Month: Oktyabr 2023

British Columbia has issued at least 181 invitations in new draws through multiple streams of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program. The October 11 draws were targeted at specific occupations. In a tech draw, 118 invitations were issued to skilled workers and international graduates with a minimum score of 90 points. A further 45 invitations

Up to five entrepreneurs can be owners of the same business to gain permanent residency in Canada under the Start-Up Visa program. A qualifying business has to get a commitment from a designated organization that can be any one of the approved angel funds, venture capital groups or business incubators to be part of the

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada is to raise immigration targets for francophones from other countries hoping to settle in Canada outside of the province of Quebec. “Ottawa is planning to increase the target for francophone immigration outside of Quebec,” Miller tweeted. The move comes as francophone immigration to Canada is already increasing. The latest

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is extending the relief period for those whose immigration and citizenship documentation have been lost or damaged as a result of the massive wildfires in Canada. “We are extending these temporary, special measures until Nov. 30,” tweeted the IRCC. Under the temporary policy, Canadian immigration officials are replacing documents for Canadians,

Canada is launching a new humanitarian immigration pathway for Colombians, Haitians and Venezuelans already in Central or South America or the Caribbean who have extended family connections in Canada. “Starting this fall, Colombian, Haitian and Venezuelan foreign nationals located in Central or South America or the Caribbean who have extended family connections in Canada will

Thousands of Canada jobs for railway traffic controllers and marine traffic regulators are forecast to go begging for a lack of qualified workers to fill them over the next nine years unless foreign nationals seeking to gain their permanent residence in Canada agree to move here. Job Bank, the federal job-hunting and career-planning website, lumps in

Even with a projected 6,100 immigrants landing Canada jobs as residential and commercial installers and servicers in Canada over the coming nine years, the country will still suffer from a shortage of these workers, reports the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS). “Although the labour shortage conditions seen in recent years were expected to be temporary,

Prince Edward Island has issued invitations to apply to 20 skilled worker Canada immigration candidates in a new provincial draw. The October 5 draw saw invitations issued through the Labour Impact and Express Entry Prince Edward Island Provincial Nominee Program (PEI PNP) stream. Invitations were issued to individuals working in the healthcare and food processing

Canada begins sending invitations to apply for the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) from today. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is sending invitations to apply to 24,200 interested potential sponsors over a two-week period, with the goal of receiving up to 15,000 complete applications. The invitations are limited to the families of those sponsors who

Canada has issued 3,725 Invitations to Apply to in a new all-program Express Entry draw. The October 10 draw featured a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score of 500, four points lower than the previous all-program draw, on September 26. Canada has now conducted the following draws this year: 17 all-program draws Four PNP draws Four draws targeted

Toronto, the biggest city in Canada, rose in the rankings of the top cities in the world this year, inching up a notch to the 23rd spot in Resonance’s World’s Best Cities report for 2024. In that report, the global consulting firm also included Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal as among the top 100 cities

Immigrants to Canada are expected to fill roughly a third of the 3,800 Canada jobs for metallurgical and materials, industrial and manufacturing engineers over the coming nine years, reports the Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS). “New immigrants are also expected to be a major source of labour supply in this occupation, accounting for about 32

The Parti Quebecois has claimed that an uptick in the number of temporary immigrants to the French-Canadian province is causing francophone Quebecers to become a minority. The claim regarding the advent of an impending demographic transition was made last Thursday, reports the Montreal Gazette, based on Statistics Canada numbers from the previous day. The critics

The Canadian Senate committee studying Canada’s temporary foreign worker program’s (TFWP) efficiency and possible areas for improvement has asserted that the immigration pathway in question is “in need of a critical rethink.” “Over the course of the last couple of years, we have heard various concerns about temporary foreign workers and there is an interest

Statistics Canada reported that job vacancies declined by 43,100 (-5.8%) to reach 701,300 in July 2023, which is a continuation of a steady downward trend since June of last year. This means that the month in question has witnessed a 273,700 drop in job vacancies on a year-over-year basis, holding vacancies at their lowest level