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International graduates who want to stay in Canada but missed the deadline under Ottawa’s latest pathway to permanent residency still have a lot of options. Last week, Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) started accepting applications for permanent residency under six new streams, including two for international graduates already in Canada. One of those new
The global pandemic hit Alberta with higher daily numbers of new COVID-19 cases than anywhere else in Canada last year, forcing lockdowns and border restrictions that crippled its economy and restricted immigration. Alberta lost an estimated 7.3 per cent of its real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and experienced a 47.5 per cent downturn in the
Three months after announcing its Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa Stream (FGSVS) in late October, Alberta immigration unveiled the details of the program designed to get international graduates to open businesses in the province. The Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP) stream is designed to assist Alberta’s battered economy recover from the massive loss of jobs and
2020-03-08 – Claresholm, Alberta, with a population of 3,800, has been inundated with more than 5,000 applications from 70 different countries for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. The town, located 90 minutes south of Calgary, only launched applications in February, and officials are shocked by the level of interest shown. It plans to welcome
2020-02-13 – Claresholm in Alberta has launched the process for candidates to register profiles for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. The town says it will recommend up to 20 candidates to become new Canadian permanent residents and settle in the community. Available jobs will be published on the website in the coming days. A
2020-02-10 – Canada admitted a new modern-era record of more than 341,000 new permanent residents in 2019, new government data shows. The 341,180 immigrants welcomed last year was the second consecutive year Canada has admitted more than 300,000 immigrants. Before 2018, the last time Canada welcomed more than 300,000 immigrants was 1912. The 2019 figure
Alberta tiene la tasa más alta de trabajos desocupados en el país en el tercer trimestre de este año, según la Federación Canadiense de Negocios Independientes (CFIB, por sus siglas en inglés). En un nuevo informe, el grupo dijo que 66,700 puestos en el sector privado se quedaron sin llenar en el trimestre, para una
Se espera que el mercado laboral de Canadá vea una tasa de crecimiento plano, ya que las empresas petroleras están reduciendo puestos de trabajo a medida que otros sectores crean nuevos puestos de trabajos. Los despidos en el sector petrolero van a afectar significativamente la tasa de desempleo en la provincia, dicen los expertos. La
Los expertos han advertidos que Alberta, que representa el 26% del crecimiento laboral del país, puede enfrentar una escasez de hasta 96,000 trabajadores para el 2023 debido a los cambios introducidos en el Programa de Trabajadores Extranjeros Temporales en junio del 2014. La tasa de desempleo de Alberta es de únicamente 4.7% e incluso tiene
Alberta quiere que el gobierno federal permita la nominación de un número mayor de inmigrantes económicos a la residencia permanente, para que pueda satisfacer mejor sus necesidades laborales. Según el Ministro de Trabajo, Ric McIver, la provincia ha enviado una carta al Ministro de Ciudadanía e Inmigración, Chris Alexander. «Me gustaría que el gobierno federal
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