Canada

Last Updated on March 12, 2021 Manitoba immigration has issued 299 Letters of Advice to Apply to skilled workers and international graduates in the latest draw through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program. The March 11 draw saw LAAs issued through three MPNP streams. Skilled Workers in Manitoba received 261 LAAs, with the lowest-ranked candidates scoring

Last Updated on March 12, 2021 Canada saw an employment rebound in February, adding 259,000 jobs and seeing the lowest unemployment since March 2020, when COVID-19 restrictions were first imposed. The Canada jobs Labour Market Survey saw an unemployment rate of 8.2 percent, as the major provinces of Quebec and Ontario spearheaded the recovery. Stakeholders

Last Updated on March 12, 2021 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nixed the idea of vaccine passports for Canadians – but there are already companies and other governments around the world hard at work to put them in place. In an interview with Reuters about a month ago, the Canadian prime minister noted many people

Last Updated on March 12, 2021 Young refugees can get sponsored to study in Quebec again now that the francophone province’s premier has given the nod to the program to resume after it was halted last year.  College teacher Rafaëlle Sinave heralded the return of the program as win for students and colleges. “Victory!” tweeted

Last Updated on March 11, 2021 Immigrants – and especially newly-arrived ones – are more likely than other Canadians to buy businesses or set up their own, reveals a Statistics Canada report. “Recent immigrants were more likely to enter business ownership than Canadian-born individuals,” wrote Statistics Canada chief Douwere Grekou and analyst Bassirou Gueye in

Last Updated on March 11, 2021 Canada has confirmed January was a record month for immigration since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, with 24,665 new permanent resident admissions. The figure is 2,000 short of the one given by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino in a February Bloomberg interview, but is still the newest immigrants welcomed

Last Updated on March 10, 2021 British Columbia immigration has issued 87 invitations to skilled workers and international graduates in a new BC PNP Tech Pilot draw. The March 9 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:

Last Updated on March 9, 2021 British Columbia’s exports are expected to fuel the westernmost Canadian province’s economic recovery this year even as immigration remains sluggish and the region’s tourism industry struggles due to still-high COVID-19 case numbers. “In the long-run, Canada does have the capacity to hit the ambitious targets set out last fall

Last Updated on March 8, 2021 Canada has followed up its recent record-breaking Express Entry draw with a new one targeting Provincial Nominee Program candidates, issuing 671 Invitations to Apply (ITAs). The March 8 draw required a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 739 points, 19 higher than the previous PNP draw. It was

Last Updated on March 8, 2021 The global COVID-19 pandemic and the closure of Canada’s borders to almost all non-essential travel cut immigration to Quebec by more than a third last year and took a serious toll on its economy. Economic activity in Canada’s francophone province dropped sharply during the pandemic, driving its real GDP

Last Updated on March 7, 2021 Canada’s move to slash immigration scores to allow more people to become permanent residents is getting the two thumbs up from the Conference Board of Canada’s associate director of immigration research. “The long- and short-term benefits of maintaining high immigration levels are clear. In the long term, immigration fuels

Last Updated on March 5, 2021 Canada’s immigration department is targeting a return to one-year standard processing for spousal applications by hiring staff and increasing office space. In an announcement on Friday March 5, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says additional resources will be aimed at the processing of overseas applications in the family

Last Updated on March 5, 2021 Immigrants now overwhelmingly prefer Canada – often derided in popular culture south of the border as The Great White North – over the United States, a new report reveals. “If 30 years ago, you had asked somebody from Brazil, South Africa, or the UK which foreign country they would

Last Updated on March 4, 2021 U.S.-based Malwarebytes, a maker of anti-virus software, is warning of online attacks targeting immigrants. In its February Threat Intelligence Report, the American company reveals its analysts have uncovered a group, which is typically a nation-state or state-sponsored group, that has been stealthily gaining unauthorized access to computer networks.  In

Last Updated on March 4, 2021 Nova Scotia immigration has conducted a new business immigration draw targeting Entrepreneur Stream candidates. The draw, which took place on February 24, saw 43 invitations issued through the Nova Scotia Nominee Program, with the lowest-ranked candidate scoring 118 points. Nova Scotia Entrepreneur Draw Details Draw date Stream Number of

Last Updated on March 4, 2021 Alberta immigration has conducted a new Express Entry draw, issuing invitations to 159 candidates with Comprehensive Ranking System scores as low as 352. The new draw took place on February 16 through the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program.  Important requirements for the Alberta Express Entry stream are that candidates have