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Immigration officials denied the bias against African countries
In the recently published “IRCC Anti-Racism Employee Focus Groups” Final Report, IRCC was accused of having a bias against applications from African countries. Immigration officials denied this claim, indicating that the approval rates for study permit applications from African countries, especially from French-speaking applicants are relatively high. According to the officials, “there cannot be any bias in the process, and there are many other factors at play.” However, Canadian universities agreed with the high refusal rates for applications from French-speaking African countries and stated that this urgent issue has to be addressed as soon as possible.
#Racism, #approval_rates, #Africas, #IRCC, #anti_racism
New Brunswick holds an exhibition dedicated to immigrants
New Brunswick holds an exhibition of photographs dedicated to the important role of immigrants to Canada who work in essential occupations such as healthcare, agriculture, food processing, and transportation. The “Héros de l’immigration” (Heroes of Immigration) introduces the best contributions of the 21 most successful francophone immigrants to Canada. The exhibition’s official website states that “in Canada, every fourth healthcare worker is an immigrant and more than 50,000 temporary foreign workers support Canada’s agricultural and food processing industries every year.”
#New_Brunswick, #exhibition, #essential_workers, #Heroes_of_immigration
Why does Canada increase the number of immigrants?
Last year, Canada welcomed more than 405,000 permanent residents. This is a record number of immigrants accepted by Canada in one year. Immigration drives almost 100% of the Canadian labour force and accounts for approximately 80% of population growth. In addition, currently, there are under 1,000,000 unfilled vacancies in the country that the Government tries to fill by inviting more and more candidates. According to Statistics Canada, by 2030, around 5,000,000 Canadians are expected to retire, which will drop the worker to retiree ratio to 3:1. Thus, the Canadian Government increased the immigration levels to meet the economic needs and tackle the labour shortage issue in the country.
#IRCC, #immigration_policy, #immigration_levels, #Immigration_Levels_Plan_2022_2024
Immigration officers find it difficult to process applications from Jamaica
Since over 85% of children in Jamaica are born while their parents are in a common-law or “visiting” relationship, a significant proportion of permanent resident applications (including both economic and family class cases) require officers to do an in-detail investigation to resolve questions around accompanying and non-accompanying dependents. The Registrar General’s Department of Jamaica implemented measures that allow children who were not born to married parents to have their birth records, which indicate being born “in wedlock” to ease the processing of permanent residency.
#IRCC, #Jamaica, #application_processing