Month: February 2024

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here.  Canada has conducted another targeted Express Entry draw, issuing 2,500 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) under the French language proficiency category. The February 29 draw saw a minimum Comprehensive Ranking

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here.  Canada has conducted another targeted Express Entry draw, issuing 2,500 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) under the French language proficiency category. The February 29 draw saw a minimum Comprehensive Ranking

Immigrants are increasingly likely to land jobs and better pay than they did in the past but still lag behind the rest of the Canadian population when it comes to employment and income, reveals a Statistics Canada report. “Since the early 2010s, recent immigrants in the 25 to 54 age group have seen a faster

Quebec’s temporary worker labour force roughly quadrupled in only eight years, reveals a Quebec think-tank in its latest report. “The number of temporary work permits has gone from 43,770 in 2015 to 167,435 in 2023,” the Institut du Québec (IDQ) notes in its February report. “These immigrants come to Quebec through two main programs: the

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here.  Canada has conducted another General Express Entry draw, issuing 1,470 Invitations to Apply (ITAs).  The February 28 draw saw a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 534 points

Foreign nationals hoping to immigrate to Canada through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) now have to complete an Application Consent form but no longer need to provide an Attestation Form under the province’s Expression Of Interest (EOI) system. “As of Feb. 26, 2024, all new applications for an … OINP nomination must include the Applicant

Prince Edward Island is slowing down immigration as it struggles to catch up with more housing and infrastructure to welcome more newcomers. “PEI, like many jurisdictions, is faced with finding the right balance of welcoming new residents to our Island workforce and relieving the pressure population growth has on our increasingly stressed public services and

Canada’s federal government is pumping $475,788 into a trilingual hotline to help Ukrainians in Canada access the legal services they need for the coming three years. The money is going to Pro Bono Ontario’s Ukrainian Refugee Legal Relief Initiative and will allow displaced Ukrainians access to legal information and advice, including the toll-free hotline that

Quebec immigration has announced details of a new draw through the Arrima Expression of Interest system, issuing 1,034 Canada immigration invitations to apply. The February 8 draw targeted two different groups of candidates, with February 5 listed as the date of extraction from the Arrima bank. In the first group, candidates needed a French language

Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta did the best job of any of the provinces of hanging onto their immigrants who arrived in Canada from 2012 to 2016, a Statistics Canada report reveals. In its Provincial Variation In The Retention Rates Of Immigrants, 2022 report, released on Feb. 14 this year, the statistical and demographic services

British Columbia has issued at least 213 invitations in a new draw through the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program. The February 21 draw saw invitations issued in five different categories. A general draw, which included tech occupations, saw 69 invitations issued through five BC PNP streams for skilled workers and international graduates. Minimum scores ranged

Canada is helping internationally educated health care professionals (IEHPs) work in Yukon by investing to speed up their accreditation. Rechie Veldez, Minister of Small Business, has announced up to $3.65 million in funding to the Government of Yukon through the Foreign Credential Recognition Program, to improve the integration of IEHPs into the Yukon labor market.

Quebec’s French language commissioner wants to strike a deal with Canada’s federal government to ensure only French-speaking asylum claimants will be directed to settle in the province. “A new federal-provincial agreement is needed to support the welcoming and integration of asylum claimants,” wrote French Language Commissioner Benoît Dubreuil in French. “The agreement should not only

Ontario universities say they want at least 35 per cent of the international students allowed into the province in the wake of Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s cap on study permit applications, the Toronto Star reports. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) reportedly wants about 82,250 of 235,000 study permit applications accepted from international students to

Ontario universities say they want at least 35 per cent of the international students allowed into the province in the wake of Immigration Minister Marc Miller’s cap on study permit applications, the Toronto Star reports. The Council of Ontario Universities (COU) reportedly wants about 82,250 of 235,000 study permit applications accepted from international students to

A new project to identify at least 200 skilled refugees from Tanzania and Mexico to Canada through the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) is being launched by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). This project is set to unfold over the next few months and aims to provide the