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Parents and Grandparents Program will reopen on a first-come, first-served basis

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If you were waiting for a great opportunity to sponsor your parents or grandparents to Canada, now is the time! Canada will reopen the Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program in seven days. The program will come with some updates in the application intake process. Keep reading to know all about the news on the application process and how to become a candidate.

Starting on January 28, 2019, at noon (EST), the interest to sponsor form submissions will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The application intake process will happen for a limited sponsor a family membertime and it will replace the old lottery system. Once the limit of form submissions is reached, the form will no longer be available, and no new submissions will be accepted. Potential sponsors will be invited to apply based on the order IRCC received the interest to sponsor forms.

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Quebec gives employers direct access to immigration candidates in Arrima

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Quebec added a new feature to its Arrima-linked Employer Portal that allows companies to search the database for candidates that best match their labour needs.

The feature, announced back in June 2019 when the Quebec Ministry of Immigration launched the Employer Portal, was made available to businesses on November 5, 2020.

Up until last week, employers had to use an advisor from the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) to search for candidates and could not access the Employer Portal by themselves.

The new feature will allow companies registered in the Registraire des Entreprises Québec (Enterprise Register) to go directly to the ministry’s website, access the profiles of immigration candidates, offer them a job and by doing so initiate the immigration process.

Once they have identified potential candidate in Arrima, Quebec’s online Expression of Interest Management System, companies will be able to benefit from a personalized assistance service to help them choose the right immigration program and go through the various steps involved to recruit the candidates.

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Express Entry Draws

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The government of Canada held consecutive Express Entry draws on May 14 and May 15, inviting a total of 3900 candidates to apply for permanent residence. The invitation rounds took place only 24 hours apart from one another. 

 

Express Entry is a popular immigration method for skilled foreign workers. It manages the profiles of Economic Workers from three Canadian immigration programs. These programs are the Canadian Experience Class, the Federal Skilled Workers Class, and the Federal Skilled Trades Class.

The May 14 draw had 529 invitations sent exclusively to candidates who also participated in the Provincial Nomination Program. The minimum CRS score required for this draw was 718 points. Although this seems high, Provincial Nominations award recipients with an additional 600 points towards their initial scores.

 

Meanwhile, the Express Entry draw held May 15 invited 3,371 candidates, all exclusively from the Canadian Experience Class. The minimum CRS score required for the draw was the lowest it’s been since January 2019, with the cut-off being 447 points. 

Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada, Express Entry has only extended permanent residence invitations to Canadian Experience Class and Provincial Nomination Program candidates. Supposedly this is due to the fact that candidates from these programs are more likely to currently reside in Canada.