Canada’s immigration minister list of priorities prior to winter 2022

The followings are the priority list of jobs that the immigration minister is committed to complete prior to winter:

1) Canada is committed to welcoming at least 40,000 Afghan refugees. Since August 2021, about 16,370 Afghans have come to Canada. For Ukrainians fleeing from the war in Ukraine, Canada has introduced the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET). This allows Ukrainians to come to Canada temporarily. So far, 55,488 Ukrainians have landed in Canada since January 1, 2022.

2) returning the application processing to the service standard. Following the pandemic, IRCC’s inventory across all lines of business has grown to about 2.4 million persons.

3) Employment Mobility Pathways Pilot, which allows refugee candidates who appear to have the potential to succeed in the Canadian labour market to apply under an economic immigration program.

Employment Mobility Pathways Pilot has the potential to change the way the world thinks about refugees, not as people who are in need of charity, but as people who arrive with a lot more than the contents of their suitcase.

4) Undocumented workers who have contributed to Canada over an extended period of time should be allowed to have status. He said, " we are going to continue digging on a policy to amend measures on implied status to certain people who have been here for a lengthy period of time.”

5) Raise the annual selection cap to 500000 immigrants

6) Reforming the NOC system and Express Entry eligibility criteria by November 2022

7) creating a new PR pathway for temporary residents by September 2022

The minister has no date set to waive Canadian citizenship application fees. It seems it takes longer to see the announcement of waiving the Citizenship fee which was promised by liberals prior to election.

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