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
On February 15, 2022, the Public Health Agency of Canada announced amendments to the border measures.
As of February 28, 2022, fully-vaccinated travellers will be able to use either a COVID-19 rapid antigen or a molecular test result taken 72 hours before their scheduled flight or arrival at the border.
The Government eased the on-arrival testing for the randomly selected travellers, allowing fully vaccinated travellers no longer quarantine while awaiting their test results.
Exempted unvaccinated travellers will continue to follow testing and quarantine requirements.
#Travel_restrictions, #Border_measures, #COVID_19, #tourism, #vaccination
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/canada-to-ease-covid-border-restrictions
February 16, 2022
Overseas applicants complain about the immigration backlog
After Immigration Minister Sean Fraser presented the new 2022-2024 Immigration Levels Plan on February 14, 2022, many overseas applicants expressed their complaints about Canada’s backlog of applications for permanent residency (PR) as well as the processing delays.
On social media, applicants demanded Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to clear the existing backlogs and process all applications first, and then increase the immigration levels.
In addition to PR applicants, temporary residents and those waiting for citizenship approval expressed their frustrations too.
#IRCC, #Fraser, #immigration_backlog, #application_processing, #PR
February 16, 2022
