Federal Self-Employed Workers

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) In January 2015, will launch a new electronic system called "Express Entry" Which will be replaced by today's known Federal Skilled Worker and some others. With this fast and efficient system, Canada would fulfill current and future labour market needs, and leads Canada to certain economic growth and long-term prosperity.

A majority of Canadians continue to hold positive views on key aspects of immigration and few see immigrants and refugees as a pressing national concern, a new Environics Institute survey has found.

Final Court decision on Federal SkiOttawa has suffered a major setback in eliminating its immigration backlog after the federal court ruled the citizenship and immigration Canada is obliged to process all applications it accepted into the system.

The pilot program was introduced in 2017 under Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the Global Talent Stream works to fast track work visa applications for eligible foreign workers with skills required by Canadian employers in fields such as Information Technology and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Canadians will head to the polls in October to elect a new federal government, which could bring ‎changes to Canada’s current immigration policies. ‎

As of December 15,2021 to February 2022 in the period of 2 months IRCC finalized 3583 applications of the economic class applicants for more than 25 different economic immigration programs, as follow:

Ottawa, April 18, 2013 —The list of 24 occupations that are eligible under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) when it re-opens on May 4, 2013 was released today.

As part of its commitment to support successful ‎newcomer settlement and integration, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada ‎‎(IRCC) has selected 824 projects that will deliver high quality services to newcomers ‎across the country for up to 5 years.‎

Canada has invited 3,350 Express Entry candidates to apply for Canadian permanent residence in a new draw held April 17th.
The cut-off score in today’s draw was 451.

Canada's population reached 37,314,442 on January 1, 2019

International entrepreneurs who wish to operate a business in Newfoundland and Labrador will have four more opportunities to submit an Expression of Interest in 2019.

NSNP also updates Entrepreneur and International Graduate Entrepreneur streams

The August 15 draw issued invitations to candidates from 10 ‎occupations including accountants, public relations managers, and ‎registered nurses‏

The Canadian pilot foreign credential recognition loan program is set to be made permanent.

Quebec Immigration recently announced that it intends to cap the intake of new applications in the Immigrant Investor, Self-Employed Worker and Entrepreneur programs in an attempt to reduce processing times. The Skilled Worker program will also be divided into two groups, one of which will have a cap. The decision is still pending approval by the National Assembly of Quebec and would be retroactive from March 21, 2012. The proposed caps are as follows:

May 22, 2019 – Quebec has tabled a draft regulation to establish a mandatory licence system aimed at personnel placement agencies and recruitment agencies for Temporary Foreign Workers(TFWs).

Employment rate among immigrants aged 25 to 54 hit 71 per cent last year

The coverage available to protected persons, refugee claimants and others through the Interim Federal Health Program is being reformed. The biggest change will be the ending of coverage to all beneficiaries for dental care, vision care, mobility assistive devices and pharmacy care other than medications and immunizations needed to treat a disease that poses a risk to public health or a condition of public saftey concern.
The changes take effect on June 30,2012

With the rejection rate for H-1B visa applications on the rise in the United States, highly skilled foreign workers who depend on them are turning to Canada in search of stability and new opportunities.

This is Part 4 of the CIC News series 'PNPs in Profile'‎