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Nordic Star said:
and how much time did it took from an update in UCI to MEP?
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Not sure but from the 1st email I received from Irrc informing me of 'changes in my application status' (assuming that was the said 'update in UCI'), the interval was 47 days to MEP. Hope I understood your question

edit: My guess is that when I recieved the email, that was when R10 was passed and my application was put in queue and thus allocated a UCI to be picked for processing and then only on day 68 thats when my meds were passed. Idk?
 
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@javillaxy , also let's see legalfalcon's view on this

The crs tool itself asks for the highest qualification
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

4) What is your level of education?
Enter the highest level of education for which you:
  • earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
  • had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)
Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.
 
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@house, can my partner evaluate only her diploma and first-degree certs to lower CRS and fall within the OINP band? She has a Master's already. Will this fly and not cause misrepresentation issues? @legalfalcon What's your view, sir?
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This is misrepresentation, you will need to add your masters in personal history section and the VO will definitely reject your application after seeing that.
 
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dankboi said:
  • had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)
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Thank you. I'm thinking what if the first degree is the highest that she has an ECA done for? The catch is that WES and others specifically request the real highest to issue an ECA. Let's wait for his view.
 
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fsw's trying to integrate to canadian economy

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Canadian economy = flipping burgers at McDonalds and making sandwiches at Subway

That's why there's an upper CRS cap. I have only myself to blame for choosing to immigrate to such a dumbass country. Gonna get my TN visa as soon as I can and fuck off from that dump.
 
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Air Canada, Westjet and Pearson asks feds to drop mandatory COVID tests for arrivals

Elimination would free up to 8,000 PCR tests a day, joint letter notes

Canada should drop the requirement for mandatory PCR testing for airport arrivals, a joint letter by the chief medical officers of health for Air Canada, WestJet and Toronto Pearson airport says.

The elimination of this measure would free up to 8,000 PCR tests a day that could be used more effectively by schools, hospitals and long-term care (LTC) facilities, the letter says.

“As every person travelling to Canada must take a PCR test prior to getting on a plane inbound to Canada and must be fully vaccinated, there is no good public health rationale for a second test upon arrival,” the medical officers say. “We know that the primary concern for Omicron is in the community. By extension, the primary need for testing is in our community — not at our airports.”

The open letter was addressed to federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos, Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott, and both the federal and provincial chief medical officers of health.

The top health officials were asked for permission to revert to surveillance arrival testing of international air passengers.

Mandatory isolation of international arrivals should be required if the traveller is exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 or tested positive on a surveillance test, but not of arrivals who are asymptomatic after receiving a negative pre-departure test to Canada, the letter says

“As the government has ramped up testing at airports for international arrivals, we have seen frontline workers struggle to get PCR tests and lab processing capacity decrease significantly,” the medical officers say. “In the most recent week of reported data, over 123,000 PCR tests were conducted at Canada’s airports with an average positivity rate of 3%.

“Meanwhile, the positivity rate in our communities is now approximately 30% and could be higher due to the underreporting of positivity from a lack of tests.”
 
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A bit of fun with a video about what would Canada have to do in case of a civil war in the United States.

The video starts at the point where the author talks about how to handle the US asylum seekers.

 
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Canada to announce Immigration Levels Plan 2022-2024 by February

ANALYSIS: This will be the first Immigration Levels Plan announcement since October 2020. It will be announced by February 11, 2022.

The Canadian government will provide a major update by February when it announces its Immigration Levels Plan 2022-2024.

The announcement will contain Canada’s immigration targets for this year, and the next two years, as well as the number of new immigrants Canada will seek to welcome under its various economic, family, and humanitarian class programs. It will be the first such announcement since Canada made the surprise announcement in October 2020 it would seek to welcome over 400,000 new immigrants per year moving forward, or about 40,000 more per year than its previous targets.

Under Canada’s main immigration law, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), the federal government must make this announcement by November 1st of each year when Parliament is sitting. If Parliament is not sitting, the announcement must be made within 30 sitting days of Parliament reconvening.

The announcement usually occurs by November 1st of each year, but it did not happen in 2021 since the Canadian government dissolved Parliament due to its September election. Following the election, a new session of Parliament began on November 22nd.

Parliament sat for 20 days before taking a holiday break. It will reconvene on January 31st which means immigration minister Sean Fraser must make the new levels plan announcement by Friday February 11th at the latest. In recent history, the Canadian government has made the announcement by the deadline and has rarely announced it earlier unless the deadline fell on a weekend. If this remains the case this year, the announcement will likely occur in the second half of the week of February 7.

Of note is that the Canadian government will also very likely table a second levels plan this year by November 1st. The Immigration Levels Plan 2023-2025 will be the regularly scheduled announcement, and will go ahead as planned barring the very unlikely scenario the Canadian government decides to hold an election for the second consecutive year.

Under the current Immigration Levels Plan 2021-2023, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is looking to welcome 411,000 new permanent residents to Canada this year. In 2021, IRCC achieved its goal of landing 401,000 immigrants which is the highest level in Canadian history. IRCC made the target last year amid the challenging pandemic environment by focusing on transitioning temporary residents currently living in Canada to permanent residence.

The current plan aims to welcome 241,500 economic class immigrants to Canada this year through the likes of Express Entry, the Provincial Nominee Program, Quebec’s programs, among other pathways. This accounts for 59 per cent of Canada’s immigration target.

IRCC is looking to welcome 103,500 family class immigrants through the Spouses, Partners, and Children Program and the Parents and Grandparents Program. This is 26 per cent of IRCC’s immigration target.

The remaining 66,000, or 15 per cent of the newcomer target, will be welcomed to Canada on refugee and humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

These proportions have been sustained since the mid 1990s when the Canadian government decided to focus admissions on economic class arrivals to help alleviate the economic and fiscal challenges arising from Canada’s aging population and low birth rate. This year’s plans are likely to stick closely to these proportions.

What may change, however, is the total number of immigrants Canada chooses to target in the coming years. On the one hand, the Canadian government may be satisfied with their already ambitious targets and decide to keep them as is. This would mean simply continuing to slowly increase annual admissions now that the baseline is over 400,000 immigrants. By way of comparison, the baseline was about 250,000 immigrants annually up until 2016. Another consideration is the Canadian government may want to refrain from significant increases so it can work towards tackling its backlogs which currently stand at 1.8 million permanent and temporary resident applicants waiting in the queue.

On the other hand, Fraser has indicated an openness to increasing the targets even further depending on stakeholder feedback. The minister noted he would listen to the likes of community groups and employers to see whether they have a desire to welcome more immigrants.

One may argue that Canada’s immigration targets are already high, and the government should put the brakes on higher levels for a few reasons. Backlogs need to be contained, communities across the country have housing affordability issues, and historically speaking, welcoming immigrants amid periods of economic downturn has hurt the labour force outcomes of newcomers.

Conversely, proponents of higher levels may argue that Canada needs higher levels to support its post-pandemic economic and fiscal recovery, and that more immigrants are needed to alleviate labour shortages. Higher targets can also be justified on the grounds they may allow IRCC to reduce its backlogs more quickly. In addition, higher targets may be necessary to accommodate the government’s goal of resettling 40,000 Afghan refugees.

What is certain is we will not be guessing for long as the February 11 deadline is just around the corner.
 
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