Under its Immigration Levels Plan, the Canadian government aims to welcome over 400,000 new permanent residents to the country each year. As Canada’s greatest source of new permanent residents, India continues to be an important partner in reaching this goal. In 2019, before COVID-19 disrupted immigration, one-quarter of all new Canadian immigrants arrived from India. If immigration […]

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Do you want to immigrate to Canada as a skilled worker? In 1967, Canada introduced the world’s first ever objective points system to assess whether immigration candidates could successfully integrate into the Canadian labour market. This was done through the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) which continues to be one of Canada’s most prominent immigration […]

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Quebec invited 536 immigration candidates to apply for permanent selection on September 30. This is the second round of invitations held in September under the Quebec Regular Skilled Worker Program (QSWP). Candidates who received invitations to apply for permanent selection by the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) in the latest […]

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Québec a invité 536 personnes candidates à présenter une demande de sélection permanente le 30 septembre. Il s’agit de la deuxième ronde d’invitations tenue en septembre dans le cadre du Programme régulier des travailleurs qualifiés du Québec (PRTQ). Le ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) a invité les personnes candidates dans […]

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An internal memo reveals how IRCC is spending its $1.7 billion settlement budget during the 2021-22 Canadian government fiscal year (April 1 until March 31). CIC News obtained the memo via an access to information request to the Canadian government. One of the more noteworthy aspects of the memo is how the Department of Immigration, […]

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Canada wants new permanent residents (PRs) — in fact, more than a million of them. Nearly 60 per cent of these new arrivals will come to Canada as skilled workers. Express Entry is the main way that Canada processes skilled worker applications. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) released its most recent Immigration Levels Plan […]

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our work. Some of us had to transition to working from home, and others lost their jobs or saw their hours reduced because of public health measures in place. The Canadian government released a study about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the labour market in New Brunswick. While some jobs were negatively affected by the pandemic, other jobs saw an […]

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Canada’s Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP) issued nearly 6,500 invitations to apply for provincial nomination during the month of September. Nearly every Canadian province and territory, except Quebec and Nunavut, operates its own Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). Having their own immigration programs allows provincial governments to select the most suitable candidates to meet their local labour […]

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