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- Special Measures to Temporary and Permanent Residents and Applicants Affected by Covid-19 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has implemented special measures for applicants from Korea, China and Iran, where the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). The special measure was introduced to apply to citizens, permanent residents, visiting visa applicants, applicants for overseas study permits, and applicants for work permits, as well as Canadian citizens and permanent residents abroad, who must enter Canada safely. Visa Office Centres in China have already implemented the special measures on February 7 and South Korea and Iran as well since February 29. According to the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, special actions are applied to the following types of applicants: • South Korean, Chinese, Iranian citizens or residents of South Korea, China, and Iran. • Applicants subject to entry-related services or restrictions in Canada due to coronavirus (COVID-19) o visa application centres closures o service disruptions at visa application centres o limited access to local government offices and businesses o limited access to physical examination and biometric system services We will accept applications from applicants who require permission to visit, work or study abroad, and have promised to help them proceed without physical examination or biometrics. If there are insufficient documents at the time of application, you can provide the rest of the documents except the insufficient documents, and specify the documents separately. The insufficient documentation will be available within the next 90 days, which will also apply to biometric systems. The biometric recognition system must proceed within 30 days of request, but the applicant included in the above conditions will be given an additional 90 days to receive biometric recognition. For permanent residency applicants, Express Entry usually requires all documents to be provided within 60 days of receipt of the invitation. However, if you cannot receive the required documents due to the coronavirus outbreak, you can submit the reason why you cannot receive the documents and the documents except the documents you cannot provide. The rest of the documents can then be submitted as soon as they are available. However, this will put the applications on hold until further notice, so submission of documents without delays will prevent you from additional delays in the government decision on you applications. In addition, those who have been granted permanent residency but are unable to do PR Landing before the document expires must explain the situation to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. If explained, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada could postpone the appointment of an interview or the PR landing date. For Canadian citizenship applicants, if they find it difficult to visit the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada office, the Canadian citizenship test, re-test, interview, hearing, or citizenship pledge, they may re-establish an appointment by explaining the reasons in advance. This special policy regarding Corona, Canada, states that Canada is favorable to foreign nationals regardless of the coronavirus and will continue to issue visitor permits, work permits, study permits as well as newcomers. If it is not easy to enter the country due to Corona or if the document is not easy to obtain, the deadline can be extended. Contact the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada in advance, if your flight is delayed or the required document is delayed due to the coronavirus. 2020-03-11 Read more >
- BC PNP: Changes and Impacts Any applicants who prepares to immigrate to BC province would have heard of British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program(BC PNP) at least once. BC PNP is one of the immigration methods implemented in BC government for applicants who reside in BC province or prepare to acquire permanent residency in Canada through BC PNP. In the past, BC immigration enabled many applicants to acquire permanent residency because of the advantages of BC PNP. The biggest advantage is that there is no age score unlike Express Entry. Unlike Express Entry, applicants who are over 30 years old and apply for permanent residency will not be penalized for their age scores. In addition, if BC PNP is prepared in small cities due to regional scores, regional bonus points can be obtained, and points based on job and salary can be obtained. These advantages made it easier for older or inarticulate English speakers to acquire permanent residency. However, recent changes to Tech Pilot focus and Guaranteed Invitation Scores have affected BC PNP applicants as well. There have been a total of eight BC PNP selections since the beginning of 2020. Through the eight draws, you might think that the BC PNP score is steadily rising, and it is because of the selection configuration. With the exception of five Tech Pilot selections out of a total of eight draws, there were a total of three BC PNP draws. The general BC PNP draw was announced on January 7, three weeks later on January 28, four weeks later on February 27. As you can see from the draw date above, the selection is being made every three or four weeks, unlike in 2019, when the draw was frequent every two weeks. Also, the number of invitations is 200 to 300, which means the draw score is higher than before. The biggest reason for this is that BC is still focused on 29 Tech Pilot occupations. Tech Pilot is a program created by BC government to benefit permanent residency applicants through 29 occupations listed on Tech Pilot program. The BC government extended the date to June, 2020 because they still have a labor shortage in those field. Tech Pilot has already had five draws this year and has selected 349 people. It accounts for a large portion of the total number of invitations in 2020, nearly 32 % of the 1,096 people. As of February, 221 people out of 551 people were invited through Tech Pilot program. Other changes to the BC PNP are to abolish the Province Guaranteed Invitation Score as of February 19 as the BC PNP draw scores continue to rise up. The Guaranteed Invitation Score was an immigration guarantee program that insured to get an invitation if a certain score was exceeded. Few people applied for permanent residency in this way because it was a program that only few applicants could actually achieve that score. So it doesn't seem to have a direct impact on applicants who were already preparing for BC PNP, but it's still a question of whether BC PNP will create a different system with the abolition of this Guaranteed Invitation Scores. Since 2017, BC PNP scores have been gradually rising. The Canadian government's announcement says they will continue to accommodate more immigrants in the future, and it will also give more support to Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, Atlantic Immigration Pilot and Agri-Food Immigration Pilot that are being prepared or implemented by the federal government. 2020-03-04 Read more >
