Last Updated on July 30, 2021 Canada has announced it will receive 30,000 new applications in 2021 for the Parents and Grandparents Program. That will bring to 40,000 the number of applications received this year, after the 10,000 delayed from 2020 due to COVID-19. A new round of Invitations to Apply will be sent out
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Last Updated on July 30, 2021 Ottawa is upping the level of protection it affords to temporary foreign workers after staffers with a government tip line received hundreds of reports of abuse earlier this year. “The Government of Canada takes the safety and dignity of foreign workers very seriously,” said Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino in
Last Updated on July 30, 2021 Ottawa’s attempt to re-build its Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) this year by lowering the income needed by sponsors and increasing the number of invitations to apply comes in the wake of it being dealt a devastating blow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in 2015, the program was responsible
Last Updated on July 29, 2021 Immigrants, temporary foreign workers and international students coming into Canada as the country re-opens its borders to non-essential travel starting next month will enjoy a bit of a post-pandemic popularity bump. And it’s all because they’ll be either fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 or will have been tested and found to
Last Updated on July 29, 2021 Manitoba immigration has issued 1,140 Letters of Advice to Apply to Express Entry skilled worker candidates in a major draw through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program. The July 27 draw saw LAAs issued through a single MPNP streams. That stream was Manitoba Express Entry, with a minimum score of
Last Updated on July 29, 2021 Ontario immigration has issued 1,031 Notifications of Interest targeting 18 occupations in a new draw through the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities stream. The July 27 Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) draw saw NOIs issued to candidates with Comprehensive Ranking System scores between 458 and 467 points. Candidates were
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Last Updated on July 28, 2021 British Columbia immigration has issued 59 invitations to skilled workers and international graduates in a new BC PNP Tech draw. The July 27 draw featured invitations through four streams of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program. Minimum scores were 80 for all four streams. The featured streams were: SI
Last Updated on July 28, 2021 Halfway through the year, Canada had only welcomed a smidgeon more than a third of the new permanent residents that Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino wants to let into Canada this year. Despite that shortfall, though, the immigration minister still maintains this year’s immigration target will be met. “Against all
Last Updated on July 27, 2021 British Columbia immigration is hitting the pause button on applications to the base category of its Entrepreneur Stream while pondering its next steps in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Given the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on B.C.’s economy, the temporary pause allows us to review the (Entrepreneur
Last Updated on July 27, 2021 Parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens or permanent residents can qualify for permanent residence through Canada’s Parents and Grandparents Program. Canada currently targets 23,500 new permanent residents per year through the program, according to the immigration levels plan announced in October 2020. More recently, Canada announced it would accept
Last Updated on July 26, 2021 Spouses of applicants under Quebec’s Programme de l’expérience québécoise – known as the Quebec Experience Program (PEQ) – must now show they can speak basic French. Quebec announced in July last year it was making changes to the PEQ. Among them was the requirement that spouses and common-law partners
Last Updated on July 26, 2021 Just about any specialty in medicine pays very well and doctors are almost universally highly-respected in Canada – but not all specialties pay the same. Even in the rarified world of doctors’ salaries, there are those who do better financially than their colleagues who went into other specialties. In
Last Updated on July 26, 2021 Toronto is a magnet for attracting some of the brightest tech workers in North America, a study released by a leading commercial real estate firm reveals. In its 2021 Scoring Tech Talent report, CBRE again places Toronto high among the top cities for the tech sector. In the last
Last Updated on July 23, 2021 Ottawa’s latest moves to help international students are not enough and the country should do more to make life easier for them, claim two immigration experts, writing for the Toronto Star. “Canada should consider expanding universal healthcare coverage to include international students, placing caps on tuition fees for international
Last Updated on July 23, 2021 Canada has offered refugee status to Afghani interpreters who worked with the Canadian Armed Forces and also cooks, drivers, cleaners, construction workers, security guards and other staff who worked at the Canada Embassy in Afghanistan and their family members. “Canada has a responsibility to protect the brave people in
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