Canada is committed to helping families reunite through the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP).
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will accept up to 15,000 sponsorship applications this year and will send invitations to apply to 24,200 interested potential sponsors starting on October 10, 2023.
Due to the number of remaining PGP applications from previous years, IRCC will randomly select potential sponsors from the 2020 pool.
Those not invited may consider applying for a super visa, which allows visits of up to 5 years at a time and can be extended for up to 2 years.
#PGP, #Parents_and_grandparents, #sponsorship, #family_reunification
September 11, 2023
Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan had the highest percentage of internationally educated healthcare professionals (IEHPs) working in their fields in 2021, with 74%, 68%, and 67%, respectively.
Ontario had attracted the most significant number of IEHPs, with 116,310 residing there in 2021. IEHPs were most likely to be nurses, with one-third studying nursing.
The fields of study varied by province, with Prince Edward Island having the highest percentage of IEHPs studying nursing at 53%, Newfoundland and Labrador having 30% trained to be physicians, and Ontario having the highest proportion of IEHPs studying dentistry at 10% or pharmacy at 9%.
#Healthcare_professionals, #nurses, #healthcare, #IEHP
September 8, 2023
Canada may have an issue determining how many temporary residents have jobs due to a discrepancy of around one million people between official figures from two federal bodies.
An economist at the University of Waterloo, Mikal Skuterud, warns that Statistics Canada may also be undercounting the number of temporary residents employed in Canada, including international students and temporary foreign workers.
The economist highlighted that Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey indicated that Canada had 503,079 temporary residents with jobs in December last year, while information from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada suggests there were 1,585,664 temporary residents with jobs during the same period.
#Temporary_residents, #statistics, #Labour_Force_Survey
September 8, 2023
On September 7, 2023, the Government of Canada announced new updates for citizenship applications, simplifying the instructions for waivers on compassionate grounds.
Waiver requests for language, knowledge, or oath requirements will now be available for clients at the time of application.
The Case Management Branch (CMB) will now make all knowledge, language, and oath waiver determinations, and clients will no longer require a waiver hearing.
In addition, the Centralized Network (CN) will forward files with waiver requests directly to the CMB instead of the Domestic Network (DN).
#Citizenship, #waivers, #Canadian_citizenship
September 8, 2023
