admin, Author at Aviraj Immigration

February 2, 2023

𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬,

𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫

Housing and Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen says Canada needs to bring in more foreign nationals to work in the building trades to fill jobs going begging for a lack of workers as Baby Boomers retire out of the workforce.

“We know there is over a million jobs in Canada that remain unfilled, so we need immigrants, skilled immigrants, to come in and help us fill those unfilled jobs and help us grow our economy,” Hussen reportedly told Global News in a year-end interview. “In addition to that, the irony is we actually need more people, skilled immigrants, to also help us in the building trades and the construction sector of our economy. We need those workers to actually come in and help us build the housing that Canadians need.”

Economists split on the impact of high immigration levels on housing costs in Canada

The housing and diversity and inclusion minister’s call for even more skilled immigrants to be allowed to immigrate to Canada comes in the wake of worries expressed by some Canadians that record-high levels of immigration are fuelling inflation in the country and exacerbating housing shortages.

“Mass immigration doesn’t make us richer,” tweeted People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier in late December.

“It doesn’t solve manpower and aging problems. And it worsens housing and healthcare shortages. Serious economists understand this.”

Economists have actually split on the impact of high immigration to Canada fuelling increases in house prices.

While some agree the increase in Canada’s population due to immigration drives up demand and pushes up housing prices, others claim the worry that immigrants in and of themselves will drive up housing prices in Canada is largely unfounded.

At the Urban Analytics Institute of Toronto Metropolitan University, director Murtaza Haider has reportedly told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that immigrants are not much of a pressure on the housing market.

“Most new immigrants … would not have cash or enough savings to go and start buying homes,” Haider reportedly said. “I don’t expect them to exert pressure on housing prices as much, but more so on the rental demand.

Canada had 959,600 job vacancies in the third quarter of 2022

“My guess is that most new immigrants will … not have cash or enough savings to go and start buying homes.”

In its 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan, Ottawa has set the target for 2023 at 465,000 new permanent residents. The country will welcome 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024 and another 500,000 in 2025.

That’s a total of 1.45 million immigrants to Canada over the coming three years.

Those newcomers to Canada could make a big dent in the country’s acute labour shortage, including in the number of jobs in the building trades that are vacant.

In its latest quarterly report, Statistics Canada noted 959,600 job vacancies in the third quarter of 2022, 8.3 per cent higher than in the third quarter of 2021 and 72.7 per cent higher than in the first quarter of 2020.

Among those job vacancies are 38,905 construction jobs advertised on the Indeed job-hunting website in late December. The Jobbank government-run job-hunting website rates the employment prospects for construction workers as good in most Canadian provinces for the next few years.

February 2, 2023

ᴬᵗˡᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜ ᴵᵐᵐⁱᵍʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᴾʳᵒᵍʳᵃᵐ ⁱˢ ᵇᵒᵒˢᵗⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᵐᵐⁱᵍʳᵃⁿᵗ ʳᵉᵗᵉⁿᵗⁱᵒⁿ ʳᵃᵗᵉ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵒᵘʳ ᴬᵗˡᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜ ᵖʳᵒᵛⁱⁿᶜᵉˢ

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ᴬᵗˡᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜ ᴵᵐᵐⁱᵍʳᵃᵗⁱᵒⁿ ᴾʳᵒᵍʳᵃᵐ ⁱˢ ᵇᵒᵒˢᵗⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᵐᵐⁱᵍʳᵃⁿᵗ ʳᵉᵗᵉⁿᵗⁱᵒⁿ ʳᵃᵗᵉ ⁱⁿ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵒᵘʳ ᴬᵗˡᵃⁿᵗⁱᶜ ᵖʳᵒᵛⁱⁿᶜᵉˢ8

Atlantic Canada is retaining more of its immigrants since launching the pilot program five years ago that became the Atlantic Immigration Program (AIP) in 2022, reveals Statistics Canada data. “Three years into the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), the one-year retention rate of skilled workers and skilled trades categories had risen substantially in all Atlantic provinces,” notes Statistics Canada.

