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- Entry and Exit Information System From February 2019, the Canadian Immigration Service was able to identify all foreigners, permanent residents and citizens entering Canada from the United States by land. And from June 2020, the system will also be improved so that all visitors who fly to and from Canada can also can be identified. In the future, if a traveler leaves Canada or enters the country by land or air, the entry/exit information will be sent to the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA). Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) can then obtain name, birth date, nationality, gender and entry/exit date collected by the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) via the entry and exit program. Due to the new immigration system in Canada, much of it is expected to be carried out accurately and fairly. This system improvement will directly affect your work permit, study permit, visitor Permit, permanent residency and Canadian citizenship applications. The information collected through the program can be used to confirm how long a temporary resident has previously stayed in Canada and if he or she stayed longer than what they were allowed to reside. This will affect on eTA, work permit, study permit, and visitor permit applications and their extensions. This information makes it easy for immigration to investigate individual qualifications for travel documents in Canada and can prevent identity and travel documents fraud in advance. Permanent residents will be affected by the extension of their permanent residency card, application for citizenship and immigration to their families. This program allows you to track the dates of your residence in Canada. This will help you determine whether you have met the minimum 730 days of residence in Canada every 5 years to maintain your permanent residency and have lived in Canada for more than 1,095 days within the last 5 years to apply for your Canadian citizenship. In addition, family invitations can be sent to Canada to determine whether the invitees live together, apply from overseas, or meet the eligibility requirements. Immigration data is used to help check for potential loss of permanent residency status and false statements. While this new system is expected to provide more accurate information about applicants, there are also concerns that information will be misrepresented in the system. If the information is misplaced due to a system error, the traveler may request a copy of his personal travel record and if he finds the error, he may request the Canadian Border Service Agency (CBSA) to correct it. The new program will have a significant impact on applying for permanent residency and citizenship as well as temporary resident permits in Canada in the future. As all immigration records are detailed, you should be more careful about applying for permits, permanent residency, and citizenship by filling out detailed information the date you enter and exit the country. We also expect the system to shorten the process of applications, as applicants can apply with more accurate information. 2020-02-12 Read more >
- Make Yourself Ready for Agri-Food Immigration Pilot Many people wanting to immigrate to Canada are interested in finding other fastest ways of immigrating to Canada, as Express Entry (EE) and the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) immigration scores have been raised. In particular, many of the people are interested in Agri-Food Immigration Pilot, which will be addressed in March, as the application eligibility requirements for Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), which has been drawing much attention recently, were announced last week. Agri-Food Immigration Pilot, which will be announced soon, is a method of immigration prepared to address labor demand in the farm sector, especially in the mushroom and greenhouse crop production, meat processing and breeding industries throughout the year, and to attract skilled workers regardless of the season. The program will be temporarily run for three years from March 2020 to March 2023. Details will be announced in March, but the details so far are somewhat brief. The conditions presented so far are somewhat similar to those of the Atlantic Immigration Program Pilot (AIPP) and Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) There are five major categories: experience, job offer, language score, education, and settlement fund. First of all, if you look at your career, you have to work in Canada for more than one full-time year, 30 hours a week, in the last three years. You also have to work in the agri-food-related occupational groups, not in all occupational groups. Possible occupations include farm supervisors, butchering workers, food processing workers, farmworkers, and harvest workers. You cannot apply at any time for a job in this job, and you have limited the number of applications to each job group. Applications are limited to 50 farm supervisors, 1,470 butcher workers, 730 food processing workers, 200 farmworkers, and 300 harvest workers. The second condition requires a job offer from a Canadian employer in the relevant industry group. It must be reported that the offer will employ non-seasonal and permanent employees for at least 30 hours a week. Also, because the minimum wage that is most important is applied to different workgroups, an offer must be made based on that amount. For example, if the salary for Agri-Food immigration from a butcher is $15 and the job offer is $14, you are not eligible to apply. The third condition is the language score. With all immigration changing to a trend that requires language scores, the newly announced farm emigration also requires minimal language scores. You can earn 4 CLB points, which are slightly lower than other immigrants. Fourth, you need to complete a course corresponding to your Canadian high school graduation or Canadian high school graduation on a slightly lower standard of education. Finally, minimum settlement funds are required, and provincial applicants and their families must be provided with minimum settlement funds to stay in Canada until they are adjusted. Please note that if you are already working in Canada, you do not need to provide a separate minimum settlement fund, so this condition applies only to applicants who are not currently working in Canada. The above five conditions are somewhat similar to the RNIP federal government, and the biggest difference is that there are no special conditions required by each city and that it is possible to do so in any city other than a particular city, with only an offer of the above job, which would be easier than RNIP. Canada continues to announce Atlantic Immigration Program Pilot (AIPP), Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), and Agri-Food Immigration Pilot out of concern that the population is only recently flocking to large cities. If there is no reason to go to a big city or a certain city, I think it is also a shortcut to acquiring permanent residency to look at other immigration methods and choose an efficient one. 2020-02-05 Read more >
- Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program - Vernon, British Columbia The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) program for Vernon, British Columbia, one of two regions in BC and one of the eleven regions participating in the RNIP in Canada, have been announced. In order to apply for RNIP - Vernon region, there are several eligibility requirements by the federal government, but there are additional eligibility requirements for each program required by the region. Those requirements must be met depending on the city in which you want to apply for the RNIP. The Vernon region in BC, which was the most questionable of the two to be implemented in BC, is drawing keen attention from applicants as announcements finally emerged. There are two main requirements for applying for permanent residency in the VERNON area, each of which must be met by the applicant’s and the employer's. The terms of the applicant must meet both federal and Vernon community eligibility requirements: Federal eligibility requirements are the same for all 11 RNIP-able local cities. • Have at least one year of experience in the last three years. At least 12 months of experience in Canada or abroad are recognized and paid for work is recognized. Or, if you graduate from a local school, you can apply without experience. • Job Offer must be received from within 11 Canadian employers, and Job Offer must meet full-time and job and local minimum wage. In addition, the Job Offer must be less than one level or the same NOC Level in the past history. For example, if you receive Job Offer as NOC B, your past experience must be NOC A, B, or C. • CLB 6, NOC B, CLB 5, NOC C/D, and CLB 4 or later must exist. • A minimum of high school graduation is mandatory. • Settlement funds are required for each family member. If the above federal government requirements have been met, the requirements in the Vernon area below must now be met by the applicant. • Show willingness to reside in the Vernon area. This can be shown through experience in family residences, past residences, and current Vernon. • You must have at least a minimum CLB 5 language score. As a result, the language score above CLB 5 is mandatory because federal immigration requirements said that CLB 4 or higher must be met by Bernon City. If the above applicant requirements have been met, then employers in the Vernon region supporting the RNIP must also meet the requirements of the employer. These requirements must be met by an applicant other than an employer in Vernon, and an employer who can support RNIP sovereignty in Vernon must also meet the terms of the employer. • Employers must show willingness to hire Canadian citizens or permanent residents first • You must have at least three full-time Canadian citizens or permanent residents • It had to be a business with at least five years of operation, two of which had to be run by Vernon or at least $200,000 in business investment • Offer salaries must be at least $25 and must comply with the base pay for each job, region, specified by the Job Bank in Canada. If you have been living in the Vernon area for the last 12 months, you must meet a salary of $25.00 or $20.00-24.99 and a Vernon Comprehensive Ranking System (VCRS) score of 65 or more. (VCRS is a scoring system for Bernon to review the qualification of RNIP applicants. Scores are calculated based on age, experience, language score, family residence, past residence, home ownership in the Vernon area, salary and driver's license.) • It must be a legitimate business that can run on Vernon. As you can see from the above requirements, the applicant’s requirements are not very different from those of the federal ones, but meeting the two requirements, particularly the period of business operations and the offer hourly requirements, may be a bit tricky. You can also see that the requirements themselves are similar to LMIA and PNP. Considering the announced immigration to the RNIP Vernon area, these are not requirements that would not be met. If you try and prepare, you can fulfill it and proceed with your permanent residency. If you are considering a different method of immigration or local move due to a significant increase in Express Entry and BC PNP scores starting in 2019, consider acquiring permanent residency with the RNIP Vernon immigration method. 2020-01-29 Read more >
- Focus: Immigration to Small Cities The Canadian federal government has put continuous effort into developing pilot immigration programs - the Pilot Program. And many of the recent pilot immigration programs are being organized with the aim of providing small cities with scarce manpower. Although the provincial immigration program, PNP (Provincial Nominee Program), first started in 1999 played an important role in attracting immigrants to small population provinces such as Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic coast, most immigrants continue to settle in Canada’s largest city in Canada. With a few exceptions, statistics show that more than 80 percent of immigrants prefer to settle in the city among others, and as a result, immigration is having difficulty enticing immigrants into small cities that demand workforce. Pilot programs include the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), the Rural and Northern Immigration Filter (RNIP), the Agri-Food Immigration Pilot and the Municipal Nominee Program (MNP). The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP) launched in 2017 to attract more immigrants to Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. It was a successful pilot program: It currently accommodates more than 4,000 immigrants. Based on these results, Canada plans to accommodate at least 5,000 people each year and then establish it as an immigration program. The federal government introduced the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) in January 2019. Eleven communities in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia are joining the RNIP to attract and maintain more of immigrants. RNIP is still at the early stage, but we will be able to see the exact content in the second half of 2020. Agri-Food Immigration Pilot was announced in July 2019. Given the importance of the agricultural sector to the Canadian economy and the continuing labor shortage facing the related industries, the three-year pilot program aims to attract new immigrants who can fill vacancies in the meat processing and mushroom farming industries. Lastly, the upcoming program is the Municipal Nominee Program (MNP) to promote the geographic distribution of immigrants nationwide. This is one of the Liberal Party's policies to implement in the 2019 federal election, which is drawing more and more attention. The conditions and methods of the MNP have not been announced anything yet, but are expected to be similar to the AIPP and RNIP. The MNP allows designated local communities, local labor councils, and chambers of commerce to attract and sponsor immigrants who are involved in job hunting or in local autonomous communities. The federal government then reviews the qualifications of these immigrants to ensure that they meet certain requirements, such as language skills, educational credentials and work experience. So many pilot programs are already in place and will be in place in the future. Now, those who are about to give up their dreams of immigration to Canada due to the high CRS score of current draw and those who want to immigrate to big cities should consider immigrating through small city immigration programs. 2020-01-21 Read more >
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