On November 24, 2021, Canada held an Express Entry draw for the new immigrants. 613 new immigrants are invited to apply for permanent residence in Canada. The candidates will only receive an invitation to apply (ITA) if they are nominated under Provincial Nomination Program (PNP) program. Read More
Saskatchewan held largest Express Entry PNP draw for Canadian Permanent Residency: 633 immigrant candidates were invited for Saskatchewan Express Entry draw in its final invitation round on November 18. Approximately two months after the draw, the Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program (SINP) invited candidates to apply for two immigration streams. Of the invited people, 425 can be considered in the SINP subcategory “Express Entry “. “In-Demand Occupation” subcategory had 208. Also, the candidate with the lowest score in each subcategory scored 65 points in the Saskatchewan State of Interest (EOI) ranking system. Read More
1.8 million Canada Immigration Application delayed processing by IRCC: The IRCC Offices (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) immigration applications backlog is nearing 1.8 million. Data collected from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows the following number of applications at the IRCC inventory as of October 27, 2021 (numbers are rounded):
- 548,000 Permanent residence (corporate, family, refugee) application and humanitarian class application
- 776,000 applications for Temporary residence permits (temporary residence visa, work permit, visitor extension application, and study permit)
- 468,000 Applications for Canadian citizenship (as of October 26)
- 1,792,000 Total inventory application
Canadian citizenship is either offered naturally or by taking birth in Canada. There are many people who immigrate to Canada and are interested in getting Canadian citizenship. But a person has to be a permanent resident of Canada to get their Canadian citizenship. Read More
Canada introduced strict travel rules due to the rise in COVID variants: For business flights and passengers from places like India and Pakistan traveling is a ban so as to decrease the spread of COVID variants. As Canada has observed a surge in the COVID-19 cases that involves new variants, so on April 22, the federal government has announced that they will introduce strict travel rules and restrictions to stop the potential spread and protect the people who are living in Canada.
The Canadian government used to conduct an Express Entry draw approximately every two weeks. So it is predicted that the next Express Entry draw will be getting released soon on 30th April 2021. In the recent scenario, it is observed that there has been a trend is followed by the Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that is they are conducting the draw on the basis of dates that occurs about every 15 days. Read More
British Colombia so far in the year 2021 issued 3,441 invitations to the candidates so as to apply for Provincial nomination using Provincial Nomination programs (PNP) under various streams and categories. The candidates were issued invitations to different streams that are from the Express Entry BC (EEBC), Skills Immigration (SI), and the streams of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP).
On April 14, 2021, Canada held an Express Entry draw for the new immigrants. 266 new immigrants are invited to apply for permanent residence in Canada. The candidates will only receive an invitation to apply (ITA) if they are nominated under Provincial Nomination Program (PNP) program. Read More
If you are a resident of Canada and you want your spouse or the common-law partner to stay with you, you can sponsor your spouse from Hong Kong to Canada for Canadian citizenship. To apply for the sponsorship of your spouse you have to fulfill the required eligibility criteria. Read More
Recently, the Canadian immigration department has given some updates on the processing timelines during COVID so as to reflect the applicant’s operational capacity during the coronavirus pandemic. In the new update came from the Immigration Refugees Citizenship Canada (IRCC) gives a look into the status of application processing of several programs of immigration. IRCC recently has said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic the immigrants might get some time delay in the processing of their immigration applications.