Last year, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 permanent residents.
This is a record number of immigrants accepted by Canada in one year. Immigration drives almost 100% of the Canadian labour force and accounts for approximately 80% of population growth.
In addition, currently, there are under 1,000,000 unfilled vacancies in the country that the Government tries to fill by inviting more and more candidates.
According to Statistics Canada, by 2030, around 5,000,000 Canadians are expected to retire, which will drop the worker to retiree ratio to 3:1.
Thus, the Canadian Government increased the immigration levels to meet the economic needs and tackle the labour shortage issue in the country.
#IRCC, #immigration_policy, #immigration_levels, #Immigration_Levels_Plan_2022_2024
https://newcanadianlife.com/why-does-canada-accept-so-many-immigrants/
February 18, 2022
Since over 85% of children in Jamaica are born while their parents are in a common-law or “visiting” relationship, a significant proportion of permanent resident applications (including both economic and family class cases)
require officers to do an in-detail investigation to resolve questions around accompanying and non-accompanying dependents.
The Registrar General's Department of Jamaica implemented measures that allow children who were not born to married parents to have their birth records, which indicate being born “in wedlock” to ease the processing of permanent residency.
#IRCC, #Jamaica, #application_processing
February 18, 2022
In the recently published “IRCC Anti-Racism Employee Focus Groups” Final Report, IRCC was accused of having a bias against applications from African countries.
Immigration officials denied this claim, indicating that the approval rates for study permit applications from African countries, especially from French-speaking applicants are relatively high.
According to the officials, “there cannot be any bias in the process, and there are many other factors at play.” However, Canadian universities agreed with the high refusal rates for
applications from French-speaking African countries and stated that this urgent issue has to be addressed as soon as possible.
#Racism, #approval_rates, #Africas, #IRCC, #anti_racism
February 18, 2022
Comparing the Government of Canada’s immigration levels for 2021 and 2022, it becomes apparent that the Government increased the number of economic immigrants but decreased the number of the total Federal economic immigrants.
While the quota for the total economic immigration was 232,500 in 2021 with 204,800 Federal economic immigration applications, in 2022, the Government increased the total overall number of economic immigrants to 241,850 but decreased the number of Federal economic immigrants to 196,900 – a 6.5% decrease.
This was mainly because of the increase in economic immigration in Quebec.
#economic_immigration, #Quebec, #economic_immigrants
February 17, 2022
