DigitalDestiny said:Appreciate your optimism and positivity @bestofluck. I hope your prediction comes true.
Also, I might be mis-understanding but OINP appears to be saying that they are only allowed to select 5500 immigrants (including dependents) for 2016
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Source : http://www.ontarioimmigration.ca/en/pnp/OI_PNPNEW.html
There are many ways to immigrate to Ontario:
The federal government determines the maximum number of nominations Ontario can award annually. Each year, there are about 300,000 immigrants that come to Canada. Of these, Ontario is allowed to select 5,500 through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) in 2016. This program, which represents only 1.8 per cent of total immigration to Canada, is targeted towards filling labour market gaps with skilled workers. It is just one option for immigrating to Ontario.
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LET US READ BETWEEN THE LINES AND USE SOME LOGIC.
01. If what you interpret is right than why would they send 6000 PT ?
When they send 6000 PT it means they expect 5500 (nominations with 10 percent rejections)
( if they guessed 3 applicants/file they would issue maximum 2000 PT NOI and issuing 6000 cannot be a mistake)
02. IF we consider they are not able to express everything in words there is something between the lines. I would read the above as under
Ontario is allowed to select 5,500 through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) in 2016
Ontario is allowed to select by 5,500 nominations through the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) in 2016
This can be proved by the same source you have posted and looking to their update on February 4 2015, which says the same thing is nominations and
and not applicants.
February 4, 2015
Every year, Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program's nomination target is capped by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Ontario’s allocation for 2015 has been set at 5,200. This includes nominations for both PNP and Express Entry.
Ontario is currently developing its approach to Express Entry. Information will be posted on our website as soon as it becomes available.
http://www.ontarioimmigration.ca/en/pnp/OI_PNPNEW.html
( English has never been that expressive language and we must always read between the lines or we always end up interpreting wrong things)
03. 5500 is nominations. They give 600 points for each nominations. OINP has no right to calculate number of applicants. They just have to issue nomination based on number of applications and give 600 points. After the ITA they are further divided into number of applicants because the cap of 300000 is only for IRCC and no one else has anything to do with numbers. In short OINP only gives 600 points to 5500 applications received and their job is done.
04. the province has already received the sufficient number of OINP applications to meet its 2016 federal allocation.
This means they consider number of applications as number of nominations
I strongly believe 5500 is the number of nominations and not applicants or PR because OINP has nothing to do with number of applicants or PR. They always
use the word nomination for each application.
05/ Looking to other provinces and comparing, NB was given additional quota of 150 and they accepted 150 more applications. All the province consider each application as nomination and dont go by number of applicants. Same is the case with susketchwen and other provinces including Qubec. When they accept 1500 applications it means all will get PR not considering the number pf applicants.
on the lighter side
My English is same as OINP officer who writes the updates. So only I can interpret him well. you all have perfect English so you take each word seriously.
;D ;D