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Canada Pauses Skilled Worker and Investor Immigration Programmes

Canada Pauses Skilled Worker and Investor Immigration Programmes

Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has announced that effective July 1st, 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada will place a temporary pause on new applications to the Federal Skilled Worker Program  and federal Immigrant Investor Program. While announcing the changes the Minister said, “We have been making lots of changes to our economic immigration [...]

Canada Skilled Worker Immigration Quota to Reset on July 1

Canada has the limited the number of foreign nationals who can apply for Canadian permanent residence under the Federal Skilled Worker class by fixing the maximum number of applications each year without requiring to obtain approved job offer from Canadian employers. The quota for the year 2012-2013 will be reset on July 1, 2012. The [...]

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British Columbia’s provincial government blames the shortage of skilled labour as the major constrain in economic growth and wants higher share of skilled migrants from the Canadian federal government.  The quota of skilled migrants to a Canadian province under the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) each year is set by the federal government. British Columbia has [...]

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Canada Federal Court Judge has refused to grant an injunction to force Canada Citizenship and Immigration Minister to process immigration applications set to be abolished by the Federal Budget Bill. Mr. Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance had earlier announced in the Federal Budget Bill the decision of returning all applications made before the date of [...]

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Canada Wants an Efficient and Effective Canadian Immigration System

Canadian Minister for Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, has summarized his proposed changes to make the Canadian immigration system more effective and efficient. He said, “Canada is looking for workers who can fill our labour market needs now. My vision for the immigration system is one that can get immigrants here with a job offer [...]

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Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has announced that Citizenship and Immigration Canada will create a pool of Skilled workers allowing the employers to hand pick the applicants for priority processing. Mr. Kenney said,“As the Prime Minister has stated, the Government of Canada is committed to making economic and labour force needs the central [...]

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Canada plans to make it easier for skilled tradespersons to become permanent residents in order to fill the ever growing gap between the jobs and available labour to take those jobs in construction, natural resources and similar industries. While announcing its government’s intentions to transform Canada’s immigration system into a flexible and fast system that [...]

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A new proposal by Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney could change the way immigrant skills are assessed by the government. The new proposal would require applicants applying as Federal Skilled Workers to have their credentials assessed and verified before they even apply for Canadian immigration. There are roughly 250,000 new arrivals in Canada [...]

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Canada’s government has decided to offer large number of skilled visas this year to strengthen the country’s economy. The Canadian Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney raveled that they are looking forward to change the immigration policies, which will give an opportunity to skilled workers to migrate in the country. Meanwhile, Kenney said that the Canadian government [...]

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