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High-quality Jobs Decline in Canada and Self-Employment Sores High

LESS LUCRATIVE JOBS – Of late, there has been a decrease in lucrative and satisfying jobs for not just the native Canadians but for the immigrant community as well.

As a matter of fact, there are chances that there can be a lot many sectors in which Canada can lose jobs in the near future.

AMBIGUOUS STATISTICS – The recently declared statistics regarding employment creation were sufficiently optimistic to bring the unemployment rate to 7.1 per cent, a 3-year low. A number of people saw it as an indication that after two months of modest employment increase, the Canadian economy was recovering from the past slumps regardless of apprehensions that the economy was likely to be hit hard by another phase of slump. However, on the face of it there is a lot more than what meets the eye.

THE REALITY – As stated, digging deeper into reality would give us the real and harsh picture. To be blunt, the statistics could be absolute unreliable. Of the 61,000 newly created jobs, more than 50 per cent can be attributed to the commencement of the new academic session. A full 38,000 of the jobs created in September were made of the education support workers rejoining their positions post a summer long break from their duties.

DYNAMIC JOBS – About 64 per cent of those new jobs were labeled as "self-employed." This categorization has always been daunting for economists as the self-employment division is extremely dynamic and changes every month. During economic slumps, self-employment numbers will increase as lately dislocated employees may turn to self-employment as a measure in the interim to link the distance between job relocations. However, the self-employment category often ignores when employment is increasing as self-employed workers resume to the labor-force and the extra benefits that accompany full-time service.

MORE TROUBLE – Apart from that, the added trouble that StatsCan labor report brings forth is the list of sectors that have to part with positions through the month. The financial services carried on to lay-off workers with the departure of a new 35,000 last month. These jobs are likely to be lucrative and will probably be hard to replace. As well, the manufacturing sector added to its losses previously this year as 24,000 important manufacturing positions vanished.

INFERIOR TO THE PAST – Though it is encouraging to see the way Canada is generating jobs for its citizens, ecstasy ought to be raged with truth. And the truth is that -- for lack of a better term -- lucrative jobs in Canada go on disappearing. This is not in any case destined as a condemnation of self-employment or some other profession, but a lot many placements that are created in the present are inferior to the ones lost!

 

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Canadian Immigration Visas are running out at a High Speed

Around 10,000 visas are to be allotted as according to the Canadian Immigration Visas are running out quickly due to the high number of applicants.

It’s an alarm for all those aspirants who want to go and explore the growth opportunities available in the Canadian economy, the visas are expected to run out at a fast speed due to high number of aspirants.

The Immigration Scheme:

As per a well known scheme from the Canadian government that offers working opportunities to foreign aspirants interested to come and offer their skilled services to the country, Canadian Immigration offers around 10,000 visas to the experts in different fields from the 1st of July 2011 to the 30th of June of the next year. According to the stated rules only a maximum of 500 skilled workers visas will be assigned for each of the occupation category.

Categories in which to apply:

As per the stated rules if the aspirants lies under the following given categories they are eligible to apply under the scheme. The applicants are requested to apply under heads of following: one is Restaurant and Food Service Managers that is for the restaurant industry. Second is for the Pharmacists referring to those having medical knowledge, then are Biologists and Related Scientists and Specialist Physician is the last.

Reached the caps:

Some professional cases offered under this category have already reached the cap. As per the data collected recently figures show that the applications related to the professional and skilled jobs in Business service sector in the management field and the professional nurses have reached the highest number.

Other Alternative:

In case the aspirants have the employment opportunities offered by a country’s employer with the support of the country’s labor sector and the positive opinion of the Human Resources and Social Development Canada, the aspirant is not required to apply under these categories they can directly make it to Canada and join their job positions. Such schemes are only for those who do not have pre-job offers from the employers and still want to work in the country.

Current Stats Says:

According to the statistics turned out on the 11th of October 2011, around 2,768 visas are already allotted out of the available 10,000 visas. Here are some of the details of various categories showing the number of applications submitted: Restaurant and Food Service Managers – 260, Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners 41, Biologists and Related Scientist-161, General Practitioners and Family Physicians -129

 

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Reduce backlog by cutting Canada immigration applications-Kenney

Canada immigration minister Jason Kenney has stressed on cutting the number of Canada visa applications as a solution to the problem of increasing Canada visa backlogs.

