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- New Pathway Program Essential-non health care slot closed On May 7, 2021, one of the six temporary Canadian permanent residency programs of the Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway, Worker in Canada: Essential, non-health care streams, closed early on July 16, 2021. In other words, on May 6, the Immigration Service announced six special immigration programs to select 90,000 new immigrants. Among the programs announced at this time, the programs that received a lot of attention are international graduate stream, compulsory occupation stream, and medical-related employee stream. The international graduate stream, which attracted the most attention, ended early after receiving 40,000 applications just 25 hours after its opening. And on July 16, the required job stream closed early 69 days after opening. Originally, the program was announced to close on November 5th, but due to more interest than I thought, both streams were closed early. The remaining stream is for healthcare workers, with only about 2,600 out of a total of 20,000 registered to date. And the other three streams are for French speakers, which will continue to receive applications through November 5, regardless of the number of applicants. As both programs were closed so suddenly, applicants who were preparing for this program were unavoidably unable to register. However, not all programs are yet over and there is still a stream for healthcare workers. A total of 20,000 healthcare workers were scheduled to be selected and there are still about 17,000 seats left. The program meets the requirements if you have worked full-time for more than a year in the last three years, including nurses, doctors, pharmacists, as well as dental workers, dental hygienists, massage therapists, psychologists and social workers. In addition, you must currently work in Canada and submit a score of CLB 4 or higher within two years of the date of application for permanent residency. These permanent residency programs require the main applicant to live in Canada, but family members can acquire permanent residency together, even if they are overseas. You should check to see if your job is included in the stream of healthcare-related workers, as well as a variety of jobs that require you to work at the hospital. In addition, like the Pathway program, we may suddenly open a temporary permanent residency program like a gift to the immigration office, so we should prepare thoroughly to proceed with permanent residency anytime in the future so that we can seize the opportunity we missed this time. 2021-07-21 Read more >
- Statistics on permanent residency acquisition of international students More and more international students are choosing to study in Canada, and the Canadian government is also investing a lot in attracting international students. According to statistics from the Canadian Immigration Department, the number of international students was 122,700 in 2000, while the number more than tripled to 642,500 in 2019. Additionally, 30% of international students who entered Canada after 2000 have obtained permanent residency within 10 years. More specifically, 50% of students with master's degrees in Canada and 60% of those with doctorate degrees have obtained permanent residency in Canada. In addition to students with master's and doctorate degrees, the number of students who graduated from high school or college in Canada has increased by two to three times compared to 2000. This suggests that the number of international students coming to Canada to receive higher education to get the opportunity to become permanent residents of Canada is increasing. For your information, higher education programs such as college can be easier to enter and shorter than university programs, so you may enter other higher education institutions than universities when you come to study abroad. It was confirmed that international students with experience of working in school or after graduation had a 60% higher chance of becoming permanent residents after graduation. The reason is that most permanent residents require a career in Canada or if they have an experience in Canada, they can receive additional immigration scores, so the probability of obtaining permanent residency varies depending on their work experience. Graduates with high-wage jobs were more likely to get permanent residency. Eighty-seven percent of graduates with annual salaries of $60,000 or more earned permanent residency, while 46 percent of graduates with annual salaries of $30,000 or less earned permanent residency. This seems to be advantageous for high-paid graduates to acquire permanent residency because they can receive additional points according to their annual salary, such as the BCPNP immigration program. Based on the above data statistics, it seems to be a strong motivator for international students with experience working in Canada and high-paying jobs to decide on settling in Canada. The reason why we are trying to attract international students in Canada is that international students are an essential part of Canada's economy, which not only revitalizes educational institutions but also helps to increase labor and population. International students are relatively young, have Canadian credentials, English ability, a second language, and experience in Canada or abroad, so they are talented people who cannot be missed in Canada. Also, many networks are built around international students, so we can aim to further revitalize the Canadian economy. In the future, the Canadian Immigration Department will encourage Canadian students and maintain permanent residency more easily. As a support, once you graduate from school in Canada, you can pursue your Canadian career through Post graduation work permit (PGWP), which allows you to apply for permanent residency in Canada, and the Pathway program in May has been temporarily opened to allow students who graduate from Canadian schools to apply for permanent residency. If you are studying in Canada or preparing to study abroad, you can also obtain permanent residency in Canada more easily, so please consider obtaining permanent residency as well. 2021-07-14 Read more >
