It has been a vital week for Canadian immigrants

Last week was a striking one for Canadian immigration. One, Canada introduced six new immigration streams for international students, French speakers, and essential service workers. Two, IRCC held two Express Entry Draws. Three, some of the popular provinces conducted Provincial Nominee Program draws.

Six New Immigration Programs

Canada is launching 6 new immigration programs in May for eligible candidates to secure permanent residency.

IRCC will start accepting immigration applications on 6th May under the following three streams:

40,000 immigration intake for international graduate students;
30,000 applications reserved for temporary workers belonging to some essential occupations;
20,000 immigration applications for temporary workers employed in health care.

The other three immigration streams will target French-speaking immigration candidates.

Two significant Express Entry Draws

Canada held two Express Entry Draws in the past week. In the first EE Draw, IRCC issued invitations to 266 Provincial Nominee Program candidates. It was a PNP-specific draw. Therefore, the Comprehensive Ranking System score required was 753 points. In the second Express Entry Draw, held a day after the PNP-specific draw, Canada invited around 6,000 Canadian Experience Class candidates to apply for the status of permanent residents. The CRS score requirement was lower in this draw; candidates needed just 417 points. Canada has already issued a total of 55,390 invitations this year. These numbers are much higher compared to last year’s invitations by the same time.

British Columbia invites a large number of candidates

The province of British Columbia issued 452 invitations through Express Entry and Skills Immigration streams of the BC PNP. The draw was held on April 13. A separate draw was held by British Columbia to invite retail and wholesale trade managers and food service managers. Also, the province sent another 11 invitations through the Entrepreneur Immigration stream.

Prince Edward Island conducts PNP Draw

Prince Edward Island held the PNP draw in the previous week by inviting 156 immigration candidates. The invitations were issued to Labor Impact and Express Entry immigration candidates of the PEI PNP. To conclude, this was truly a major week for the Canadian immigration system as an important announcement of launching 6 new immigration streams was made, two express entry draws were held, and some of the popular provinces such as Ontario and British Columbia conducted their PNP draws.