On February 18, 2022, the Government of Canada published a new report regarding the arrival of Afghan refugees.
Over the past week, Canadian cities welcomed 335 government-assisted and privately-sponsored Afghan refugees who arrived in Canada on 10 commercial flights.
These refugees will be resettled in communities all across Canada, including in cities such as Calgary, Winnipeg, and Sherbrooke.
To date, Canada has accepted a total of 7,885 Afghan nationals under the special immigration program for Afghans who assisted the Government of Canada.
#Afghan_refugees, #Afghanistan, #refugees, #Taliban, #protected_persons
February 21, 2022
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
