Immigration to Canada

The Government of Canada has invited 3,500 Express Entry candidates to apply for permanent residence in a draw that took place on April 25. The cut-off Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score for this draw was 441. Today’s draw is the second consecutive invitation round in which IRCC issued 3,500 Invitations to Apply (ITAs), tying the highest number of ITAs in a draw this year. Today’s total brings the number of ITAs issued by IRCC in 2018 to 24,500.

The Government of Canada has invited 2,750 candidates to apply for permanent residence in a new Express Entry draw that took place on Dec. 20, 2017. The cut-off Comprehensive Ranking System score for this draw was 446.

The Government of Canada has invited 3,000 Express Entry candidates with a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score of 442 to apply for Canadian permanent residence in a draw that took place February 7. The total of 3,000 Issued ITA represents an increase of 250 over each the previous six draws, all of which issued 2,750 ITAs.

3,796 candidates in the Express Entry selection pool received an invitation to apply for permanent residency On May 4,2017. Each invited candidate this time around had a 423 accumulated points or higher.

The latest Express Entry draw for immigration to Canada has taken place on October 18, and 2,757 candidates in the pool who had 436 points or more ,received an invitation to apply. There was a slight decrease in minimum points in comparison of previous draw . On October 5th minimum selected points was 438.

The number of points required to receive an invitation to apply to immigrate through Express Entry selection system has decreased to 433 in the latest draw from the pool, which took place on September 20, 2017.The previous draw, which took place on September 6, had a threshold of 435.

A new Express Entry draw held August 22 has issued a total of 3,750 invitations to apply for Canadian permanent residence. The minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score in this draw was 440. This is the third draw in 2018 to feature a minimum score of 440, which is the lowest CRS score drawn in 2018 to date. Both the minimum CRS score and the draw size in the August 22 were the same as the previous draw, held on August 8.

With travel restrictions still in place, Canada has clarified what types of trips are considered “essential” in order to gauge which travellers should be let into the country.

This latest draw targeted Express Entry candidates who had selected French as their first official language and have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) score of 8 or higher in French in all language abilities (reading, writing, listening and speaking).

British Columbia: Total of 309 invitations.

A new progress report on the Canadian province of Ontario’s immigration strategy shows software engineers and designers as the leading occupation category among provincial nominees in 2017 and India and China as the top two source countries.

On April 5, 2017, the province of British Columbia (BC) invited 458 workers and international graduates to apply to the British Colombia Programs (BC PNP). This most recent draw represents the biggest so far in 2017 to be conducted upon the five sub-categories.

Immigration is vital to the future of communities across the country, and nowhere more so than in Atlantic Canada. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot welcomed over 12,700 newcomers across the region, strengthening our communities and helping our businesses succeed. We announced the new permanent Atlantic Immigration Program, recognizing the need to build on this success as we continue to recover from the pandemic and address labour shortages across Atlantic Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced that there will be a legal action against people who have obtained permanent residency of Canada through fake marriage. According to the Minister the penalty of abusing our immigration system and act of fraudulent marriage is revocation of status.

In less than two years since the new process started, the federal government has stripped the citizenship of 235 Canadians.

“There are elements that are positive in the bill,” Liberal Dominique Anglade says. But "there are elements that are very detrimental."

Only one week since being formally sworn in , the Canadian government revealed important immigration policy changes and confirming that Syrian refugees will dominate the storyline for the rest of the year.

One week before the election, the Liberal Party retakes a slight lead over the Conservatives.

The federal immigration department has said it will be accepting the same number of applications this year as it did in 2015 from parents and grandparents wanting to join family members in Canada, despite a Liberal election promise to double the intake “immediately.”

Canadian Citizenship exam study guide will go through many changes . The draft of guide is under review and it shows that the government plans on overhauling the book used by prospective Canadians in preparation for the exam.