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11/14/2025

If you’re outside Canada and hoping for permanent residence through Express Entry...you may want to look elsewhere.

That’s not hyperbole. It’s the result of watching a system slowly turn inside out.

For years, Express Entry was a promise: if you had strong education, solid work experience, and decent English, you had a shot. Even from abroad. In fact, you were the target demographic.

But that version of the system no longer exists.

What we have now is a backlog of decisions that can be traced back to one thing: panic.
→ COVID panic
→ Backlog panic
→ Political panic

Now we have 4 million temporary residents in Canada. Many of whom were told explicitly or implicitly, that they’d become permanent. But the quotas didn’t keep up. The system didn’t evolve. And now everyone’s stuck.

And if people inside Canada, the ones on work permits, with Canadian experience, and degrees from local institutions, can’t secure a path to PR…
what makes you think you can do it from the outside?

The demand has outgrown the model. Express Entry is still operating like it’s 2015, but it’s 2025 and the playing field is gone.

You can still create a profile and believe. But don’t do it based on outdated advice or romantic ideas about what Canada used to offer.

This isn’t the same system.

And right now, it’s not offering much (unless you speak French or work in very few in-demand occupations).

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.

⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/14/2025

He got in.

They always start with that.

A cousin. A roommate. A friend from university whose middle name they can't quite remember but who got permanent residence with nothing more than a pulse and a two-page resume.

So the logic goes: “If he got in, why can’t I?”

Let’s stop here.

I am not here to mock anyone’s desperation. Immigration is bewildering. The rules are precise in some places and silent in others. You follow the checklist, submit what you believe they asked for, and still receive a refusal that reads like a breakup letter from someone who insists “it’s not you, it’s the officer’s discretion.”

And because it’s all so fragile, you reach for whatever reassurance you can find.

That’s where the friend comes in.

The friend who didn’t submit pay stubs and still got approved.

The friend who forgot to translate a document and no one noticed.

So you ask me if you should do the same.

What I want to say is: your friend got lucky.

But more truthfully, your friend may not even know why they were approved.
Sometimes the application slides through because an officer is overwhelmed, or the file before yours was a disaster and yours simply felt…better.

Other times, it’s the opposite.

You do everything right. You cite the regulations. You attach every required document. You even include things they didn’t ask for, just to be safe.
And the officer refuses you anyway. Because your proof of employment didn’t feel robust. Or the sources of your funds were “not sufficiently explained.” And so on, and so forth.

Discretion is a real thing, and it’s not always kind.

And so here you are, staring at your own file, thinking why did it work for them but not for me?

That’s the wrong question.

The question is: did I do what was required? Did I meet the standard (not my friend's version of it) written in black and white on the IRCC website?

At the end of the day, your friend is not responsible for your refusal.

Neither is the stranger in that Telegram group, or the anonymous voice on that YouTube video who swears that pay stubs don’t matter anymore.

You are.

So yes, gather insight. Collect wisdom. Listen to the stories, hear the noise.
But don’t build your application on someone else’s outcome.

Treat every word you submit like the officer reading it has one job: to say no.

If they don’t?

Well, then maybe you’re the friend whose story gets told next.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/12/2025

Let’s say you are married.

Your spouse is a Canadian. They have the passport, the social insurance number, and they say “eh” without irony. They are, by all accounts, home.
But you’re not. And you want to be.

So, like many others, you’ve thrown your name into the spinning wheel that is Express Entry. The system asks you to answer a seemingly simple question:
is your spouse accompanying you?

Ah. You pause. What exactly does “accompanying” mean when the person in question is already there?

Let me help.

It doesn’t matter if they’re sitting next to you on the flight, holding your hand as you land in Toronto, or even already back in Mississauga ordering shawarma and checking AirTags to see where you are. Your Canadian spouse is not accompanying you.

Why?

Because, under Canadian immigration definitions, “accompanying” means a foreign spouse or a common-law partner who is travelling with you to also become a permanent resident. A Canadian spouse or a common-law partner is not becoming anything. They already are. They are considered “non-accompanying” by default, even if they’re at the gate waving a “Welcome to Canada” sign.

And yes, the system could probably be clearer.

Instead, I get panicked requests from people who marked “accompanying,” thinking it was about travel logistics rather than legal status.

You can fix it. You click “modify family information” and change the status. However, if you received and ITA and already used your spouse’s profile to boost your points (i.e. through their education, language scores, etc.), you might find yourself tumbling below the CRS cutoff like Wile E. Coyote after running off the cliff.

Express Entry doesn’t mess around with fiction.

