenous people, a recent Environics Institute survey suggests that immigrants generally want to support them, and […]
The province has issued invitations to more than 130 eligible candidates. Prince Edward Island has issued 136 invitations under the PEI Provincial Nomination Program (PEI PNP). The draw was held on June 16. A total of 127 invitations were under the Labour and Express Entry streams. Nine invitations were issued under PEI’s business impact and work permit stream with a minimum point threshold […]
People who commit crimes outside Canada become criminally inadmissible as soon as the charge is laid, but this is not the case for offences committed within Canada. You only become inadmissible for a crime committed in Canada when an actual conviction takes place and not before. This is thanks to phrasing in the Immigration […]
Nova Scotia welcomed over 9,000 newcomers in 2021 Nova Scotia has confirmed its allocations for the Nova Scotia Nominee Program (NSNP) and the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) for 2022. Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has increased the provincial nomination number to 5,340 and added 1,173 more endorsement spaces to the AIP, which is 75% more than 2021. IRCC determines the […]
