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Federal Express Entry Draw – January 8, 2020 The first Federal Express Entry Draw of 2020 occurred on January 8, 2020, increasing the Comprehensive Ranking Score (CRS) to 473 to receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA). A total of 3400 applicants received an ITA. The last draw of the year conducted on December 19, 2019, [...]
The new Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, a community-based pathway to Canadian Permanent Residence began accepting applications in November 2019 in 3 communities, including Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Alton/Rhineland, Manitoba. Thunder Bay will begin to accept applications from candidates starting on January 2, 2020. Brandon, Manitoba has also introduced its community [...]
Quebec Unveils a new "Values" test to be implemented as of January 1, 2020 for all new immigrants to the Province. The test must be taken within 60 days of your application for CSQ. The test will be 90 minutes long, with 60 minutes of "informative content". The actual test is an online, unsupervised format [...]
Saskatchewan EXPANDS its SINP Occupation in Demand (“OID”) list for the International Skilled Worker (“ISW”) Category. One of Canada’s most promising Provincial Nomination Programs (“PNP”) has just restructured its eligibility requirements. Saskatchewan, one of the few Province’s which does not require an employer job offer letter, has made changes to its most popular programs, the [...]
Canada has announced several in-demand occupations that are in short supply in certain Provinces. These may offer more avenues for permanent residency as a Provincial Nomination adds 600 points to your overall CRS points. https://www.ontario.ca/page/2019-ontario-immigrant-nominee-program-updates#section-1 Tech Draw Occupations Software engineers and designers Computer programmers and interactive media developers Computer engineers Web designers and developers Database [...]
For individuals without a Canadian Job offer, but are highly skilled in Saskatchewan’s Occupations in Demand, this PNP may be the right pathway for you; so long as you are willing and have the intent to relocate to Saskatchewan. Not the wrong choice for a Province that has the most sunshine than any other Province [...]
Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP) – Update – September 13, 2018 to November 2018 According to the Public Policy Forum report in November 2018, although more than 3000 job offers were made through the AIPP in 2018, approximately 1200 workers and their family members have been granted permanent residency. The backlog is largely due [...]
January 24, 2019 The Government of Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has introduced a new a five-year “Rural and Northern Immigration” Pilot Program to help smaller communities in Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Yukon) promote economic immigration needs. The program will welcome Foreign Nationals of various skill [...]
January 28, 2019 The U.S. Department of State has updated its Visa Bulletin for February 2019. This, in comparison to the Visa Bulletin for January 2019 does not show much movement on priority dates to file your I-485 adjustment of status application for Family-Based or Employment-Based petitions. China and India continue to have the most backlogs [...]
January 23, 2019 On January 23, 3019, The Government of Canada issued its second round of Express Entry Invitations where 3900 Skilled Workers received Invitations to Apply (“ITA”). The Comprehensive Ranking Scores (“CRS”) of the lowest-ranked candidates was 443. Candidates in the Express Entry Pool with scores of 443 prior to January 2, 2019 received ITA’s. [...]
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