Nearly 93 percent of those polled thought the epidemic would have "no influence" or make them "more interested" in obtaining permanent residency in Canada.
According to a recent study of over 13,000 potential immigrants,
there is still a lot of interest in moving to Canada.
World Education Services (WES) Canada, an authorized supplier of
Educational Credential Assessments (ECA) for Canadian immigration, performed
the survey.
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In 2020, WES surveyed ECA applicants to assess the influence of the
Coronavirus pandemic on their chances of obtaining permanent residency in
Canada.
WES conducted a follow-up survey in August 2021 to compare responses
and evaluate if the changing pandemic scenario had influenced respondents'
desires to move to Canada.
According to WES, the number of people interested in coming to
Canada has been unchanged since 2020. Nearly half of those polled claimed the
epidemic will have no effect on their intentions to immigrate. Nearly 93%
thought the epidemic would either have "no influence" or
"increase their interest."
In the 2021 poll, 33% of respondents stated they believed the
pandemic will have a negative impact on employment availability in Canada, down
from 45% in 2020. Meanwhile, 35% of respondents believe the epidemic will have
a favourable influence on employment availability, compared to only 27% in
2020.
Because of the Canadian government's and health-care system's
abilities to control the pandemic and care for COVID-19 patients, 58 per cent
of respondents said they were more interested in immigrating to Canada.
Only 21% said the pandemic would cause them to postpone their
intentions to immigrate to Canada,
compared to 35% in 2020.
On the other side, 22% of respondents stated they want to immigrate
to a nation other than Canada, up from 13% in 2020.
Even if they faced difficult economic or personal situations,
respondents expressed a strong desire to achieve Canadian permanent residence
status. For example, 74% responded that an economic downturn in Canada would
either have no effect or strengthen their desire to become permanent residents.
This is an increase from the 69 percent who said the same thing in the 2020
poll.
They were also more hopeful about career prospects in Canada than in
their home nations throughout the epidemic. COVID-19 would have little or a
favourable impact on jobs in their occupation or industry, according to 77
percent of respondents, compared to 69 per cent in their home country. Only 23%
thought it would have a negative impact, down from 28% who thought it would
have a negative impact on jobs in their occupation or sector in Canada in 2020.
Travel limitations, a large rise in Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship Canada (IRCC) processing periods, and a drop in jobs in
Canada were the top three reasons stated by persons contemplating delaying
immigration to Canada.
Before the epidemic, Canada was planning to accept additional
341,000 immigrants in 2020, largely from lower-income countries. To combat the
spread of COVID, it enforced travel restrictions, resulting in a drop in new
immigrant arrivals to barely 184,000 that year.
The majority of the travel restrictions have subsequently been
relaxed. The epidemic, however, has raised the IRCC's backlog to 1.8 million
applications, slowing processing procedures. In 2021, Canada's economy
recovered, and the country now had the largest employment vacancy rate on
record, with approximately one million open positions.
In 2021, Canada aimed to welcome 401,000 new immigrants, mostly by
converting those already living in the country to permanent residents. By
February 14, the Canadian government will unveil its revised Immigration Levels
Plan 2022-2024. The plan will include the amount of new immigrants that Canada
hopes to welcome this year, as well as the categories into which they will
fall.
According to the current plan, 411,000 new immigrants are expected
to arrive this year, with nearly 60% of them falling into the lower economic
class.
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