So, to recap:
→ If your spouse or a common-law partner is Canadian or a Permanent Resident, they are non-accompanying.
→ You must still declare them.
→ No, they are not assessed with you.
→ Yes, they can meet you at the airport. You’re still married.

I don’t make the rules. I just see what happens when people misunderstand them.

And I’ll be honest with you, I’ve had days when the most accurate answer I could give someone was: “I know this doesn’t make sense. But it’s still true.”

Welcome to Canadian immigration.

Bring snacks.

And please, for the love of all things bureaucratic, read the definitions.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/10/2025

I’ve long believed that immigration applications are less about eligibility and more about stamina. The process doesn’t w**d out the unqualified, it wears down the uncoached.

Nowhere is that more obvious than in the Express Entry employer reference letter.

It’s the most unassuming part of your application.
A piece of company letterhead.
A few lines of text.

What could possibly go wrong?

Everything.

You can have a master’s degree, fluent English, perfect scores, and years of skilled experience. You upload a reference letter missing one key detail...and the entire application implodes with a polite refusal and a bureaucratic shrug.

So, allow me to tell you exactly what must be in this letter. Every. Single. Time.
→ Your full legal name (as per your passport, not what coworkers call you after 5pm)
→ Company’s full address (with postal/zip code), phone, email, ideally website
→ Name, title, and signature of the person signing (ideally your supervisor, or someone in charge who knew your work)
→ Job title(s) + corresponding NOC code (if possible)
→ Start and end dates of each position
→ Whether the job is current or past
→ Number of hours worked per week
→ Annual salary
→ Benefits (if any)
→ A detailed list of duties aligned with the NOC description

Print it on company letterhead. Get it signed and dated. Scan it like your future depends on it. Because it does.

Let me save you some grief: if you think pay stubs, contracts, or LinkedIn endorsements will “make up for” a missing letter, I invite you to enjoy the thrill of watching your work experience disappear with the stroke of an immigration officer’s keyboard.

I’ve seen letters that say: “John was employed from 2018 to 2022. He was hardworking and valued. We wish him well.”

Beautiful sentiment. Completely useless. You might as well send a Hallmark card.

Because in this process, absence of information is treated like evidence of ineligibility.

I’ve said it before: Express Entry doesn’t reward the best candidates. It rewards the ones who play by the rules and don’t blink.

So before you upload your letter, ask yourself one last time:
Is it polite fluff? Or does it check every single box?

It’s the evidence that decides whether your future gets a second look or an automated rejection.

Make it count.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/07/2025

So far in 2025, the Express Entry system has issued over 80,000 invitations to apply for permanent residence.

You’d think that would be a good thing.

But like everything in Canadian immigration these days, it depends who you are.

Out of those 80,000+ invitations, 36,000 have gone to candidates selected through the French-language proficiency stream.

That’s nearly half.

If you're Francophone, this is the golden ticket year.

If you're not, it’s another reminder that Express Entry is no longer one system, it’s a collection of parallel lanes with wildly different traffic conditions. And some of those lanes are nearly empty, while others are bumper-to-bumper with qualified, frustrated candidates.

Let’s look closer.

This latest draw of 6,000 invitations, third-largest of the year, went to French-speaking applicants with a CRS score of 416.

On the same week, CEC candidates needed 533. PNP candidates 761.

These numbers are deliberate signals from IRCC.

The 2026–2028 Immigration Levels Plan made it clear: category-based selection is now the foundation moving forward. Permanent economic immigration is being set at 64% of all admissions in 2027 and 2028, the highest in decades. But how those numbers are distributed within the system tells a different story.

In that plan, Francophone immigration outside Quebec is set to increase:
→ 9% of all permanent residents in 2026
→ 9.5% in 2027
→ 10.5% in 2028

All aimed at hitting 12% by 2029.

So if you're wondering why French-language draws have taken over Express Entry, now you know that it’s official policy.

What’s less clear is where that leaves everyone else.

The plan doesn’t break down targets for CEC or FSW. PNP remains a core pillar, especially for regional and community-driven needs, but many applicants outside targeted streams are still waiting.

The system now runs on category alignment, not just CRS score. If you're not in the right stream, like French-speaking, skilled trades, health care, tech, it won’t matter how strong your profile is.

So yes, we know where the system is going.

But for a growing number of people, the real question is whether they’re still in it at all.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/06/2025

Remote work done abroad for a Canadian employer can still boost your CRS score in Express Entry, just not the way you think.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

11/05/2025

So the new Immigration Levels Plan came out.

Which means a bunch of people on the internet now have opinions. And a few of us are reading the footnotes while eating cereal over the sink.

