In November, Canadian provinces continued to invite hopeful immigrants to participate in the next stage of the immigration process. Canada’s PNP – Provincial Nominee Program, introduced in 1998 with the admission of approximately 200 people to Canada, and will now welcome more than 80,000 new permanent residents each year. At least 3,744 would-be immigrants received
Canada’s immigration system is on the verge of a busy end to what has been an eventful 2020. Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) are expected to continue to hold Express Entry raffles throughout the holiday season. In previous years, there have been at least two raffles in December. It is also expected that the
Canadian provinces hosted more than 10 rounds of invitations last month. Together, all of the invitation rounds resulted in nearly 3,000 invitations to apply for Provincial Nomination for Permanent Residence across the country. There are two types of provincial nomination streams: Enhanced nomination streams, which are in-line with the federal government’s Express Entry Basic nomination
If Ontario’s proposed new immigration system gets the green light, it will abolish the current model of racing seats. The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) recently presented a proposal to transform some of its programs into an Expression of Interest (EOI) system. The new system would use scoring criteria to target candidates best suited to
An overview of the basic costs to apply for the Provincial Nominee Program and Express Entry in 2020. BC PNP recently increased the price of an application for the Skills Immigration stream, but it is still not the most expensive program in Canada. It now costs CAD $1,150 to register for the Immigration Skills component