“However, such trends were not observed in most other provinces during the same period.”

Nova Scotia enjoys the most significant increase in the immigration retention rate

Nova Scotia enjoyed the most significant bump in its retention rate. The one-year retention rate of immigrants admitted in that province as skilled workers and skilled tradespersons in 2019, at 67.6 per cent, was more than three times higher than that of those admitted in 2016, at 21.5 per cent, before the AIPP was introduced.

“New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador’s one-year retention rates were also notably higher, each increasing by about 22 percentage points in four years,” notes the statistical and demographic services agency.

Prince Edward Island had the lowest five-year retention rate but the largest increase among recent arrivals.

Launched in 2017 in response to the low retention rates and the shrinking labour force in the Atlantic provinces, the AIPP recruits skilled foreign workers and international graduates and sees employers work with settlement service provider organizations to boost the retention of immigrants and their families.

Using the 2021 Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) released in early December, Statistics Canada has painted a picture of which provinces best managed to hang onto immigrants who settle there.

“Among immigrants admitted from 2010 to 2015, those who intended to reside in Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta were the most likely to stay in those provinces five years after their arrival,” notes Statistics Canada.

“The five-year retention rates of these three provinces were relatively consistent over time, with the exception of Alberta, where there was a drop from 88.9 per cent among immigrants who arrived in 2014 to 84.5 per cent among those who arrived in 2015.”

In Manitoba and Saskatchewan, provincial governments had a tougher time retaining immigrants.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan saw drops in their immigrant retention rates

“Both provinces’ retention rates decreased by more than 10 percentage points from the 2010 admission cohort to 2015,” noted Statistics Canada.

A good predictor of a province’s ability to hang onto its immigrants is the level of previous work experience of its newcomers. International students are the most likely to move out of a province but those who come to a province for a job are likely to stay.

“Among those admitted from 2010 to 2015 and who only had a work permit prior to admission, over 89 per cent filed taxes in their province or territory of admission five years after admission,” reports Statistics Canada.

“In contrast, those who only had a study permit prior to admission had the lowest provincial retention rates. The retention rate of this group was 82.5 per cent among those admitted in 2010 and fell to 74.7 per cent among those admitted in 2015.”

Those immigrants coming to Canada through family sponsorship programs were the most likely to stay put.

“Among immigrants admitted in 2010, 92.6 per cent of those sponsored by family remained in their province or territory of admission five years after admission, compared with 92.3 per cent among those admitted in 2015,” noted Statistics Canada.

“The five-year provincial retention rate of refugees was 86.1 per cent among the 2010 admission cohort and increased slightly to 87.4 per cent among that of 2015.”

February 2, 2023

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐭.

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𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐭.

A temporary public policy has been issued to allow certain temporary residents in Canada with a visitor status to apply for a work permit from within Canada. While all visitors in Canada can apply for an employer-specific work permit under the public policy, only those who held a work permit in the last 12 months may request interim authorization to work.

The public policy came into effect on August 24, 2020, and the eligibility criteria were expanded to allow all visitors who are in Canada with valid temporary resident status to apply inland for an employer-specific work permit, regardless of when they arrived in Canada.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑.

February 2, 2023

𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝟒𝟑𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬.

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𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝟒𝟑𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬.

Canada reached its historic target of 431,645 new immigrants in 2022, the federal government revealed on last week.

Without giving an exact figure, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) only said that it reached the target laid out in the Immigration Levels Plan for last year.

The number surpasses the record of more than 405,000 newcomers welcomed in 2021. IRCC also plans to break the record in each of the next three years, according to the 2023 to 2025 Immigration Levels Plan released in November.

February 2, 2023

𝙄𝙍𝘾𝘾 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙏𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝟐 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨.

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𝙄𝙍𝘾𝘾 𝘼𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙏𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝟐 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨.

What’s New?

Previously, the spouses were only eligible for a work permit if the primary applicant was working in a high-skill occupation, for example, a job coming under TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3. However, now work permit holders working in any skill levels (TEER 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) can apply for spousal open work permit for their spouses. Furthermore, they can also apply for an open work permit.

