Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen says Canada needs to bring in more foreign nationals to work in the building trades to fill jobs going begging for a lack of workers as Baby Boomers retire out of the workforce. “We know there is over a million jobs in Canada that remain unfilled, so
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Payroll administrators from countries throughout the world can now immigrate to Canada through the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) program of the Express Entry system. Read more: The change to the FSW which made that possible came on Nov. 16 when Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) added 16 new jobs to its list of eligible occupations under that worker immigration
The slow pace of Canada’s economic growth has made it difficult for business owners, particularly those in the tourism industry, to find the workers they require. Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, and Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, announced that Canada is extending work permits to family members
I reached out to VisaPlace kind of on a whim, knowing that I needed to apply for permanent residency in order to stay with my spouse and our two cats. They were immediately and incredibly responsive, and almost instantly made me feel that I was dealing with professionals who cared about my case. I reached
Atlantic Canada is retaining more of its immigrants since launching the pilot program five years ago that became the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) in 2022, reveals Statistics Canada data. Read more: “Three years into the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), the one-year retention rate of skilled workers and skilled trades categories had risen substantially in
It has been the most unique year in the history of Canada’s Express Entry immigration system. Starting with all-program draws on hold for the first six months, they then returned for five months, before being suspended again due to a computer problem. A massive backlog of applications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) only showed
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem wants the country to bring in even more immigrants to fill the jobs going begging for a lack of workers – and has warned even more interest rate increases could be in store without those extra workers. In a speech at the Conference on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in
Ottawa is plunking down $6.2 million to help partner organizations run six projects and bring more skilled refugees to Canada under the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP). “Resettlement provides refugees with the opportunity to live in safety and rebuild their lives but it shouldn’t mean their career experience gets overlooked in the process,” said Immigration
Thousands of young adults are coming to Canada each year for higher education. A huge benefit to this and a reason many immigrants choose this route is the opportunity to gain permanent residency after their studies. What’s better than knowing you could come to Canada for education and then have a good chance of making
Quebec is going to stop accepting applications from those who don’t speak French for one of the streams of its Quebec Entrepreneur Program (QEP) and the Quebec Self-Employed Program (QSP) as of Dec. 28. The affected stream of the QEP is for candidates receiving support from a business accelerator, a business incubator or a university
A record-breaking number of foreign nationals are working in Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and International Mobility Program (IMP) this year, the latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals. In the first 10 months of this year alone, those two programs resulted in almost half a million foreign nationals, exactly 498,435,
A three-month program to recognize the foreign credentials of physicians could be in place in Ontario by as early as next spring, says the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). In a submission to Ontario’s ministry of health earlier this year, the self-regulating body for Ontario’s medical profession proposes a 12-week program for
A foreign national from India has just won a ruling in federal court after taking on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for refusing him a work permit due to his lack of experience driving on British Columbia roads. Satnam Singh, 35, had landed a job as a long-haul truck driver with Super Bee Transport
Immigrants and temporary residents are increasingly settling in Prince Edward Island and helping employers there deal with labour shortages, the latest data from the Canadian census reveals. In its Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population released last month, the statistical and demographic services agency shows more than three times as many residents settled on the
Immigrants pushed Canada’s population up by almost a full percentage point in the third quarter of this year, the fastest quarterly population growth in Canada in 65 years, reports Statistics Canada. By Oct. 1, the Canadian population had hit 39,292,355 people. That was up 362,453 people, or 0.9 per cent, from the country’s population on
According to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), nearly a million immigrant adults were naturalized as American citizens in the fiscal year 2022, the third-highest annual tally in US history. Naturalizations have reached a 14-year high, a year after President Biden directed federal agencies to promote naturalizations by removing bureaucratic barriers in the citizenship process,
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