Canada caps off the year with 107,350 invitations issued to the candidates in the Express Entry pool. The cut-off for the latest draw held on December 23 was lower than the last two rounds. Around 5,000 invitations were sent to candidates with a minimum score of 468. The new CRS requirement is just slightly lower […]

Ontario issued more than 8,000 nominations to immigration applicants in 2020, which was much more than filling the number of spots the province was supposed to. The federal government had originally given 7,600 provincial nomination for the Ontario Immigration Nominee Program (OINP) and out of those 61,000 that were expected to be invited through the Provincial […]

Canada has recently updated and added new Designated Learning Institutions (DLI’s) to its approval list for the international students who wish to study in Canada during the Covid-19. A DLI is a school, university or college which hosts the international students to come and study at their campuses. Canada had earlier introduced travel restrictions to […]

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) notified that it will delay the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) 2020 immigration lottery’s next round until early 2021. The lottery was supposed to take place by the end of December 2020, but a number of factors which includes the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a delay. IRCC had started the […]

Express Entry: 5,000 invited in new draw Canada surpassed 100,000 Invitations to apply (ITA’s)in 2020, an unprecedented number of new invitations. Canada invited 5,000 ne immigration applicants to apply for permanent residence in its new Express Entry draw which took place on December 9. All the candidates invited were supposed to have a Comprehensive Ranking […]

Canada’s immigration minister Marco Mendicino appeared before the Standing Committee for a study on the effect of Covid-19 on Canada’s immigration system. Marco Mendicino attended the November 25 meeting along with the Deputy Minister for IRCC, Catrina Tapley. They answered questions from members of parliament on the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration with the help […]

Canada will from now on confirm the permanent resident status for an applicant without in-person interviews through a new portal, for most cases. This new electronic process will expedite the landing process for new permanent residents. This new measure has been implemented as part of a coronavirus measure. Canada’s immigration minister, Marco Mendicino, has said […]

The Atlantic provinceNewfoundland and Labrador released new steps that will make it easy for the employers to hire people from foreign countries who will compensate for the labour shortages in the province through the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) and in the end help the foreign nationals to migrate to Canada. The province has given out an occupation […]

The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot for Vernon-North Okanagan is making few requirements easy in order to allow the employers to hire more employees starting December 1. The pilot has been first introduced in February 2020, and it has till now received 21 applications, out of which 19 were accepted. The RNIP program for Vernon-North Okanagan started out with […]

Saskatchewan’s latest draw of nominations took place on December 1, 2020. The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) in its latest draw has invited candidates from the International Skilled Worker category through two subcategories i.e. Express Entry, and Occupations In-Demand. They invited a total of 564 immigrants who had work experience in select occupations. 138 candidates were invited through the Express […]