Eligibility criteria changed for Canadian Experience Class Winnipeg, April 16, 2012 — To meet Canada’s labour market needs more quickly, highly-skilled temporary foreign workers could soon transition to permanent residence faster than before, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced…
Category: Federal Skilled Worker Program
Pre-2008 Federal Skill Worker Applications in Backlog Will Be Wiped Out
Now it is final: Those federal skilled worker applications submitted before February 27, 2008 still in the queue will never be processed. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says that this is necessary because Canada’s economy needs have changed and…
Minister Kenney outlines vision of a fast and flexible immigration system
Toronto, March 1, 2012 – In a keynote address to the National Metropolis Conference today, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney outlined his vision for a faster, more responsive immigration system that better meets Canada’s economic needs. “Immigration is playing…
10 most important immigration policy changes in 2011
There are many changes, expected or unexpected, with respect to Canadian immigration in 2011. While some of the changes like super visa will facilitate some people’s entry to Canada, most are to fight immigration fraud and to limit immigration to…
Live-in caregivers made to work longer to earn status; Ottawa faces legal challenge over backlogged immigrant visa applications
Live-in caregivers made to work longer to earn status: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1092211 Ottawa faces legal challenge over backlogged immigrant visa applications: http://www.thestar.com/iphone/news/article/1091558–ottawa-faces-legal-challenge-over-backlogged-immigrant-visa-applications
Ph.D Students Eligible for Federal Skilled Worker Program
Ottawa, November 2, 2011 — Canada intends to accept up to 1,000 international PhD students per year as permanent residents through the Federal Skilled Worker Program, Minister of State (Science and Technology) Gary Goodyear announced today, on behalf of Citizenship, Immigration…
Cut immigration applications to fix backlog: Is this our only option?
Cut immigration applications to fix backlog? This is what Jason Kenny, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada said to the House committee on citizenship and immigration recently. (For a detailed report on this, follow http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/10/20/pol-kenney-immigration-cut-applications.html) I am saddened each time I hear…
Restaurant and food service manager: Halfway toward skilled worker cap
As of October 11, 2011, CIC has received a total of 2,768 eligible federal skilled worker applications. For National Occupation Classification (NOC) # 0631, 260 applications have been received, that is more than halfway toward the 500 cap on the…
Strong Canadian immigration interest is a ‘big, good problem’: Kenney
http://www.torontoobserver.ca/2011/10/06/strong-canadian-immigration-interest-is-a-big-good-problem-kenney/
Cap reached for skilled worker NOC #1122
As of August 22, 2011, CIC received 1,296 eligible federal skilled worker applications for processing for the year between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. While this number is only around one tenth of the quota for all federal…