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Up to 400,000 new permanent residents expected in Canada in 2021 Image Credit: Supplied
Definitely 2020 didn’t resemble with any other year that we lived, and expectations and plans didn’t go exactly as we imaged, but we all learned that a plan B could be the best investment that we could do for ourselves and our families. 2021 still looks challenging but what options do we have as plan B?
2021 - TRENDS IN IMMIGRATION
Great news from Canada: Over 400,000 new permanent residents are expected in 2021
On October 30, 2020, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino released Canada’s Immigration Level Plans for 2021-2023. Until 2023 Canada is planning to welcome 1,233,000 new permanent residents in an effort to bust the economy and recover from the impact of COVID-19 but also balance the potentially negative fiscal impacts shaped by Canada’s aging population and low birth rate.
Refugees in Canada share recipes and tastes of home in new digital cookbook
A new cookbook from the UN Refugee Agency in Canada shares recipes from refugees who have made Canada their home highlighting the tastes and aromas that connect them to the homes they left behind.
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Posted: Jan 08, 2021 3:15 PM ET | Last Updated: January 8
Aya Wadi is a refugee from Syria who has settled in Canada. In a new cookbook, she shares her grandmother s recipe for date-filled cookies known as ma amoul.(Deirdre Doyle/UNHCR, David Jackson/UNHCR)
But she s still waiting to reunite with her family. It s been months and months and months and months, Parker, who lives in Blandford, told CBC Radio s
Information Morning on Wednesday.
Her daughter-in-law, Anna, is from Namibia and not a Canadian citizen, so she requires a temporary resident visa to come to Canada.
Biometrics causing delay
The problem is that she needs to submit biometrics, such as an electronic fingerprint, in order to complete that application.
She can t do that anywhere in Namibia and would need to travel to the Canadian embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.
Parker wants the Canadian government to waive the biometric requirement and allow her daughter-in-law to complete that step once she arrives in Nova Scotia, where she s visited twice before.