No less than 40% of our economic immigrants will be international students

[Saskatchewan_Regina]

Here's what John McCallum had to say in the House of Commons.


November 15th, 2:55 p.m.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
http://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/15/john-mccallum-1/
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Mr. Speaker, I believe that the best potential future Canadians are
international students. They are educated, they are relatively young, they
speak English or French, and they know something about the country. We are
in competition for their services with other countries.

That is why, yesterday, I announced changes in additional points for those
students so that no less than 40% of our economic immigrants will in fact be
international students.
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According to 2017 immigration level, the total of economic immigration is 172,500, so 172,500*0.4=69,000.

 

[Innana]

Beautiful news and rightly deserved. I hope the percentage keeps going even higher.

 

[patricia.hple]

OH wow. this news is something worth discussing!

 

[betty44]

Here's what John McCallum had to say in the House of Commons.


November 15th, 2:55 p.m.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
http://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/15/john-mccallum-1/
----------------------------------------------------------

Mr. Speaker, I believe that the best potential future Canadians are
international students. They are educated, they are relatively young, they
speak English or French, and they know something about the country. We are
in competition for their services with other countries.

That is why, yesterday, I announced changes in additional points for those
students so that no less than 40% of our economic immigrants will in fact be
international students.

According to 2017 immigration level, the total of economic immigration is 172,500, so 172,500*0.4=69,000.

 

[Elrud]

That's the strategy to attract international students.

I don't think it will be 40% on federal level, Express Entry directly through this additional points, but rather most international students will come from the strict PNP like BC, Nova Scotia and the like where quota has been increased

 

[Saskatchewan_Regina]

Sorry, this part was not included in the speaking:

According to 2017 immigration level, the total of economic immigration is 172,500, so 172,500*0.4=69,000.

I separated them now.

 

[Calgary2014]

This is not true. I was graduated from Canada with a Master's degree. I have 4 years of experience in my home country and 1 year in Canada. CLB 7 CLB 7 CLB 9 and CLB 10. my score after the changes will be 464. I should probably go after ECA for my wife to get another 10 points to have a chance. Otherwise I am not optimistic getting ITA with 464

 

[Saskatchewan_Regina]

This is not true. I was graduated from Canada with a Master's degree. I have 4 years of experience in my home country and 1 year in Canada. CLB 7 CLB 7 CLB 9 and CLB 10. my score after the changes will be 464. I should probably go after ECA for my wife to get another 10 points to have a chance. Otherwise I am not optimistic getting ITA with 464

I think you will have a good chance to get ITA early next year, if not late this year.

 

[Innana]

This is not true. I was graduated from Canada with a Master's degree. I have 4 years of experience in my home country and 1 year in Canada. CLB 7 CLB 7 CLB 9 and CLB 10. my score after the changes will be 464. I should probably go after ECA for my wife to get another 10 points to have a chance. Otherwise I am not optimistic getting ITA with 464

You don't have a good score because your language score is too low. Change those 7s to 10 and your score will jump big time. You are studying here, General IELTs shouldn't be an issue for you

 

[positiveenergylittlesun]

I agree with you and take the deduction of points for LIMA into consideration, the draw score is expecting to drop too. So just sit tight and relax!

I think you will have a good chance to get ITA early next year, if not late this year.

 

[mukulabd]

Here's what John McCallum had to say in the House of Commons.


November 15th, 2:55 p.m.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
http://openparliament.ca/debates/2016/11/15/john-mccallum-1/
----------------------------------------------------------

Mr. Speaker, I believe that the best potential future Canadians are
international students. They are educated, they are relatively young, they
speak English or French, and they know something about the country. We are
in competition for their services with other countries.

That is why, yesterday, I announced changes in additional points for those
students so that no less than 40% of our economic immigrants will in fact be
international students.
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According to 2017 immigration level, the total of economic immigration is 172,500, so 172,500*0.4=69,000.

What does this mean? What if they are still not able to meet their "no less than 40% intl students" requirement even after awarding 30 points? They don't have a separate category for intl students. So ultimately it comes down to CRS score in EE pool.

 

[Innana]

What does this mean? What if they are still not able to meet their "no less than 40% intl students" requirement even after awarding 30 points? They don't have a separate category for intl students. So ultimately it comes down to CRS score in EE pool.

There are around 64K PNP getting PR each year and a large number of them are int student. On top of that, there is a large group that gets the score without the need for PNP, those are people who score over 470 with masters degree or high and a few years of experience (here and at home combined). I'd say there is more supply than there is demand, I'd not be worried about "not having enough international students for 40% threshold" at all .

 

[astralsource]

So basically students will come instead od Macdonald's workers LOL.. And the rest are ordinary FSW. Better than before. Old system was maximally unfair and misused.

 

[mukulabd]

There are around 64K PNP getting PR each year and a large number of them are int student. On top of that, there is a large group that gets the score without the need for PNP, those are people who score over 470 with masters degree or high and a few years of experience (here and at home combined). I'd say there is more supply than there is demand, I'd not be worried about "not having enough international students for 40% threshold" at all .

Right, but PNP is a separate category with its own quota. So I think that 40% threshold is combining both PNP and without.

 

[Abul Aziz]

+1 for this update