- Now Post-Graduation Work Permit Applicants Allowed to Travel Outside Canada Remaining in Canada while waiting for the result of post-graduation work permit (PGWP) after application submitted is one of the requirements of post-graduation work permit application. International students no longer need to stay in Canada while their post-graduation work permit is in process. As of February 21, 2020, once post-graduation work permit application has submitted, the applicants are allowed to travel outside Canada then re-enter to Canada and work. However, not all Canadian students can apply for post-graduation work permit and work, but only if they meet the conditions below, they can get a post-graduation work permit to work legally in Canada. • Post-graduation work permit must be applied before the Study Permit expires. • After completing a Canadian academic program, you must receive a degree, diploma or certificate. • You must graduate from a college, university, or professional training school for at least 8 months. • Do not work longer than the hours permitted to be employed during your study with the Study Permit. • Graduates from schools where post-graduation work permit applications are available. • Full-time classes must be registered during the study period. If post-graduation work permit is approved after the above conditions are met, you will be able to obtain work permit, which allows you to work in Canada for at least eight months to up to three years. If your ultimate goal is to settle in Canada, you can have a career in Canada with this acquired post-graduation work permit and make it easier to prepare for permanent residency. The biggest advantage is that post-graduation work permit gives you the opportunity when you look for a job, and you can get enough work experience up to three years. In addition, there are additional points in the permanent residency system that can be applied for Canadian school graduates. In addition to this change in post-graduation work permit, the Canadian government remains to offer benefits to international students in Canada. Extended period of post-graduation work permit application, brief application conditions, and permanent residency are shown to maintain highly educated talents who have finished studying in Canada through bonus points. The Canadian government further encourages international students to come to Canada and to immigrate after their study. 2020-02-26 Read more >
- The New Plan Commits to Increasing Immigration Intake: Is It Working? The Government of Canada announced in 2019 that it was the fifth year in history to accommodate more than 300,000 immigrants, with a total of 341,000 immigrants. It is also clear that it has expressed its intention to accommodate more immigrants by accommodating 10,000 more than the previous federal target of 33,800 immigrants. But, in numbers, unlike Canada's increased acceptance of immigration, the actual immigration threshold felt by applicants was a bit higher than in 2017 or 2018. If you analyze the reasons, you can divide it into three main categories: the formation of immigration programs, the composition of immigrants by country, and the population density in preferred regions. First, there were applicants who felt that the immigration threshold was high because of the differences in the composition of the new immigration program. The composition of new immigrants depends on whether the Conservatives are in power or the Liberals are in power. In general, when the Conservatives come to power, they increase the proportion of the Economic Classes that have a career, seek to immigrate to Canada, and lower the proportion of parents and grandparents sponsorship and refugee immigration. On the contrary, the Liberals in power, economic class the upward to the Immigration and Refugees, the invitation of the family, but rather lower rate. The reason for this is a change in the nature of each party. The composition of new immigrants in 2019 when the Liberal Party was in power was Economic Class: 58%, Family Sponsorship: 27% and Refugee Class: 15% while maintaining parents and grandparents sponsorship and refugee immigration. For this reason, applicants who were willing to immigrate through parents and grandparents sponsorship were more likely to apply, while applicants who were preparing for permanent residency while working in Canada were forced to face higher immigration barriers. The second is the composition of immigrants by country. When preparing for permanent residency by emigration to the Economic Class, the most important part is language and English score. In other words, if residents in countries such as India, Philippines, and the United States, which are familiar with English, prepare for permanent residency in Canada, they will have an advantage in acquiring permanent residency due to high scores in English proficiency test. What exactly illustrates this is the composition of immigrants by country in 2019. In 2019, 25 percent of the total 340,000 immigrants, and about 86,000 immigrants, were Indian citizens, with 9 percent in China, 30,000 in the Philippines, and 27,000 in the Philippines. Korea has the ninth largest number of Canadian immigrants, with 1.7 percent and 6,110 people acquiring permanent residency in Canada. It was a year when the number of permanent residency applicants who lived in the Philippines, more English-speaking India, was overwhelmingly high. The third is increased concentration of preferred areas. Over 72 percent of new immigrants have settled in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta in the last three years. In other words, as most new immigrants want to move to big cities, the competition for immigration has become even fiercer. Federal immigration, Express Entry as well as PNP state immigration should be selected for each selection by earning higher scores than other immigration applicants by relative evaluation. However, due to the heavy competition in most large cities, the scores kept rising, forcing applicants who could not get more state immigration scores to move to other provinces or give up to acquire permanent residency. For these reasons, the actual statistics show that more and more immigrants acquired permanent residency in 2019, but the immigration threshold felt by the people of Korea was high so made them think that fewer applicants acquired permanent residency in 2019. In contrast to the announcement that it will accommodate more and more people in 2020, Express Entry has maintained a high starting point, with a sharp increase in the number of starting points since January 2020. There is a lot of pessimism about the possibility that the score may not go down again, but given the fact that Canada is preparing and implementing a lot of new immigration laws, it is likely that you will be able to acquire permanent residency if you prepare thoroughly with the correct immigration method that suits you. 2020-02-19 Read more >
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