07/21/2022
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-19/royal-assent
New Job Categories of Express Entry?
Tucked into the Budget Bill were changes to immigration laws. Bill C-19, tabled in the House of Commons on Apr. 7 and known as the Budget Implementation Act, 2022, received royal asset on June 23.
These changes mean that the Federal Immigration Minister will be able to set categories for foreign nationals and will be authorized to spell out economic goals for those categories.
This could mean new categories of draws for Express Entry candidates with specific NOC codes. Keep an eye out for more news in the coming months.
Here a sum of the changes to immigration laws:
Division 23 of Part 5 amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act to, among other things,
(a) authorize the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration to give instructions establishing categories of foreign nationals for the purposes of determining to whom an invitation to make an application for permanent residence is to be issued, as well as instructions setting out the economic goal that that Minister seeks to support in establishing the category;
(b) prevent an officer from issuing a visa or other document to a foreign national invited in respect of an established category if the foreign national is not in fact eligible to be a member of that category;
(c) require that the annual report to Parliament on the operation of that Act include a description of any instructions that establish a category of foreign nationals, the economic goal sought to be supported in establishing the category and the number of foreign nationals invited to make an application for permanent residence in respect of the category; and
(d) authorize that Minister to give instructions respecting the class of permanent residents in respect of which a foreign national must apply after being issued an invitation, if the foreign national is eligible to be a member of more than one class.
Tucked away in that piece of legislation is a provision which amends the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.