Month: December 2020

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 Family sponsorship is one of the fastest and most popular ways to gain permanent residence in Canada and is expected to boom again as international travel restrictions ease up this year. India is the biggest source of new permanent residents to Canada and China the second-biggest such source.  Before

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 Foreign nationals hoping to immigrate to Canada in 2021 will be able to take advantage of five ways to gain their permanent residence once Covid-19 border restrictions are lifted. Certainly, the country is eager to boost its levels of immigration. During the pandemic, Canada’s federal government increased its immigration

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 Newfoundland and Labrador is planning to issue up to 350 Invitations to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence under the Atlantic Canadian province’s new Priority Skills NL Provincial Nominee Program. It kicks into gear on Jan. 2. In a guidebook released in late December, Newfoundland revealed it plans to issue

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 An organization that provides immigrants with reports to show their foreign degrees are equal to Canadian ones announced earlier this year it is cutting down on the paperwork needed to get these Educational Credential Assessments (ECA). Markham, Ontario-based World Education Services (WES) announced in December that in most cases

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 The Asian countries of India, China and the Philippines are sure to once again be the top three most important sources of new permanent residents to Canada in the coming year as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out and travel restrictions fall away. Before the pandemic hit and caused immigration

Last Updated on December 31, 2020 Small and medium-sized businesses in Canada are looking to spend more on technology as the Covid-19 pandemic draws to a close and that will spell opportunity for immigrant entrepreneurs in the Start-up visa program. “Nearly 40 per cent of Canadian SMEs plan to invest in technology in 2021, which

Last Updated on December 25, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended a ban on flights from the United Kingdom this week – only days before the traditionally-heavy holiday travel season – in a bid to stop a new variant of Covid-19 from making its way to Canada. “To prevent the new variant of Covid-19 from

Last Updated on December 24, 2020 Vaccines already being used in the fight to stop COVID-19 will give Canadian immigration a much-need shot in the arm in the coming year as governments lift travel restrictions imposed during the pandemic. “If all goes according to plan, we should be able to have the majority of Canadians

Last Updated on December 24, 2020 International students looking for a place to study abroad are giving Canada top marks for its handling of the COVID-19 global pandemic, says an Australian expert in international education trends. “In May, 2020 Navitas surveyed its global agent network to explore how COVID-19 was changing the fortunes of international

Canada’s provincial immigration programs have reacted in different ways to the coronavirus crisis. Measures were implemented by most provinces to help applicants affected by the pandemic. IRCC announced in September that Provincial Nominee Program candidates who lost their employment offers due to coronavirus have a year to find a new job and still qualify for

Last Updated on December 23, 2020 British Columbia immigration has conducted a new provincial draw, issuing 230 invitations to apply with certain jobs excluded due to coronavirus restrictions. The December 22 draw saw British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program officials exclude 31 occupations where a high-volume of applicants have recently been approved. Read More British Columbia

Last Updated on December 23, 2020 Canada recorded the lowest minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score of 2020 as it issued another 5,000 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) in a new Express Entry draw. The December 23 draw required a minimum CRS of 468 points, one point lower than the previous 2020 low of 469. It took