On October 14, 2022, the Government of Canada published new statistics regarding the immigration backlog. According to the latest update, as of September 30, 2022, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had 2.6 million applications in the inventory.
There were 1.11 million applications within service standards and 1.49 million in the backlog. 46% of temporary residence applications, 47% of permanent resident applications, and 69% of citizenship applications were processed within service standards.
The service standard is the metric IRCC uses to measure how long it takes, on average, to process an application for a given immigration program.
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October 19, 2022
in October 11, 2022, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced that the Government of Canada will accept 15,000 applications under the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) in 2022.
This week, IRCC will send 23,100 invitations to potential sponsors to ensure they meet the goal of 15,000 applications.
IRCC will follow the approach taken for the 2021 intake and invite randomly selected potential sponsors remaining in the pool of submissions from 2020.
In addition, the sponsors will have to meet a lower income requirement for sponsoring parents and grandparents for the 2020 and 2021 tax years.
#PGP, #IRCC, #parents_and_grandparents, #sponsorshipOctober 18, 2022
On October 7, 2022, the Government of Manitoba clarified the new temporary policy introduced by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
The provincial government defined that the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP) criteria for qualifying work in Manitoba has not changed.
Only those with a work permit from IRCC are eligible to apply to the MPNP's Skilled Worker in Manitoba pathway.
The MPNP does not accept periods of employment when students are engaged in full-time study as they do not hold a work permit. Qualifying work experience in Manitoba includes work completed with a valid post-graduation work permit or another work permit.
#IRCC, #MPNP, #SWM, #international_students, #Work_permit, #off_campus_work
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/liberals-temporarily-lift-limit-off-143902788.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/international-student-lift-work-limit-1.6609550
October 11, 2022
On October 6, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced new policy changes to the Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (PGWPP).
For students who start their distance learning program between September 1, 2022, and August 31, 2023, time spent studying online outside of Canada until August 31, 2023, will be counted toward the overall length of the PGWP as long as it does not exceed 50% of the program.
In addition, the Government also added new guidelines for officers to use while assessing PGWP applications of students who studied their programs between March 2020 and August 31, 2022.
#PGWPP, #PGWP, #international_students, #International_graduates, #work_permit
October 7, 2022
