Thanks for that "Ray of hope" !139 Days
4 Months 18 days
Since last FSW / ALL PROGRAMS draw
Is there any hope on PNP draws??
If I get selected by province and gained the additional +600 points, any chance for ITA in the next draw??
Are the 2021 ITAs strictly for inland applicants even PNP nomination holders?
Any hope is appreciated!!!!
Hang on guys. Things are changing fast. Borders will start to open in a few months, it is worth sticking it out until the fall to see what happens then.
he could have mentioned something about FSWs in his statement! tired of this much indeterminacy!Canada Will Hit 2021 Immigration Targets Despite COVID-19, Says Immigration Minister
May 10, 2021
Ottawa decided to make up for that shortfall and set ambitious immigration targets for this year and the next two.
Its 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan has set immigration targets of about one per cent of the Canadian population for each of those years. That’s 401,000 permanent residents this year, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023.
The federal government’s previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.
Ottawa Takes Unprecedented Steps To Bolster Immigration
There has been doubt expressed about Ottawa’s ability to hit the new, higher immigration targets.
In a Royal Bank of Canada economic report, senior economist Andrew Agopsowicz wrote that Canada was more likely to only be able to attract 275,000 immigrants this year due to the ongoing travel restrictions.
Since then, though, IRCC has responded by slashing the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) scores in an Express Entry draw that saw more than five times as many Invitations to Apply (ITAs) issued as usual.
Ottawa followed that by launching six new pathways to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers and international grads. The cap on anglophone applicants under three of those new steams was 90,000 but there is no cap on the number of francophone and bilingual candidates.
Cyrille Simard, vice-president of business development for the francophone network of community colleges in New Brunswick, the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB), has welcomed the new pathways to permanent residency for francophone international grads and temporary foreign workers.
Francophone Pathways To PR Draw Few Applications
In the other two steams for anglophones, one for healthcare workers and another for other essential, non-healthcare workers, the response has been more muted.
As of Monday afternoon, only 1,071 applications had been received by healthcare workers already in Canada for the 20,000 spots for them and 7,048 applications by anglophone temporary foreign workers had come in for the 30,000 spots for other essential workers outside of the healthcare sector.
That, though, is a far greater response to the anglophone streams than to the francophone ones.
As of Monday afternoon, only 98 French-speaking or bilingual international grads had applied under the stream for them. Among the other two streams for francophones or bilingual applicants, a mere 11 applications for permanent residency had come in through the healthcare worker stream and 282 for the stream for essential workers not in the healthcare sector.
The three streams for francophone and bilingual temporary foreign workers and international grads are open to an unlimited number of applicants.
The new pathways are being touted as vital to bolster Canada’s healthcare system and industries providing essential services, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“One in three workers in our healthcare system is an immigrant,” said Mendicino when the new pathways were launched. “That’s why this new pathway is so important.”
Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of the Fraser Health Authority, agreed.
Canada Will Hit 2021 Immigration Targets Despite COVID-19, Says Immigration Minister
May 10, 2021
Canada will hit its immigration targets for this year despite the COVID-19 global pandemic, which has slowed the arrival of newcomers to the country to a trickle, says the federal immigration minister.
“I am confident that we are doing everything we can to meet that target and we will meet that target and the reason it is important to hit that target is because immigrants create jobs … and allow us to meet our workforce needs,” said Marco Mendicino, minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Monday.
Late last year, Canada identified immigration as crucially important in helping the country rebuild its economy after the financial blow of the COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the world.
Although the country has continued to accept and process applications during the pandemic, border closures and changes to the way offices operated with the public health restrictions led to a massive drop in immigration last year.
Ottawa decided to make up for that shortfall and set ambitious immigration targets for this year and the next two.
Its 2021‒2023 Immigration Levels Plan has set immigration targets of about one per cent of the Canadian population for each of those years. That’s 401,000 permanent residents this year, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023.
The federal government’s previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.
Ottawa Takes Unprecedented Steps To Bolster Immigration
There has been doubt expressed about Ottawa’s ability to hit the new, higher immigration targets.
Yup, if you get a provincial nomination (you'll have to wait for that to finish processing first - Ontario's takes 60 to 90 days), then you will be eligible to be drawn in the Federal PNP draws that are still occurring now. They don't discern between inland and outland PNP candidates. You will of course still be subject to the current travel restrictions, so even if you get PR, you can't arrive in Canada. But it's something, in the meantime. If you have a path to PNP, take it.Is there any hope on PNP draws??
If I get selected by province and gained the additional +600 points, any chance for ITA in the next draw??
Are the 2021 ITAs strictly for inland applicants even PNP nomination holders?
Any hope is appreciated!!!!