Canada visa backlogs have been going up considerably, especially for grandparents and parents category.

Canada's popularity-root cause of immigration backlogs—Kenney made no bones about admitting that the reason for increasing Canada visa backlogs is due to increased popularity of the nation as an immigration destination.

He said the previous government has removed upper limit on the number of immigrants to be admitted into Canada and its this irresponsible decision that has thrown the whole immigration system out of gear.

While discussing the issue of immigration backlogs in the nation before a committee of House of Commons, he said that Canada's backlog of immigration applications is increasing up day by day even though the nation has been giving approval to around 254,000 Canada visa applications each year.

According to official figures, as many as one million applicants are still their turn for immigration to Canada. Out of around 420,000 Canada visa applications received by Canada immigration department-CIC (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)-nearly10 percent are rejected by the department.

Reduce Canada family class visas--Minister Kenney has pointed out towards cutting family class visas for reducing backlogs in Canada immigration. It is a good way is to cut the number of applicants accepted under parents and grandparents visa category, Kenney asserted.

In the year 2010, Canada immigration department accepted a total of 37,500 Canada visa applications for grandparents and parents category, however, the number of applicants admitted into Canada in 2010 were 18,500.

He said that even if Canada doubles the number of applicants to be admitted into the nation each year under the family class, the backlog will not go down, admitted Kenney.

Talking about other nations' requirements for getting a family class visa, Kenney said that the conditions are quite tough as compared to Canada.

Most of the nations ask an applicant wanting to immigrate to have a minimum level of family income along with a bond or private health insurance for grandparent and parent applications, he affirmed. The minister wants the House of Commons committee to find out some solution to deal with Canada visa backlogs.

 

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Long-haul truck drivers permanent in British Columbia PNP

The reformed British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program will include long-haul truck drivers permanently.

This is in response to a growing demand for long-haul truck drivers in B.C. (British Columbia).

Prior to these changes, a pilot project scheme was meant to consider immigration of long-haul truck drivers in

B.C. Long-haul truck drivers in great demand in B.C.-- The BCTA(British Columbia Trucking Association) has been urging for inclusion of truck drivers permanently in the BC PNP since the province was in short supply of such drivers while the demand for them was growing at an increasing rate in the provincial labor market.

However, head of the North American Truckers Guild, Larry Hall had criticized such a step saying BC was misleading potential immigrant workers by overestimating the earning capacity of long-haul truck drivers. And, at last, their demand has been given a green signal by the government.

The BC PNP will now include long-haul truck drivers under the Semi-skilled and Entry Level category. PNPs (Provincial Nominee Program) are aimed to enable foreigners with requisite skills and qualifications to move to various Canadian provinces.

The PNPs are designed in accordance with specific demands as well as labor markets of the individual provincial economies of Canada.

BC to target foreigners under PNP—BC says it will target immigrants having specific skill-sets and qualifications to come and live in British Columbia permanently. The province has a host of employment opportunities and will be inviting applicants from various corners of the world with special focus on immigrants from India, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Although, the current annual limit for PNP nominations is 3,500, B.C. has asked Ottawa to increase the upper limit of PNP nominations so as to enable more immigrants to come to British Columbia and work here.

New changes in B.C. PNP will make it more effective in increasing development of the economy by promoting creation of jobs here, stated Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, Pat Bell.

B.C. PNP is crucial part of the job plan of the province, added Bell. The program results in job-creating investments and also provides workers with required skills needed for key sectors of the British Columbia, he claimed.

 

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Strict rules expected to quicken the asylum claims

The new rules implemented by immigration authorities may lead to increase in number of asylum claims made by the foreign students those who tend to get affected by them.

Immigration authorities have introduced tough rules for the foreign students by limiting the duration of their stay in the country after completion of their courses.

It is expected that these strict rules would lead to an increase in asylum claims among the thousands who would be facing problems to stay in the country and now would not be able to get permanent resident ship of the country.

Current situation:

As per the statistics, there is an immense increase noticed in number of visa cancellation by the immigration authorities during the previous year; according to the records figures rose has been recorded up to 37 per cent, leading to a decrease in number of students who were not serious about their studies and were not adhering the rules and regulations of universities and colleges.

