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Ontario invited 754 Express Entry candidates to apply for a provincial nomination on March 2. Invited candidates had profiles in the Express Entry system with Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) scores between 463 and 467. The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) invited candidates who may be eligible for the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream (HCP). This Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) gives foreign workers the opportunity to launch their careers in Ontario, and make Canada’...

Portuguese failing to gain permanent residency in Canada Lack of higher education and poor English or French skills "are the main factors that lead Portuguese people" to fail to obtain permanent residence in Canada. “One of the difficulties that the Portuguese have had, which leads them to not be eligible for immigration programs is because they do not have a high level of education and their level of English or French is very low. This is the biggest problem,” said immigration consultant R...

  VANCOUVER -- An unprecedented number of people have recently been invited to apply for permanent residency in Canada through a program aimed at attracting skilled workers, following a year that saw immigration numbers plummet during the pandemic. About 27,300 people received an invitation to apply through an online system called Express Entry on Feb. 13. Eligible candidates have at least one year of Canadian work experience and meet English or French language requirements set by the gover...

While the drop in immigration to Canada was felt across the country in 2020, early signs suggest that most provinces will see their intakes recover by the end of this year. The coronavirus pandemic caused immigration to Canada to fall to the lowest level since 1998 last year. As a result, Canada welcomed just over 184,000 new immigrants, well short of the 341,000 newcomers it was seeking to welcome in 2020. Canada got off to a strong start in 2020 before travel restrictions and other COVID-19 d...

An increasing number of people are now looking at immigration for a better life Covid-19 has led people to explore immigration options in countries with benefits such as free healthcare and education Image Credit: Shutterstock The era of Covid-19 upended life as we know it, with no sector left unaltered. In the case of immigration, the pandemic gave people all over the world the opportunity to pause for a while and analyse their lives — and in many cases this l...

Saskatchewan held a new draw on February 25, inviting candidates to apply for a provincial nomination for Canadian permanent residence. Candidates needed an Expression of Interest (EOI) score of at least 70 in order to be invited. They also needed work experience in one of the 70 in-demand occupations listed on the government webpage. Some of the eligible occupations include medical administrative assistants, retail and wholesale buyers, and geological engineers among others. The SINP uses the...

GOVERNMENTS around the world are becoming more aggressive because of the new COVID-19 var...

British Columbia invited 87 immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination for permanent residence on February 23. Invited candidates who were from the Skilled Worker and International Graduate subcategories needed a minimum provincial score of 75, which is five points lower than the previous Tech Pilot-specific draws of 2021. Tech Pilot candidates are invited to apply for a provincial nomination weekly. Invited candidates have 30 calendar days to apply for the nomination. The B...

Applying for Canada’s Start-Up Visa from the United Arab Emirates: All You Need To Know Many tech start-ups in the United Arab Emirates could expand and gain even greater access to Canadian markets through the Canada’s  Start-Up Visa program. “Funding that went into United Arab Emirates (UAE) tech companies grew 10 times in just two years, to US-$1 billion in 2016, and 2017 has been a record year for exits,” stated the authors of the Google-commissioned Tech entrepreneurs...

EP.09 - Crossing Over Seas featuring Rachel Dance?l? 11:00am - 12:25pm Welcome back to Filipino Fridays – This episode digs deep on what it takes to make the move and move abroad. As seen on Candy Magazine and Femalenetwork.com in the Philippines, Youtube and TikTok superstar Rachel Dancel joins us to talk about the steps she took in fulfilling her dream of immigrating to Canada. Since arriving to Vancouver in 2017, Rachel completed her studies in Communication Design and now dedicates her ti...