Statistics Canada’s study on immigrant mobility names Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton as the cities with the best immigrant retention. Studying where immigrants prefer to stay is important in developing policies that attract newcomers to a particular area. Through mobility data, we learn what sorts of places immigrants find attractive, and what factors play into […]
ANALYSIS: The coronavirus pandemic continued to influence the direction of Canada’s immigration system in 2021. The onset of the coronavirus pandemic changed the course of Canada’s immigration system in 2020 and while things have stabilized, the pandemic caused IRCC to make major adjustments in 2021. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) entered 2021 facing difficult […]
Immigration applicants in Canada may not need to do an additional medical exam to apply for permanent residency. Canada’s immigration department is renewing a temporary medical exam exemption on some foreign nationals who are applying for immigration. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is extending the already-existing medical exam exemption on immigration candidates applying from inside Canada […]
Nova Scotia saw some of its fastest growth in 2021. Nova Scotia’s population has breached one million people, which is largely thanks to immigration. Nova Scotia passed the population milestone following record growth since July 2021. The month before, Canada had lifted travel restriction on approved permanent residents, which had limited immigration since the border […]
Record job vacancies coincided with growth in overall employment and falling unemployment. Canada had an all-time high of 912,600 job vacancies in the third quarter of 2021, according to a new Statistics Canada report. This occurred as Canada’s economy continued to recover amid the easing of public health restrictions. The record-high level of job vacancies was […]
Previously known as “implied status”, maintained status is a way to extend your stay in Canada. Under Canadian immigration law, all temporary residents have an automatically imposed condition that they are required to leave Canada after their authorized period of stay. However, Section 181 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR) states that […]
It has been nearly a full year since Canada held its last all-program Express Entry draw. Canada invited 746 Express Entry candidates to apply for permanent residence on December 22. Invited candidates had previously received a nomination through a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), adding 600 points to their base human capital score. As a result, the […]
The BC PNP is designed to attract foreign workers in high demand and who want to become permanent residents. British Columbia invited 243 immigration candidates through Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) draws held on December 21. The province held two draws through the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) and invited candidates from the Skills Immigration (SI) and Express Entry BC (EEBC) streams. […]
Canada has landed over 400,000 new permanent residents in 2021 for just the second time since it was founded as a country in 1867. This has just been confirmed in a news release by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The department also confirmed that the country has broken its all-time record for permanent residence landings in […]
The median income of immigrants without Canadian experience is lower than that of those who worked and studied in Canada, a Statistics Canada study reveals. Immigrant wages have been trending up in recent years, according to a new Statistics Canada study. Immigrants who became permanent residents in 2018 had a median wage of $31,900 reported in […]
