Canada.com recently published the story of Paul Thomas, an American mechanic who had fallen on hard times due to the state of the United States economy. He’d taken a huge pay cut, had filed for bankruptcy, his house was in foreclosure and he was having difficulty finding a job. But then Canada came calling, offering [...]
New Skilled Worker Program List – Opens May 4, 2013
The Federal Skilled Worker Program is a Canadian immigration stream that offers permanent residency to individuals who are able to immigrate to Canada based on their own credentials, including age, language proficiency, education level and their work experience. To qualify for this immigration stream, the work experience must be in a certain occupation. The Federal [...]
Federal Skilled Worker Program Updated Occupation List
The wait is finally over for the new eligible occupations under the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) that will be effective May 4, 2013. New Requirements under the Federal Skilled Worker Program While Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will not be accepting applications for the 24 eligible occupations until May 4, 2013, there are some new requirements [...]
NOC Job List for the Skilled Worker Program
The Federal Skilled Worker Program was temporarily halted a while ago so that the lengthy immigration backlog could be cleared up. Now that the backlog has been cleared quite a bit, the government is reopening the Federal Skilled Worker Program on May 4th, 2013. However, the program will only be open for 24 different occupations. [...]
Changes to the job list for the Federal Skilled Worker Program – Opening soon!
As you may have read, a significant backlog of immigration applications caused the Canadian government to put a temporary stop of accepting applications. However, the government is going to start accepting applications for the Federal Skilled Worker Program, as soon as May 4th, 2013! However the government will only be accepting applications for certain occupations, [...]
Coming to Canada as a Skilled Worker: Changes to the job categories
Exciting news! Citizenship and Immigration Canada has re-opened the Federal Skilled Worker Program, and will begin accepting applications on May 4th, 2013. There is a cap of 5,000 applications over the next year of 300 per occupation, of which there are 24. The PhD program has a cap of 1,000, while there are cap exceptions [...]
Permanent Residents Suing Government For Terminating Their Applications: Federal Court Dismisses Case
Last year, the Federal Government decided that in order to eliminate a growing backlog of permanent residency applications that was causing some applications to take almost a decade to be processed, they would just get rid of some of the applications that were clogging up the system. Unfortunately, some of the people whose applications were [...]
Canadian Skilled Worker Job List
The Federal Skilled Worker Program just re-launched, and we are often asked what jobs qualify for this program. The jobs are found on a list called the NOC job list, or the National Occupation Classification. This list of jobs ensures that the definitions of various occupations around Canada are the same across the board, and [...]
More US and UK citizens to immigrate Canada
The amount of people from the United Kingdom and the United States who immigrate to Canada every year has been increasing over the last few years. Canada has plenty to offer foreign nationals from all over the world, including jobs. In fact, new changes to Canadian immigration programs may result in even more United States [...]
Lawsuit against Citizenship and Immigration Canada for terminated permanent residency applications opens
The long-awaited lawsuit filed by 1,000 people against Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has opened. The lawsuit was filed by many of the applicants who had been waiting for their permanent residency applications to be processed, some of whom had been waiting eight years. But in order to [...]
150 People Who Were Issued Visas By Accident Get To Stay
According to the Vancouver Sun, about 150 people who applied for permanent residency in Canada and were told they had been approved, were approved by mistake because of a computer error. However, this week Citizenship and Immigration Canada admitted the error and decided that those who were given visas could keep them. “It was an [...]
Canadian Skilled Worker Program Job List
Skilled workers who want to apply for permanent residency in Canada can consider applying for the Federal Skilled Worker Program. Please note that this program is currently on hold, but will soon be re-opening in the new year. Someone who is proficient in English or French, has a high level of education or who has [...]
Skilled Trades Stream Announced By Canadian Government
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has announced that a new Skilled Trades Stream will be introduced to help bring skilled tradespeople to parts of Canada that are in dire need of skilled workers. During the program’s first year, which opens on January 2nd, 2013, the program will accept 3,000 applicants to make sure [...]
New Skilled Worker Point System For Canadian Permanent Residence in 2013
The Federal Skilled Worker Program was suspended this year, but it is expected to re-open in January 2013. When it re-opens, meaning when the government begins accepting applications again, there will be some changes to the points system. These changes were expected to be announced in October, but that was delayed. However, the government has [...]
Citizenship and Immigration Canada Announces Refunds For Skilled Worker Applications
Earlier this year, Citizenship and Immigration Canada was overwhelmed with a significant backlog of Federal Skilled Worker Applications and decided to get rid of this backlog by essentially deleting those that had been filed before 2008. These applications were taking years to process. Citizenship and Immigration Canada also mentioned at the time that they would [...]