Let’s walk through what’s actually in there:
→ The Provincial Nominee Program is getting 91,500 spots in 2026. That’s up from 55,000. If this were a stock, you’d be calling your cousin to get in early.
→ IMP numbers hold steady at 170,000. Which makes sense if you assume Canada has decided that every other temporary program should go on a diet.
→ The Temporary Foreign Worker Program is set at 60,000. Down from 82,000. So fewer workers in the jobs that are hard to fill, and harder to explain at dinner parties.
→ Study permits drop to 155,000 in 2026. It was over 305,000 in 2025. So the government took a look at the number of international students and basically said, “let’s try half.”

The permanent resident target is 380,000 a year. Every year. Until the end of time. Or 2028. Whichever comes first.

Family reunification: 84,000. Spouses, common-law partners, and children get a small bump to 69,000. Parents and grandparents drop to 15,000. We’ve decided it’s okay to reunite couples, but let’s not get carried away.

Refugees: 56,200. French-speaking admissions outside Quebec: creeping up to 10.5%.

There’s also something called a one-time initiative to “accelerate” up to 33,000 temporary workers to permanent residence. No one knows what that means. It sounds promising, like a surprise bonus or a loyalty program. But in immigration, “one-time” usually means “once, but in a completely different context, with different rules, at an unspecified time.” Could be Express Entry. Could be a standalone program. If you’re a work permit holder paying taxes and contributing to your community, the message is clear:

Keep doing that. We might get back to you.

Meanwhile, the goal is to get temporary residents down to 5% of the population by the end of 2027. I don’t know what happens if we hit 5.1%. Maybe alarms go off or someone loses a parking spot.

And just like that, the plan is in motion. Targets set. Programs trimmed. Optimism optional.

We’ll spend the next year trying to decode what “accelerate” means, figuring out which categories still exist, and pretending we’re not surprised when the numbers change again in six months.

Until then, keep paying taxes, keep refreshing your portal, and if you’re in a prioritized occupation, congratulations, you’re now Canada’s favourite.

For everyone else?

Hope you like charts.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

09/30/2025

I once met a man who spent 12 years building up a plumbing business in the Middle East.

It was successful. He employed dozens. He trained apprentices. He gave steady work to suppliers who counted on him.

He now lives in Canada, legally, with no clear immigration path for him. Not unless he gets incredibly lucky.

So let’s talk about luck.

On September 18, for the first time in 2025, Canada held an Express Entry draw for people in the trade occupations category.

1,250 invitations were issued.

The cut-off score was 505.

That's extraordinarily high for a trade draw, especially when the last one, back in October 2024, had a cut-off of 433.

There hasn't been a draw in almost a year. The candidate pool built up. And the government decided to clear some space.

And that’s what immigration has become lately: waiting. Accumulating points. Checking the IRCC website like it’s a slot machine.

→ Will there be a draw?
→ Will it be my category?
→ Will the cut-off be reasonable?

No one really knows.

IRCC has already said they plan to issue 3,300 ITAs to trade workers in the second half of 2025. So if the September's 1,250 were any indication...they're back-loading the year. Again.

September's draw was supposed to be good news. But all I see is how high the bar was set, and how many will still be left behind.

I'll say it again: we don’t need more gatekeepers.

We need more plumbers.

And electricians.

And welders.

And carpenters.

And a system that treats them like they matter.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

09/30/2025

There are thousands of people in the Express Entry pool.

Some are engineers. Others are healthcare workers. And then there are the ones that no one talks about much.

The teachers.

The early childhood educators.

The special needs instructors.

The assistants who show up every day in overcrowded schools and make sure kids are safe, fed, and learning something.

And some of them aren’t even in Canada yet.

They’ve had active Express Entry profiles for months. Some for years.

And this month, Canada finally remembered they exist.

On September 17th, IRCC held an Express Entry draw for people in education occupations.

The second one this year.

2,500 invitations.

CRS score: 462.

Lower than last time.

I suppose we’re meant to be grateful.

To celebrate the fact that once every few months, a small group of people keeping classrooms running finally get a path forward.

But the people I know in this line of work don’t usually have time to celebrate.

They’re busy marking homework.

Or managing meltdowns.

Or buying snacks with their own money because one of the kids didn’t bring lunch again.

We call them essential.

But in the immigration system, they’ve been treated as disposable.

So yes, this draw was a good thing.

But if you’re an early childhood educator sitting in Canada, or a secondary school teacher in Nairobi, or a special needs assistant in Dubai, nothing about this tells you what comes next.

There’s no schedule.

No reason to believe this will happen again any time soon.

Just one draw.

After four months of nothing.

And a lot of qualified people still sitting in the dark.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

08/08/2025

There’s a drawer.

