Last Updated on September 15, 2021 Canada has conducted a new Express Entry draw, issuing 521 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) to Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) candidates. The September 15 draw featured a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 732, 32 points lower than the previous PNP draw. It follows a Canadian Experience Class (CEC)
Month: September 2021
Are you ready to travel to Canada? Many foreign nationals have been waiting to get the green light to travel abroad to Canada after almost two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions. This virus really put a damper on many visitor’s plans traveling to Canada but ultimately needed to comply to stop the spread. Recently announced,
Last Updated on September 15, 2021 Alberta immigration has conducted its largest-ever Express Entry draw, issuing invitations to 500 candidates. In the September 7 draw, Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program candidates needed a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score of 300. Important requirements for the Alberta Express Entry stream are that candidates have stated an interest in
Last Updated on September 15, 2021 British Columbia immigration has conducted two new draws, issuing invitations to a total of 464 candidates through the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program. The September 14 draws featured a general draw, and a second draw targeting two NOC codes: 0621 for Retail and Wholesale Trade Managers and 0631 for
Are you currently working and have experience as a Construction Worker and are also interested in immigrating to Canada? We have wonderful news for you! Canada considers Construction Workers, Skilled/Semi-Skilled workers which qualify individuals for Canadian programs like Federal Skilled Worker and Provincial Nominee Programs. Job Description (NOC 2011-7611 Construction Trades Helpers and Labourers) Construction
Last Updated on September 14, 2021 Ontario immigration has issued new Invitations to Apply for the provincial Masters Graduate and PhD Graduate streams. The province issued a total of 691 Expression of Interest ITAs on September 14 through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). The draw saw 627 ITAs issued to Masters Graduate candidates scoring
On September 20th, there is a federal election that will change Canadian immigration for the next four years. Whoever is elected will be in charge of managing and shaping the Canadian immigration system which makes each election very important. Immigration is a joint federal-provincial authority, according to the Constitution, with the federal government having the
As Canada continues to invite and welcome thousands of foreign nationals each year with open arms, many of these individuals are actively looking for ways to make Canada their permanent home. There are already numerous pathways for those seeking Canada PR through Express Entry and Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs). Recently, New Brunswick launched a new
Last Updated on September 14, 2021 Canada has passed the previous record for the most Invitations to Apply (ITAs) in a year with its latest Express Entry draw targeting Canadian Experience Class candidates. The 2,000 ITAs issued on September 14 saw the 2021 total reach 108,414, surpassing the previous record of 107,350 issued in 2020
Last Updated on September 13, 2021 Immigrants who arrived in Canada within the last five years are enjoying better employment prospects since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with their employment rate hitting 70.4 per cent last month. That’s 6.1 percentage points higher than in the same month in 2019, before the start of the
About every two weeks, Canadian immigration conducts at least one Express Entry Draw. So far throughout the year 2021, we have seen no Federal Skilled Worker draws. Prior to the pandemic, FSWP candidates received nearly half of all ITAs. Unlike the CEC or PNP draws we’ve seen an abundance of so far this year, the
Last Updated on September 13, 2021 Canadian immigration officials are telling anyone who applied for a visitor visa before Sept. 7 – the day the country opened its borders to all fully vaccinated travellers – to re-apply if their situation has changed and they are coming for one of 10 reasons. Those reasons include coming
Last Updated on September 11, 2021 Restaurateurs facing extreme labour shortages in Canada as the economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic are turning to international students and temporary foreign workers to pick up the slack. And the industry’s main lobbying organization wants Ottawa to make it easier to hire immigrants. “Restaurants are key to bringing
Last Updated on September 10, 2021 Unemployment reached its lowest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, as the Canada jobs pictures took another step forwards in August. The Statistics Canada Labour Market Survey recorded an unemployment rate of 7.1 percent, down 0.4 percentage points on July, as Canada’s economic recovery continued. As unemployment fell,
Last Updated on September 9, 2021 The Express Entry system is not itself an immigration program. It is an online system created to manage Canada’s immigration applications intake. Under that management system, Canada’s immigration department manages several economic immigration programs, including the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Canadian Experience Class and some
Many foreign nationals looking to immigrate to the United States to work are oftentimes asking more questions about the job offer requirement. This is a very important part of your US work visa application process as it’s the main requirement to qualify. Program Electronic Review Management is an online processing system for filing labor certification applications.