Workers recruited to fill ‘good-paying’ jobs with local logging operations in and around the Village of Chipman A shortage of skilled labour in the province of New Brunswick has led the J.D. Irving company and the Village of Chipman to take a unique step to help much-needed foreign workers and their families get settled. With […]
Popular stream was to accept 1,000 registrations when it reopened March 5 Ontario’s Masters Graduate Stream reopened briefly to new registrations on Tuesday, March 5, and closed again within two hours due to a “technical issue.” Ontario had announced the previous day that the popular stream would open to 1,000 registrations on a first-come, first-served […]
Express Entry candidates among 403 people invited in March 1 draw The province of Manitoba held its third Expression of Interest draw in less than three weeks on March 1, inviting 403 immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination for Canadian permanent residence. The invitations brought the number issued so far this year by […]
Key changes also introduced to increasingly popular pathway to permanent residence Canada is extending its Atlantic Immigration Pilot to December 2021 in a bid to maintain the program’s momentum, the federal government has announced. Launched in 2017 for an initial three-year run, the Atlantic Immigration Pilot (AIP) was created to address labour shortages in the provinces of […]
H1-B crackdown in U.S. leading many Indian students to apply to Canadian schools instead 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 […]
United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney lays out immigration platform for coming spring election 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 […]
February 27 draw through Saskatchewan’s Express Entry immigration sub-category issued 83 invitations to apply for a provincial nomination 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 […]
Interim pathway for caregivers who came to Canada after November 30, 2014, opens March 4 for three months 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, […]
Express Entry candidates among 199 immigration candidates invited to apply for a provincial nomination in February 21 draw The province of Prince Edward Island has invited 199 economic immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination for permanent residence in a draw held February 21. The invitations more than doubled the 91 issued in the […]
Express Entry candidates among the 338 immigration candidates invited February 21 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 […]