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Published July 13, 2012 at 05:00 | Updated July 13, 2012 at 5:00
Economic Immigration: Quebec closes the door
(Quebec) collapsing under the applications for selection certificates submitted by foreign nationals in the category of economic immigration, the Department of Immigration and Cultural Communities is compelled to suspend receipt until March 31, 2013.
However, this exceptional measure does not affect the handling of cases of foreign workers who are recruited by Quebec companies to meet specific needs - and desperate - labor.
"Historically, we always get a number of immigration applications was relatively balanced with respect to our objectives determined by our annual planning and our ability to process files," said Montserrat Escola, the communications department of the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities (MICC). "For three years, however, we receive a volume of applications that significantly exceed our needs and our processing capacity."
Thus, the group of foreign nationals in the category of economic immigration - that is to say, skilled workers, immigrant investors, entrepreneurs and the self - the number of applications received by the Department literally exploded. 30 000 applications in 2008, this figure rose to 65,000 in 2011, Escola said Ms. Sun.
Faced with this avalanche of requests and considerations of prudent management, the Council of Ministers, under the recommendation of the Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities, Kathleen Weil, adopted June 27, a decree authorizing the suspension of receipt of applications for selection certificates submitted by foreign nationals in the category of economic migration for a period up to March 31, 2013.
Annual Immigration Plan
The Immigration Act allows Quebec, in effect, to the Minister to suspend the receipt of applications for selection certificates for a specified period if it determines that the number of requests for a category of foreign nationals will, significantly, higher than the estimate provided in Annual Immigration Plan or that applications will be processed in a class at the expense of other demands given the capacity and integration of Quebec.
You should know that 70% of the 51,737 immigrants to Quebec in 2011 came from the category of economic immigration, mainly from the subset of skilled workers. The other gateways permanent immigration are those of family reunification (20%), Refugees (9%) and on humanitarian grounds (1%).
Immigration Plan provides for the issue of Quebec, for the year 2012, 39 000 and 41 000 selection certificates to foreign nationals belonging to the subset of skilled workers and members of their families accompanying them . However, the MICC has received 51,111 applications for selection certificates Quebec for fiscal year 2010-2011 and 53 890 for 2011-2012.
In the case of sub-categories of immigrant investors, entrepreneurs and self-employed, the Plan provides for the issue of immigration from 9000 to 10,000 certificates. MICC has received 9,433 requests in 2010-2011 and 7454 last year for these three subcategories.
In its planning immigration levels 2012-2015, the ministry aims a relative stabilization of the volume of admissions to 50,000 people a year. He also wants to maintain an annual minimum of 65% share of economic immigrants in all admissions.
In addition, Ms. Escola was keen to reassure companies that travel the world for finding workers not found in Quebec they will not be penalized by the measure that just passed. Instead, the handling of cases of foreign workers hired by companies to fill specific needs for labor will be even more speed