Not a literal one, probably. But a metaphorical one. Somewhere in an office, behind the hum of fluorescent lighting and beneath a stack of printouts nobody reads.

That’s where your file might be.

I spoke with someone recently, let’s call him Joe, who has been waiting on his citizenship application for over 18 months.

And sometimes, that’s all it is: a forgotten file. A system swamped with too many cases and too few hands.

But sometimes…it’s you. A prohibition. A bankruptcy. A criminal charge. An unanswered request for information you meant to get to.

And here’s the thing about mandamus applications, the legal tool used to push the government to make a decision: you don’t get to use it if your hands aren’t clean.

There’s a legal test. One of the conditions is that the applicant can’t be the reason for the delay. That means if you didn’t respond to a document request for six months, or if your case is held up because of something you did or didn’t do, well, the court’s not going to be sympathetic.

But if the government just put your file in a drawer and walked away, then yes. You can do something about it.

That’s what I try to explain to people: delay isn’t always injustice. Sometimes it’s just...a system groaning under its own weight. But when delay becomes denial, when it stretches into years without cause, that’s when you need to act.

You don’t knock on the door gently forever.

Eventually, you file for mandamus.

And sometimes, that’s what it takes to get your file out of the drawer.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

08/06/2025

You might be interested to know that Canada is asking you what you think.

About immigration.

IRCC has released its annual survey to shape the 2026–2028 Immigration Levels Plan. On the surface, it’s about numbers. How many people should we let in?

But scratch that surface, and you’ll find it’s asking us what kind of country we want to be.

I took a look. Here’s what struck me:
→ The plan targets 110,000 Express Entry immigrants in 2026
→ It caps temporary residents at 5% of the population, roughly 210,700 foreign workers and 305,900 international students
→ It asks whether we should prioritize economic class, family reunification, or humanitarian protection
→ It floats the idea of expanding access for “lower-skilled” workers, those propping up sectors like agriculture, transport, healthcare, and construction

IRCC says it wants your thoughts. I’ve got a few.

We keep talking about labour shortages, but when someone wants to come build your house, or harvest your food, or care for your aging parent, we throw heavy bureaucracy in their face.

We lament that international students are “taking spots” but never ask why those spots exist in the first place.

We say we want entrepreneurs, but when they show up with business plans and ambition, we shrug.

We run immigration like a well-meaning antique shop. Friendly signs, but everything locked in glass and no one with the key.

This survey matters. It will shape who gets to build a life here, who gets left out, and how well we support them once they arrive.

If you have something to say, say it now. Before someone else does it for you. The survey is open until August 17, 2025.

Details are here: https://lnkd.in/gdZmPM9v

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.
⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

08/05/2025

A typical refusal letter from Canadian immigration says something like this:
→ “I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay.”
→ “I am not satisfied that you have sufficient funds for your stated purpose of travel.”

That’s it.

It doesn’t matter what you submitted. How carefully you documented your finances, your plans, your ties to home. The letter says what it says. It's brief, templated, and vague. And then you're left staring at two lines that somehow closed a door you were sure would open.

This is what many applicants face, especially now, in 2025, with refusal numbers at record highs. Immigration practitioners spend much of their time trying to decode these letters, often with nothing to go on. Clients are left unsure whether to reapply or challenge the decision.

Most don’t even know what they’re challenging.

So they request the officer’s notes, the GCMS, which can take weeks. But the window to challenge the refusal in Federal Court is just 15 days for applicants inside Canada. And the notes never arrive in time.

So what happens, is that many people file for judicial review just to preserve their right to see the reasons.

It’s not efficient. But it’s the only option the system offered. Until now.

As of July 29, 2025, IRCC will automatically include officer decision notes with refusal letters for study permits, work permits, visitor records, and temporary resident visas (excluding eTAs and TRPs).

This is a meaningful change.

It won’t make refusal letters feel good. But it will make them make sense.

Hopefully.

You’ll see what the officer saw, or didn’t see. Whether it was a question of documentation, eligibility, finances, or intent.

For the first time, the system is acknowledging something obvious: if you’re going to say no, you should explain why.

It's not a solution to everything. But in a system where silence has too often masqueraded as finality, it’s a welcome step toward transparency.

And in immigration, transparency is currency.

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Hi, I’m Anush - a foreign-trained lawyer and a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R710183). I’m here to help individuals and families confidently navigate their Canadian immigration journey.
💡 Ready to make your move? Book a consultation. It’s quick and easy! Visit www.margaryimmigration.com for details. Services are available in 🇬🇧English, 🇷🇺Russian, and 🇦🇲Armenian.

⚠️ All content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice.

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