Now the tighter rules have been introduced for the students so that they should not use their study visa as a gate crash instrument for staying in the country after completion of their course and in future years settling here and attaining permanent resident ship status.

According to the recent policies implemented by the immigration authorities foreign students completing their degree or courses from the universities are eligible to work in the country for the subsequent two years only.

The students pursuing vocational courses and training are not eligible to stay in the country under the above criteria, giving another reason that adds to the illegal immigrant population of the country.

Authorities fear:

As now such students are trying to extend their time to stay in the country, hoping against the hope that they may attain eligibility for permanent resident ship, but with the new rules imposed by federal government and now when it is in action it is not possible.

According to the immigration experts they expect high possibilities that around ten thousands of overseas students are looking for such extension which may later create problems for them by increasing pressure asylum claims in the coming times. The increasing number of claims by the students will add to their existing situation.

As per them this situation is going to affect the reliability of immigration system and the refugee or the asylum program quiet adversely. This would also lead to questionable situation for the general immigration system of the country.

The experts are hoping that the authorities have thought the way out to solve these problems and also could deal effectively the surging number of claims.

 

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Canada plans conditional spousal visas

Canadian government is planning to introduce conditional spousal visas shortly in a bid to curb fake marriages.

As per the reports, the government will introduce this Canada visa by the end of this year.

Growing Canada marriage visa frauds—Canada conditional spousal visa will be aimed to control the growing number of marriage frauds especially from Asian nations including India and China. It has been noticed that in majority of fake marriages, wedding pictures are Photoshopped for showing faces of both husband and wives on the wedding photos.

This has been confirmed by Canada immigration minister Jason Kenney while admitting an increasing number of fake marriages by aspirants of Canada permanent residency or Canada citizenship.

By seeing a number of pictures of wedding reception, it became evident that fake marriages were being organized just to fool immigration officials.

And on visiting some wedding palaces, it was clear that marriages were nothing but a game of a cat and mouse, added Kenney.

Canada conditional sponsored visa—As per the plans by the federal government, a sponsored spouse will be required to stay in the relationship for a minimum period of time before becoming eligible for Canada permanent residency.

Currently, the minimum time period has been stated by Ottawa as two years or a little more.

Apart from this minimum period of remaining in the relationship, the government of Canada intends to have a five-year ban before allowing sponsored spouses to offer sponsorship to a new spouse for coming to Canada.

Planned reforms in Canada marriage visas will help in immediate deportation of the sponsored spouses not abiding by the rules. So, any sponsored spouse found to have lied for coming to Canada will be deported by the immigration officials.

Opposition to Canada conditional sponsored visas—An NDP MPm, Don Davies sees no use in introduction of Canada conditional sponsored visa. Davies says the government should work towards reforming the screening process rather than introducing a Canada conditional spousal visa.

He fears that such rules might lead to domestic abuse in case the relationship fails. A couple will be forced to live together even if the marriage fails, quipped Davies.

 

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Canada introduces new Super visas for family reunion


Canada has introduced new multi-entry, two year super visa for facilitating family reunification in Canada.

The latest step comes following a noticeable increase in the wait times for Canada family class applications to around seven years or even longer.

Canada super visas for parents and grandparents-Canada immigration minister Jason Kenney said the wait times for Canada family visa applicants will continue to grow longer and longer unless some action is taken by the government of Canada.

Hence, the recent step is aimed to cut wait times, he added. For cutting the backlog, reduce wait times and speed up the inflow of immigrants, Canada needed some action to ensure the immigrants that the family class program is sustainable, Kenney asserted.

Canada multiple entry, ‘Super visa’—Canada multiple-entry ‘Super Visa’ is going to have a validity period of up to 10 years, revealed Canada immigration officials. It will enable applicants to stay in Canada for a period of up to 24 months before applying for a renewal of their Canada visas, Canada immigration officials added.

The officials further informed that Canada will start Canada multiple-entry Super visas with effect from 1st December 2011 onwards. Such Canada visas will be issued within a period of eight weeks from the date of application on an average, the officials claimed.

This step by Canada immigration department is aimed to help parents and grandparents of Canada permanent residents to come to Canada multiple times on the same visa as visitors and stay here for a maximum period of two years each time they come to Canada.

