Canadian universities are experiencing a surge in the number of international students from India, who now outnumber Chinese students.  Statistics provided to the Globe and Mail newspaper by the Canadian High Commission in India show that 172,000 Indian citizens held a Canadian study permit in 2018 compared to 142,000 from China. The Globe and Mail […]

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Rural communities around Alberta could get a boost of around 40,000 newcomers over the next four years under policies being proposed by the province’s United Conservative Party.   Albertans will vote for a new provincial government this spring and a number of polls have shown the United Conservative Party (UCP) and its leader, Jason Kenney, leading […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. Quebec Premier François Legault addressed his government’s controversial move to dismiss a backlog of 18,000 pending skilled worker applications Thursday, saying the province will prioritize 3,700 applications from candidates already working in the province on temporary permits.  Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government was hit with a 10-day […]

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Jeudi, le premier ministre de la province du Québec François Legault a abordé la mesure controversée d’annuler 18,000 demandes en inventaire du programme régulier des travailleurs qualifiés. Il a annoncé que la province priorisera 3,700 demandes parmi les candidats travaillant déjà dans la province en vertu d’un visa de résidence temporaire. Plus tôt cette semaine, […]

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Saskatchewan has invited 83 Express Entry candidates to apply for a provincial nomination for Canadian permanent residence in a draw held February 27.   Those invited had an Expression of Interest, or EOI, registered under Saskatchewan’s International Skilled Worker Express Entry sub-category, which allows the province to nominate candidates in the federal Express Entry system for Canadian […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. Foreign caregivers who came to Canada after November 30, 2014, and did not qualify for Canadian permanent residence may now have another opportunity to do so through a new interim pathway that comes into effect March 4, 2019, and will remain open until June 4, 2019.    […]

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Les aides familiaux qui sont arrivés au Canada après le 30 novembre 2014 et qui ne se qualifiaient pas pour la résidence permanente auront maintenant une autre opportunité de l’obtenir par le biais de la voie d’accès provisoire qui entrera en vigueur le 4 mars 2019 et restera ouverte jusqu’au 4 juin 2019. Le gouvernement […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. A  Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered the provincial government to continue processing a backlog of around 18,000 pending applications to the Quebec Skilled Worker Program that the government wants to cancel.   The ruling by Justice Frédéric Bachand granted a 10-day temporary injunction in response to arguments […]

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Un juge de la Cour supérieure du Québec a ordonné au gouvernement provincial de continuer à traiter les 18,000 demandes en inventaire du programme régulier des travailleurs qualifiés que celui-ci voulait dissoudre. La décision par le juge Frédéric Bachand donne une injonction temporaire de 10 jours en réponse aux arguments d’un groupe d’avocats en droit […]

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Ontario issued 6,850 nominations for Canadian permanent residence in 2018 with nearly half going to candidates in the federal Express Entry system, a new report by the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program shows.   Known as the OINP, the program allows Ontario to nominate a set number of economic immigration candidates each year for Canadian permanent residence. The […]

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Manitoba has invited another 338 Skilled Workers Overseas candidates in the province’s second draw through the popular stream in six days.   An unspecified number of Express Entry candidates were among the Skilled Workers Overseas candidates invited in the February 21 draw, which brought the number of invitations issued by the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP) so far […]

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The province of Prince Edward Island has invited 199 economic immigration candidates to apply in a draw held February 21.  The invitations more than doubled the 91 issued in the province’s January draw. A total of 170 candidates in Prince Edward Island (PEI)’s Express Entry and Labour Impact categories received invitations in the February 21 draw. […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. An immigration lawyers’ group is seeking a court order that would force Quebec’s government to continue processing backlogged applications to the Quebec Skilled Worker Program.   The province’s Coalition Avenir Québec government proposed terminating the backlog of around 18,000 pending applications in legislation tabled February 7. The legislation, known […]

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Un groupe d’avocats en droit de l’immigration a demandé une ordonnance du tribunal forçant le gouvernement du Québec à continuer le traitement des demandes en cours du programme régulier des travailleurs qualifiés. En vertu du projet de loi du 7 février, le gouvernement de la province, Coalition Avenir Québec a proposé l’annulation des 18,000 demandes […]

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The Government of Canada has issued 3,350 invitations to apply for Canadian permanent residence to candidates in the Express Entry system in a draw held February 20.   Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has now issued a total of 14,500 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) in 2019, which remains the biggest start to a year since […]

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Canada’s provincial nominee programs have been active over the past few weeks, with invitation rounds taking place in Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario.   Combined, the three provinces have issued more than 900 invitations to apply for a provincial nomination for permanent residence since the start of February. Many of these invitations were issued through so-called “enhanced” […]

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Manitoba issued new invitations to apply for a provincial nomination for permanent residence on February 15 to eligible skilled workers and international students who have expressed their interest in immigrating to the province.   The draw was the province’s third of 2019 and issued 444 invitations to candidates in the Skilled Workers Overseas, Skilled Workers in […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. More than 91,000 immigration candidates have submitted expressions of interest through Quebec’s online Arrima portal since it opened last September — a six-month period dominated by the rise of the province’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government.   The Arrima portal was introduced September 18, 2018, to manage profiles submitted to […]

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Plus de 91,000 candidats à l’immigration ont soumis leur déclaration d’intérêt par le biais du nouveau portail Arrima depuis son ouverture en septembre dernier – une période de 6 mois marquée par l’ascension au pouvoir du nouveau gouvernement de la province, Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). Le 18 septembre 2018, le gouvernement libéral a introduit le […]

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Nova Scotia welcomed a record 5,970 new permanent residents last year, the provincial government has announced.   The 2018 total was a gain of nearly 500 over the previous record of 5,485 set in 2016. The province’s Office of Immigration said more than 65 per cent of the new permanent resident landings in 2018 were approved through the […]

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Pour lire cet article en français, cliquez ici. International students hoping to remain in Canada on a Post-Graduation Work Permit now have six months to apply once they obtain their notice of graduation and are no longer required to have a valid study permit.   The Government of Canada announced the changes on Thursday, February 14, […]

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Les étudiants étrangers espérant rester au Canada en vertu d’un permis de travail post-diplôme ont maintenant six mois pour présenter une demande dès qu’ils reçoivent leur avis officiel d’obtention du diplôme et n’ont plus besoin d’être en possession d’un permis d’études valide.   Les changements et modifications apportés à ce programme convoité ont été annoncés […]

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Candidates who enter the Express Entry pool may find themselves on the receiving end of an invitation to apply for a provincial nomination without even trying thanks to specialized immigration streams in Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia.  These streams have recently been used to search the Express Entry pool for candidates who meet specified criteria […]

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