Dhillon Immigration Law

09/20/2023

A long-awaited Express Entry Draw occurred today, for an all-stream draw. Unsurprisingly, the CRS Points threshold was higher, but the 531 threshold score is the highest for an all-stream draw since Aug 2022.

12/03/2022

Canada plans to expand the open for permit program to include more family members of temporary foreign workers (not just high-skilled workers). Stay tuned for more details!

12/02/2022

The 2023 International Experience Canada (IEC) Program will include two positive updates:

1) 20 % Increase in the number of applicants who can apply. Approximately 90,000 candidates will be able to work in Canada

2) Applicants will be able to apply as of January 9, 2023.

Read the alert here: https://lnkd.in/d-yNWf6x

11/30/2022

Canada has a larger share of the population with a college or university credential than any other country in the G7. The share with a bachelor's degree or higher continues to rise with an influx of highly educated immigrants and a growing number of young adults completing degrees.

10/28/2022

Express Entry news: October 26, 2022 Draw

The CRS Threshold Points required to obtain an ITA dropped below 500 points finally, for an all-stream draw. We're still seeing delayed processing times, but this is a good step towards normalizing draws once again!

Looking forward to seeing this trend continuing. As of oct 24, 2022, there were about 65,000 people with a score between 451 - 500 (but only 1700 with a score about 500), so we'll still see high CRS scores for some time.

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10/28/2022

Express Entry News

The CRS Threshold Points required to obtain an ITA dropped below 500 points finally, for an all-stream draw. We're still seeing delayed processing times, but this is a good step towards normalizing draws once again!

Looking forward to this trend continuing.

As of oct 24, 2022, there were about 65,000 people with a score between 451 - 500 (but only 1700 with a score about 500), so we'll still see high CRS scores for some time.

10/11/2022

IRCC Announcement RE: Parents and Grandparents sponsorship program (PGP)

NOTICE: IRCC will begin sending Invitations to Apply over the next two weeks to potential sponsors who previously submitted an Interest to Sponsor form in 2020.

If you submitted an Interest to Sponsor form in 2020 and did not receive an invitation to apply as part of either the 2020 or 2021 intake, keep checking the email address you provided on that form, including your spam and junk mail folders.

You'll recall that IRCC's goal is to accept 15,000 applications in 2022. To do so, it will send invitations to apply to 23,100 Invitations to apply from the remaining pool of 155,313

Link to the news release: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2022/10/reuniting-families-across-the-country.html

Link to the Tweet Thread: https://twitter.com/citimmcanada/status/1579896896067248128?s=21&t=P6qJGBZNBWBMU13nbYF3Mg

09/26/2022

IT'S OFFICIAL - CANADA IS ENDING COVID-19 BORDER MEASURES

As of Oct. 1, 2022 all travellers, regardless of citizenship, will no longer:

➤ Need to Carry an ArriveCAN app receipt
➤ Need to Provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination
➤ Complete pre- or on-arrival testing
➤ Carry out COVID-19-related quarantine or isolation;
➤ Monitor and report symptoms
➤ Undergo travel health checks
➤ Wear wear masks on planes and trains.

09/02/2022

Here’s another stat that jumps out at you:

Billion-dollar startups by those born outside the U.S. have grown more than 500 percent since 2018.

https://www.inc.com/steven-i-weiss/immigrant-unicorns.html

Billion-dollar startups by those born outside the U.S. have grown more than 500 percent since 2018.

06/24/2022

Some Canadian immigration news via Twitter (minister Sean Fraser)

Canada is supporting Canadian international students with this initiative - for the Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) (similar to the OPT in the US).

03/17/2022

EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES JUST ANNOUNCED FOR UKRAINIANS

Canada introduces details for the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2022/03/canada-ukraine-authorization-for-emergency-travel.html