Category Archives: Announcements

Statistics Canada’s study on immigrant mobility names Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton as the cities with the best immigrant retention.

A summary of Canadian immigration programs: Express Entry, PNP, Quebec, and family sponsorship.

A look back at last month’s Provincial Nominee Program updates from across the country.

Canadian immigration options for people living in the Emirates. Source: CIC News If you are living in the United Arab Emirates with your eyes fixed on the northwest, here are some of the pathways you can take to get Canadian permanent residency— which may eventually lead to citizenship. In this article, we hope to show […]

A look at what we can expect over the next 12 months. Source: CIC News The coronavirus pandemic is set to continue to loom large over Canadian immigration in 2022. The pandemic is causing Canada to constantly update its travel restrictions. It has also created greater application backlogs, and a shift in Canada’s policies to […]

IRCC achieved the goal by focusing on transitioning temporary residents living in Canada during the pandemic to permanent resident status.

The median income of immigrants without Canadian experience is lower than that of those who worked and studied in Canada, a Statistics Canada study reveals. Source: CIC News Immigrant wages have been trending up in recent years, according to a new Statistics Canada study. Immigrants who became permanent residents in 2018 had a median wage […]

Record job vacancies coincided with growth in overall employment and falling unemployment. Source: CIC News Canada had an all-time high of 912,600 job vacancies in the third quarter of 2021, according to a new Statistics Canada report. This occurred as Canada’s economy continued to recover amid the easing of public health restrictions. The record-high level […]

Nova Scotia saw some of its fastest growth in 2021. Source: CIC News Nova Scotia’s population has breached one million people, which is largely thanks to immigration. Nova Scotia passed the population milestone following record growth since July 2021. The month before, Canada had lifted travel restriction on approved permanent residents, which had limited immigration […]

Source: CIC News Immigration applicants in Canada may not need to do an additional medical exam to apply for permanent residency. Canada’s immigration department is renewing a temporary medical exam exemption on some foreign nationals who are applying for immigration. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is extending the already-existing medical exam exemption on immigration […]