- Exemption from physical examination when applying for permanent residency If you apply for permanent residency in Canada, you will be exempted from the mandatory physical examination. Through this special temporary policy of exemption from physical examinations, the Canadian Immigration Department will simplify the process of permanent residency and expedite the process of permanent residency. This will help support the government's goal of accepting 401,000 new immigrants this year. Currently, the Canadian Immigration Department is unable to keep up with the previous target speed due to a sudden influx of permanent residency applicants and a lack of examiners from the Canadian Immigration Department. To make matters worse, we expect more and more applications to continue to flock, so we have introduced a special policy called exemption from physical examinations to overcome this situation. However, this special provisional policy does not apply to everyone, but only to applicants who meet all three conditions as below. The first condition is that you have not yet completed a physical examination if you have or plan to apply for permanent residency. The second condition corresponds to a situation in which a physical examination required by the Immigration Department has been taken in the last five years and does not pose a risk to public health examinations or safety. The last third condition is to continue living in Canada for the last six months. The above three conditions apply not only to the main applicant, but also to the family members who apply together, if they meet the above conditions, they will be exempted from physical examinations. If permanent residency is carried out without further physical examination in accordance with these physical examination exemptions, you must submit a physical examination confirmation or a physical examination unique number submitted during the previous physical examination called Unique Identifier number. However, even if all the above conditions are met and the previous physical examination confirmation is submitted, additional physical examination may be requested at the discretion of the examiner. This may be requested if the previous physical examination results are insufficient or if a re-examination is available. This temporary policy will be implemented from June 30, 2021 to December 28, 2021. Applicants who apply for permanent residency and are exempt from physical examinations can save $300-400 in physical examination costs and reduce the hassle of having to retake physical examinations. Additionally, after receiving permanent residency documents, I stopped waiting nervously for passing the physical examination. Furthermore, the entire process has become easier for applicants who had previously been re-examined for tuberculosis or other reasons to pass without being re-examined this time. As such, the Canadian Immigration Service continues to lead the way in attracting permanent residents during the Pandemic period and is providing support in various ways. As the Immigration Department continues to say, Canadian immigration is expected to be bright for the next two to three years, so I hope you can get permanent residency without missing the right time. 2021-07-07 Read more >
- Entry process for new immigrants. The border, which had also been closed to applicants who were granted permanent residency overseas, was reopened on June 21, 2021, 15 months later. Applicants who had previously received permanent residency certificates overseas, or COPR, but had not been able to complete their permanent residency through landing, are now officially eligible to obtain permanent residency in Canada as they arrive at the border. Of course, even if you enter the country for landing with COPR, the restricted entry restrictions and regulations to Canada will be applied together. With the closure of the Canadian border from March 18, 2020, new immigrants with COPR and green card certificates have been restricted from entry. As a result, permanent residency has already been approved on paper, but we could not receive the landing and PR card, which are the last procedures, because we were not able to enter Canada. There were about 23,000 new immigrants waiting for landing, all of whom were granted permanent residency, but were unable to receive official PR cards. Fortunately, however, on June 21, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino allowed all new immigrants with COPR to enter the country and receive PR cards. However, COPR does not mean that everyone can receive permanent residency as they enter Canada. Once COPR has not yet expired, it must be valid and meet the conditions for entry into Canada like any other entrant. COPR has been used before Pandemic as a document confirming the approval of permanent residency and also as a document allowing entry into Canada. In order to enter the country through this document, you must receive a PR card after entering the country before the document expires, and this regulation is still in effect. Because the entry restrictions have already been in place for more than a year, some of the COPRs received since March 18, 2020 have already expired, and in this case, you cannot enter Canada right now. However, in order to remedy these cases, the Immigration Department has announced that it is preparing procedures to reissue expired COPRs. There will be an announcement soon about the related procedures, so even if COPR expires, you can wait without applying for permanent residency, and I recommended you to contact the immigration office first until the procedures are completed. In order to enter Canada at this time, you must comply with COVID-19 entry restrictions applicable to all travelers. Basically, if you have COVID-19 symptoms, you cannot enter the country. And when you enter the country, you have to upload the self-isolation plan, voice COVID-19 test certificate, and additional necessary documents using the ArriveCAN app. After that, you have to enter the country and conduct 14 days of self-quarantine, including hotel quarantine, but if you have recently been vaccinated, you only observe hotel self-quarantine and do not have to proceed with additional 14 days of self-quarantine. Given that applicants for permanent residency overseas are also announcing measures to enter the country after approving permanent residency, it is expected that FSW and FST, which are currently suspended, will resume their progress soon. Soon, the Canadian Immigration Service will be back to normal and all immigration will be able to proceed again, so applicants who were preparing for permanent residency, which is currently suspended, should start preparing for permanent residency again. 2021-06-30 Read more >
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