Canada to increase intake of parents and grandparents next year—Canada is also going to increase the annual intake of parents and grandparents wanting to come to Canada from next year. As per the plans, Canada will admit a total of 25,000 applicants under Canada family class visas in 2012 as against the current annual limit of 17,500.

This means an increase of nine percent in the percentage of Canada family class immigrants among the total Canada immigrants coming to the nation each year, the immigration minister added. The immigration minister Kenney also maintained that Canada will admit fewer live-in caregivers, business-class immigrants and spouses next year.

 

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Canada may accept only up to 10000 new immigrants in 2012


Canada planning to accept 10,000 skilled foreign workers in the coming year 2012, in order to satisfy their labor market demands and also boosting the economic development of the country.

Recently as announced by the Canadian immigration authorities, they are planning to issue 10,000 skilled workers visas for the coming year 2012. Such a step has been announced to attract highly skilled professional and foreign workers for contributing in economic development of the country.

Plans Says:

According to this plan, the immigration department is working to clear the backlogs of the aspirants pending since years back. It further says that till the year around 47, 000 to 47,400 foreign skilled immigrants are expected to get a green light from Canadian Immigration department.

Importance of this Plan:

The immigration department is planning this hike in view to fulfill the increasing market demands of skilled workers in the country and it will also help them to clear previous year’s backlog, allowing them to grant visas to the deserving applicants.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney strongly recommends the plan and states that economic development is at the government priority list. He believes that the foreign skilled workers are the bright future of the country’s immigration. As the country have experienced positive feedback and help by foreign skilled immigrants and have actively contributed to the international competitiveness of the country in the global market. It has been found through several reports as much of 95 per cent of surveyed employers feel that foreign workers surprisingly meet all their expectationsl.

Best Time for Aspirants:

This scheme is best opportunity for those who relevant qualification and also the experience to realize their dreams in the country. Those eligible under the foreign skilled workers categories, experts in their own field, should make full use of this plan and should apply well in time as such the forms could be filled and filled till the February next year only.

Other Increases:

Giving out the further Canada’s next year’s immigration plans minister specifies country’s immigration targets for other categories.

The immigration department is also planning to initiate increase under the foreign student’s categories and also under the skilled temporary foreign workers, who can further get their permanent residency status from the Canadian Experience Class Stream that helps the immigrants to successfully get their permanent status in the country. even with these changes the immigration is expected to stay at the same level from around 2,40,000 to 2,65,000 entries. But the opposition feels that immigration department should look into increasing the total numbers of the immigration level in order to fulfill the market demands.

 

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Canada may accept only up to 10000 new immigrants in 2012


Canada planning to accept 10,000 skilled foreign workers in the coming year 2012, in order to satisfy their labor market demands and also boosting the economic development of the country.

Recently as announced by the Canadian immigration authorities, they are planning to issue 10,000 skilled workers visas for the coming year 2012. Such a step has been announced to attract highly skilled professional and foreign workers for contributing in economic development of the country.

Plans Says:

According to this plan, the immigration department is working to clear the backlogs of the aspirants pending since years back. It further says that till the year around 47, 000 to 47,400 foreign skilled immigrants are expected to get a green light from Canadian Immigration department.

Importance of this Plan:

The immigration department is planning this hike in view to fulfill the increasing market demands of skilled workers in the country and it will also help them to clear previous year's backlog, allowing them to grant visas to the deserving applicants.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney strongly recommends the plan and states that economic development is at the government priority list. He believes that the foreign skilled workers are the bright future of the country's immigration. As the country have experienced positive feedback and help by foreign skilled immigrants and have actively contributed to the international competitiveness of the country in the global market. It has been found through several reports as much of 95 per cent of surveyed employers feel that foreign workers surprisingly meet all their expectationsl.

Best Time for Aspirants:

This scheme is best opportunity for those who relevant qualification and also the experience to realize their dreams in the country. Those eligible under the foreign skilled workers categories, experts in their own field, should make full use of this plan and should apply well in time as such the forms could be filled and filled till the February next year only.

Other Increases:

Giving out the further Canada's next year's immigration plans minister specifies country's immigration targets for other categories.

