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Exactly 2 weeks after their most recent draw, the Government of Canada announced their 138th Express Entry Draw on March 4, 2020, where 3900 Invitations to Apply (ITA) were issued. This was a significant drop from the last draw where 4500 ITA’s were issued. The minimum CRS increased slightly to 471. If you are ready [...]
The BC PNP issued 80 Invitations to Apply (ITA) on March 3, 2020 under the Tech Pilot to applicants with job offers in the 29 key technology occupations. Applicants had minimum scores of 90 under BC’s eligibility criteria. The BC PNP Tech Pilot is extended to June 2020. Although BC is experiencing significant labour shortage [...]
The SINP International Skilled Workers (ISW) conducted a draw on February 27, 2020. For this draw, EOI were issued to those with scores on 69 on Saskatchewan’s selection grid. A total of 576 applicants were chosen, with 301 from the Express Entry (EE) Pool and 275 from the Occupations in Demand (OID) pool. Both the [...]
The H-1B registration process has begun accepting applications as of March 1st at 12pm, which will run through to March 20, 2020. The H-1B category is the temporary worker path in the U.S. that allows Skilled Foreign nationals to remain in the U.S. and work for a period of 6 years. Unfortunately, this is an [...]
President Trump's proclamation expanding the travel ban (often referred to as the “Muslim Ban”) to nationals from Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania into the U.S. goes into effect on February 21, 2020. The travel ban has said to distinctively target predominately Muslim countries including Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, but with the inclusion of Venezuela [...]
In a monumental, historical draw, the Government of Canada issued 4500 Invitations under its 137th Express Entry draw on February 19, 2020. So far, there have been 3 draws in 2020 (January 8th, January 22nd, and February 5th) where the average draw has been 3400 invitations. The minimum CRS score for the latest draw was [...]
A total of 486 Notifications of Interest (NOI) were issued to candidates by the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) under the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities (HCP) Stream. This is the second Targeted Draw of 2020. Candidates with CRS scores between 467-471 and work experience in one of the 10 in-demand occupations (Financial Managers, Other [...]
The MPNP conducted a second draw of the year on February 13, 2020 (only two weeks since the last draw), issuing 242 Letters of Advice (LOA) to candidates in the International Education Stream (IES), Skilled Workers in Manitoba (SWM) and Skilled Workers Overseas (SWO). Of the 242 Invitations, 15 were issued for those with a [...]
Saskatchewan’s SINP issued 646 Expression of Interest (EOI) in their 3rd draw of 2020 held on February 13, 2020. Of the 646, 277 candidates were selected from the Express Entry Pool and 369 were selected from the Occupations in Demand category. Both these categories were high-skilled occupations, excluding the SINP Excluded Occupation List. The SINP [...]
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