On December 7, 2021, the Government of Canada announced a new initiative to protect vulnerable women and girls in the northern part of Central America.
Social and economic instability have forcibly displaced thousands of women and girls and led to the increase of irregular migration.
Working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Canada aims to help 5,000 women and girls affected by irregular migration and forced displacement in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Over the next 4 years, the Government plans to invest $10 million to empower and protect women and girls in the region.
#UNCHR, #IOM, #Central_America, #Honduras, #El_Salvador, #Guatemala, #vulnerable_women
December 8, 2021
International students coming from India face challenges to support their education and the cost of living in Canada.
Because of the limit of 20 hours per week, these students work unofficially to meet their expenses.
Some students approach driving schools that sell Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to foreign nationals to become permanent residents in Canada.
They face exploitation and pay money to get an LMIA. In addition to Indian students, many immigrants coming from India as a cook or a chef also start driving trucks because it pays more money.
#International_students, #India, #LMIA, #immigration_fraud, #truck_drivers
December 8, 2021
On December 3, 2021, the Government of Canada began to accept applications for the second phase of the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) that helps talented and skilled refugees immigrate Canada through the economic immigration streams,
such as the Provincial Nominee Program, the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, and the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot.
The expanded pilot will provide additional ways for refugees to come to Canada and allow 500 refugees and their families to contribute to Canada’s economy and economic growth.
#EMPP, #refugees, #PR, #economic_immigration
December 8, 2021
China has always been the main source of Canadian immigration, with the main demographic of immigrants being foreign students.
But since last year, there are fewer students and immigrants coming to Canada, and the source of Canadian immigration has also changed. Statistics Canada recently announced the landing status of new immigrants which showed that among the more than 220,000 new immigrants, 18,510 new immigrants came from China.
This only accounted for 8.3 percent of the total number of new immigrants, which was less than 8 percent of the same period in the past two years.
Even though Chinese immigrants have decreased, they still rank second in contributing to the number of Canadian immigrants after India.
#China, #India, #immigration_levels, #Chinese_immigrants
December 6, 2021
