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Canada invited 4,937 candidates under the International Experience Canada
Over the last week, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) held new draws in the pools of International Experience Canada (IEC). From February 7 to February 13, Canada invited 4,937 young foreigners to apply for an IEC open work permit. As of February 11, there are 33,845 candidates registered in the pool, waiting for the invitation. In this round, there were 1 ITA for Andorra, 191 ITAs for Australia, 100 ITAs for Belgium, 63 ITAs for Chile, 13 ITAs for Costa Rica, 6 ITAs for Croatia, 147 ITAs for the Czech Republic, 18 ITAs for Denmark, 4 ITAs for Estonia, 817 ITAs for France, 532 ITAs for Germany, 26 ITAs for Greece, 12 ITAs for Hong Kong, 743 ITAs for Ireland, 156 ITAs for Italy, 450 ITAs for Japan, 325 ITAs for South Korea, 10 ITAs for Latvia, 40 ITAs for Lithuania, 34 ITAs for the Netherlands, 61 ITAs for New Zealand, 4 ITAs for Norway, 87 ITAs for Poland, 47 ITAs for Portugal, 1 ITA for San Marino, 152 ITAs for Slovakia, 2 ITAs for Slovenia, 216 ITAs for Spain, 23 ITAs for Sweden, 8 ITAs for Switzerland, 127 ITAs for Taiwan, and 521 ITAs for the United Kingdom. In 2022, Canada issued 27,330 ITAs under the IEC Program.
#IRCC, #IEC, #ITA, #Working_Holiday, #Young_Professionals, #International_CoOp, #work_permits, #work_in_Canada
Canada welcomed more Afghan refugees
On February 11, 2022, the Government of Canada announced that over the past week, around 460 Afghan refugees arrived in Canada on 20 different commercial flights. Together with the last batch of Afghan refugees, the total number of Afghan nationals who arrived in Canada reached 7,550. In addition, on February 3, British Columbia admitted 90 government-assisted refugees. These refugees were welcomed by Musqueam elders and accepted to their territory. In the past week, Afghan newcomers have been resettled in more than 90 communities across Canada, mainly in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.
#Afghan_refugees, #Afghanistan, #refugees, #Afghans
Canada Border Services Agency introduced detention statistics
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) published a report introducing detention statistics. According to the report, from 2017 to September 30, 2021, CBSA detained 9,800 individuals for removal. CBSA can detain individuals under Section 55 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). The reasons for detention may be examination, suspicion of criminality, suspicion of inadmissibility on grounds of security, suspicion of inadmissibility on grounds of human or international rights violation, failure to provide an identity, danger to the public, etc.
#CBSA, #detention, #statistics
Quebec’s immigration minister complained about the long processing times
According to Quebec’s Immigration Minister, Jean Boulet, Ottawa has to improve the processing times for applications, especially for economic immigration applications and study permits for foreign students. Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser agreed with the complaints of the Minister since Quebec’s processing times for permanent residency applications have been more than two years long – around 27 months, while in other Canadian provinces this time was about six months. According to Canadian Immigration Minister’s tweet, “Canada and Quebec are continuing to work together to move forward on joint priorities.”
#Quebec, #Fraser, #Boulet, #processing_times