January 30, 2023

IRCC processed all-time high 4.8 million applications in 2022

By admin Immigration

IRCC processed all-time high 4.8 million applications in 2022
Combining new applications processed with the reduction in Canada’s immigration application backlog, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has processed a record-breaking 4.8 million total applications this year.
The record-high number of applications processed by IRCC in 2022 is a result of several factors.
Chief among these factors would be IRCC’s efforts to reduce the country’s immigration application backlog, which stood at approximately 2.67 million just six months ago (July 15-17, 2022). According to the latest data provided by IRCC, the backlog is down to 2.2 million (as of December 2, 2022).
Note: Between August and December 2022, IRCC reduced its total backlog by nearly half a million applications, processing nearly twice as many applications as it did between August and December last year (2.5 million)
This milestone number of processed applications comes as Canada is also on track to break another national record, this time for permanent residents admitted into this country in one year. After exceeding its 2021 permanent residence (PR) admissions target and welcoming more than 401,000 permanent residents to Canada, IRCC is on track to set a new record once again by admitting 431,000 new permanent residents by the end of 2022.
IRCC has also released data that provides some particulars regarding which immigration categories have had the highest number of processed applications this year. That breakdown is as follows:
The temporary residence immigration category had the largest number of applications in 2022.
This year, Canada also processed 700,000 work permits and 670,000 study permits.
Finally, citizenship in Canada grew by 251,000 people between April and November.

January 30, 2023

Canada Work Permits

By admin Immigration

Canada Work Permits Issued In Record Numbers As Labour Crunch Leaves Employers Scrambling
A record-breaking number of foreign nationals are working in Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and International Mobility Program (IMP) this year, the latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals.
In the first 10 months of this year alone, those two programs resulted in almost half a million foreign nationals, exactly 498,435, getting Canadian work permits.
That’s 20.3 per cent more work permits under these programs in the first 10 months of this year than the 414,170 in all of last year.
Based on the current trend, Ottawa could wind up issuing 598,122 work permits to foreign nationals by the end of this year, or 44.4 per cent more than in 2021.
Both programs are showing massive growth this year as employers increasingly turn to recruit workers from outside the country to resolve Canadian labour shortages.
The IMP’s previous record for number of work permits issued was last year when the IRCC issued 310,805 to foreign nationals.
Ottawa had already issued 378,365 work permits under the IMP by the end of October this year and, based on the current trend, could issue 454,038 work permits through the IMP this year.
That performance would see Canada issuing more than twice as many work permits under the IMP this year compared to the 222,720 it issued under the same program only five years ago, in 2017.
Under the TFWP, immigration officials had already issued 120,070 work permits by the end of October this year, almost 16.2 per cent more in those 10 months than the 103,365 in all of last year.
Based on the current trend, Ottawa could wind up issuing 144,084 work permits through the TFWP by the end of this year, or about 39.4 per cent more than in all of last year.
That performance would mean the number of work permits issued through the TFWP would have almost doubled from 72,965 in 2015, only seven years ago.
Employers Turning To Foreign Workers To Fill The 959,600 Vacant Jobs
Employers are increasingly turning to foreign workers to fill jobs that are going begging for a want of Canadians to fill them.
In its third quarter job vacancies report, Statistics Canada noted there were then 959,600 vacant positions in Canada, down only slightly from the record high of 992,200 vacant positions in the second quarter of this year.
“It was 8.3 per cent higher than in the third quarter of 2021 and 72.7 per cent higher than in the first quarter of 2020,” reports Statistics Canada.
The job vacancy rate, which is calculated by dividing the number of vacant positions in Canada by the total number of jobs, both filled and unfilled, was 5.4 per cent in the third quarter of this year, down a smidgeon from 5.7 per cent in the previous quarter.
That’s a very, very tight labour market. Even if every unemployed person had the right skills and experience to do the available jobs, there were still barely enough people unemployed in Canada to fill the available jobs in the country during the third quarter – and, of course, there is no such perfect match in the workforce.
“There was an average of 1.1 unemployed persons for each job vacancy in Canada in the third quarter of 2022, similar to the record low reached in the second quarter,” reports Statistics Canada.
Canadian employers trying to survive during this acute labour shortage can recruit and hire foreign nationals through the TFWP and the IMP.
Ontario Snags More Than A Third Of All Foreign Nationals Coming To Canada With Work Permits
British Columbia and Quebec still have the highest job vacancy rates among the provinces and, perhaps unsurprisingly, are also two provinces where many of foreign nationals with work permits are going to work.
In the first 10 months of this year, foreign nationals headed for British Columbia got 27,825 work permits through the TFWP and another 56,600 through the IMP.
During the same period, foreign nationals headed for Quebec snagged 34,070 work permits through the TFWP and another 42,060 through the IMP.
Ontario employers’ recruitment of workers from other countries through these programs, though, makes both British Columbia and Quebec’s numbers pale by comparison.
Canada’s most populous province and the economic engine of Canada opened its arms to 37,200 foreign nationals who got work permits through the TFWP and another 140,170 through the IMP in the first 10 months of this year alone.
That’s a total of 177,370 foreign nationals with TFWP or IMP work permits in Ontario as of the end of October, or almost 35.6 per cent of the total number of such work permits issued across the country.