The immigration department is also planning to initiate increase under the foreign student's categories and also under the skilled temporary foreign workers, who can further get their permanent residency status from the Canadian Experience Class Stream that helps the immigrants to successfully get their permanent status in the country. even with these changes the immigration is expected to stay at the same level from around 2,40,000 to 2,65,000 entries. But the opposition feels that immigration department should look into increasing the total numbers of the immigration level in order to fulfill the market demands.

 

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Canada needs more skilled immigrants-Study

Canada must focus on welcoming an increased number of skilled immigrants next year to give a stimulus to the national economy.

This has been revealed by a latest policy report unveiled Tuesday.

Welcome more skilled immigrants into Canada--The report by Institute for Research on Public Policy(IRPP)states that skilled immigrants as well as refugees do better than other immigrant groups coming to Canada. And the report further asserts on cutting back immigration levels during economic slowdown since immigrants happen to be the first to lose their employment when unemployment levels in the nation go up.

The report by Charles Beach and Michael Abbott comes closely on the heels of plans revealed by Canada government to increase its annual intake next year.

More immigrants to be allowed next year--Canada immigration minister Jason Kenney had announced that the nation plans to welcome around 10,000 additional skilled immigrants into Canada in 2012 adding the move will be beneficial for the economy. Canada government intends to allow 255,000 new immigrants into the nation next year and this will help reduce increasing backlog of applicants for Canada visas considerably.

Skilled immigrants earn more than other immigrants—Report by IRPP clearly maintains that the earning level of skilled immigrants coming to Canada is significantly higher than other immigrant groups namely refugee and family class immigrants.

Of all, skill-assessed immigrants coming to Canada through points system have higher earnings with skilled male and female immigrants earning 35 percent and 56 percent higher than immigrants coming under other immigration categories, revealed Beach, a co-author of the IRPP report.

Beach further maintained that earnings of refugees are slow initially but their earnings increase faster than other immigrant groups.

Canada immigration levels have grown up slowly and steadily in the last few decades. The year 1985 saw arrival of 84,000 while the number of immigrants coming to Canada in 2010 touched a 50-year-record of 281,000, official figures revealed by Canada immigration department CIC(Citizenship and Immigration Canada) show.

Canada needs to reconsider its immigration policy—The report authors further stated that Canada must redesign its immigration policy since in the last few years, it has axed several priority occupations from the list.

The immigration department placed an annual cap of 1,000 person in each occupation in 2010. So, Canada should attempt to invite more skilled immigration to stay ahead in the global competition.

 

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Fast-track immigration for more foreign Ph.D students

Canadian government is all set to welcome an increased number of foreign Ph.D students in the coming year.

This was revealed by Canada immigration minister Jason Kenney.

Foreign PhDs will get fast immigration--A new scheme for fast-tracking Ph.D students having a minimum of two years academic experience in this nation will be introduced by Canada. The government is ready to allow nearly 250,000 immigrants as Canada permanent residents in the year 2012. This will include a total of 1,000 foreign Ph.D students studying in Canada.

This announcement comes close on the heels of the immigration targets tabled by Kenney for the year 2012.

Foreign PhDs best for Canada economy--Quicker route to immigration for foreign PhDs is keeping in view their contribution to math, science and technology sectors of Canada, the federal government revealed.

The nation lacks required number of people with expertise in all the above named sectors. Hence, the government aims to expand the federal skilled worker program to include foreign PhDs too.

Welcoming the move, minister of state for science and technology, Gary Goodyear said the new program announces to the world that Canada is now all set to welcome innovative ideas.

He added that research and development undertaken in the fields of math, science, engineering and technology contributes significantly to the competitiveness of Canada in the global market. Before such program, Canada was asking immigrants wanting to become Canada citizens to move back to their respective nations and begin afresh on the long waitlist of seven-years, Kenney said.

It was like asking immigrants earning a degree or a diploma( from any Canadian institute recognized by an employer in Canada), getting work experience and attained proficiency in French or English to move out of the nation and get back in the long immigration queue if they wish to immigrate, claimed Kenney.

It’s simply senseless, affirmed Kenney, since all such immigrants are set for achieving success in Canada. Foreign PhDs must possess a minimum of two years study towards the degree and should be in good standing at any recognized Canadian post-secondary institute. Recent PhD graduates will also be eligible to apply with the only condition being they should apply within 12 months of their graduation.

 

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