Employers are aggressively searching to fill hundreds of thousands of open positions in all industries across Canada as the country works to recover from the pandemic. Since our country's robust economic development is currently outpacing our capacity to attract and retain people, immigration is now more crucial than ever to support Canada's economy. The best country in the world to find talent is Canada. This reality must be used to guarantee that employers and enterprises have access to the qualified personnel they require to expand and prosper.
The Express Entry draws will shortly resume, and invitations for applicants to submit applications for permanent residence will start in early July, according to a statement made today by the honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship.
Travel limitations caused the processing of applications from abroad to be delayed for the majority of 2020 and 2021, which increased the amount of processing inventory. We temporarily halted invitations to apply under the federal high-skilled streams, including the Canada experience class, the federal skilled worker class, and the federal skilled trade class, in order to manage this inventory. The vast majority of new applications will be processed within the 6-month service standard when invitations to apply resume in early July.
In addition, Minister Fraser today unveiled a new temporary policy that would allow recent foreign graduates with expiring temporary status to remain in Canada for an extended period of time in order to continue working and improve their chances of being accepted for Canadian permanent residency. Former international students who are currently residing in Canada and have a post-graduation work visa that expires between January and December 2022 will be qualified for an extended open work permit of as long as a year and a half starting in the late spring of 2022. Details will be made accessible in the coming weeks as we investigate an accelerated, streamlined procedure for this.
These brilliant and skilled international graduates are crucial to tackling our labor deficit, and those whose post-graduation work permits are about to expire are already well-integrated into the Canadian labor market and work in essential sectors across the nation. Each year, tens of thousands of people are successful in making the transition from temporary residency to Canada permanent residence, including more than 157,000 former students who did so in 2021. Of these, more than 88,000 made the switch from a post-graduation work permit to permanent status without any intermediate steps.
Candidates will be able to continue supporting the Canadian economy and addressing the labor need while acquiring useful work experience and building their Express Entry profiles thanks to this second open work permit.
We have increased the amount of Canadian permanent residence decisions made in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 in order to aid in the rapid immigration of even more qualified workers to Canada. Through our efforts, Canada welcomed nearly 113,000 new Canadian permanent residents in the first three months of 2022. Between January 1 and March 31, 2022, we made over 156,000 final decisions on applications for Canadian permanent residence.
Additionally, we processed almost twice as many work permit applications in the first quarter of 2022 as we did in the same period in 2021, or more than 100,000.
Foreign nationals visiting Canada in August 2020 will now be able to apply for an employer-specific work permit without leaving the country thanks to another temporary governmental policy. This temporary public policy has been extended through February 28, 2023, in recognition that individuals with visitor status in Canada may also choose to stay and find significant jobs.
For those who sought Canadian permanent residency through the temporary resident to permanent resident pathway last year, the Minister finally unveiled additional measures. The temporary pathway was introduced in 2021 to encourage a variety of people who were currently employed in Canada to apply for Canada permanent residence. The processing of applications will continue for a while even if it has been stopped for new applications since November 2021.
- Applicants who apply for an open work permit while waiting for their Canada permanent residence application to be approved will be eligible to get work permits valid through the end of 2024;
- Applicants will no longer be obliged to remain in Canada while their application is being reviewed.
- To support family reunification, immediate family members who are outside of Canada and who were included in a principal applicant's Canada permanent residence application will be eligible for their own open work permit. This will ensure that all Canadian permanent residence applications will be completed before applicants will need to apply to extend their temporary status once more.
These actions assist the government's broader initiatives to alleviate the labor crisis and guarantee that Canadian firms have the personnel they require.
Quotes
"Canada requires to consider all choices since the economy is extending more rapidly than firms can find and recruit new representatives. This is necessary so that we have the talent and labor to support our growth. These measures aim to address urgent needs in all sectors across the nation while giving more opportunities for recent graduates and other applicants to build their lives in Canada and continue to contribute to our recovery and long-term prosperity. Canada Immigration will be essential to easing our labor shortage.
– Most Honorable Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Sean Fraser
Quick facts
- For people hoping to move for all time through the Federal Skilled Worker Program, the Federal Skilled Trades Program, the Canadian Experience Class, and a portion of the Provincial Nominee Program, Express Entry is Canada's lead application the executives’ framework.
- Roughly 95,000 post-graduation work grants lapse between January 31 and December 31, 2022.
- Applicants submit positioned profiles through Express Entry, and applicants with the most noteworthy ranking points are sometimes welcomed to apply for Canada Permanent Residence. We gauge that nearly 50,000 candidates could benefit from this transitory arrangement, despite the fact that numerous previous students with terminated work permits have proactively done the change to Canada permanent residency, applied for Canada Permanent Residence, or been conceded an alternate sort of work visa.
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