January 30, 2023

IRCC new NOC system

By admin Immigration

IRCC new NOC system
“TEER”
On November 16, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is transitioning to the 2021 version of the National Occupation Classification (NOC) system. Here is what that change will mean for Express Entry candidates.
Firstly, the current NOC system (NOC 2016) classifies work experience under NOC skill types 0, A or B. As of November 16, IRCC will be using the new Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) system.
According to IRCC, “most jobs will stay in the TEER category that is equal to their NOC skill level” (more on that below) but “some jobs may change to a different TEER category”. Additionally, under the new TEER system, all occupation codes will be five digits instead of four.
This is how the skill type categories of the current NOC system match up with the TEER categories of the 2021 NOC system.
Skill Type 0 (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 0 (NOC 2021)
Skill Type A (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 1 (NOC 2021)
Skill Type B (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 2 (NOC 2021)
Skill Type B (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 3 (NOC 2021)
Skill Type C (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 4 (NOC 2021)
Skill Type D (NOC 2016) translates to TEER 5 (NOC 2021)
Express Entry eligibility criteria based on NOC 2021’s TEER system
IRCC has updated the eligibility criteria for all three Express Entry programs — the Canadian Experience Class (CEC), the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) and the Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP) — based on the NOC 2021.
Note: CLB refers to Canadian Language Benchmark
Occupational eligibility changes coming for Express Entry with move to NOC 2021
With the transition to NOC 2021, 16 occupations will become newly eligible for Express Entry, while three occupations become ineligible.
The three newly ineligible occupations will remain eligible for programs with broader occupational eligibility criteria, such as some streams of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP).
About selection factor points for the FSWP and scoring through the CRS
With the transition to NOC 2021, the points given for selection factors as part of the Federal Skilled Workers Program (FSWP) and the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points given for arranged employment will now follow an updated Skill Type/Level chart.
Presuming that a candidate’s NOC 2016 Skill Type/Level code aligns with the appropriate new TEER system category, they will receive the same amounts of points after the change as they would have before.
Next steps
Depending on where an individual candidate is in their Express Entry journey, IRCC requires different actions in accordance with the switch to NOC 2021.
A. Express Entry hopefuls yet to submit an online profile (before November 16) must find and submit their occupation’s code in line with the NOC 2021 when filling out the profile.
B. Those who have submitted a profile but have not received an Invitation to Apply (ITA) will need to update their profile after November 16, making sure to add or alter their TEER category and five-digit occupation code in accordance with the NOC 2021 list on the Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) website.
C. Anyone who received an ITA prior to November 16 must submit their Express Entry application using NOC 2016 (using the NOC code provided at the time of receipt).

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