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New Canada permanent residents, refugees, temporary foreign workers in agriculture or food-processing, asylum claimants, and some minors are exempt as Canada demands COVID-19 vaccine passports for almost everyone else. Restrictions limiting travel to Canada went into effect on Saturday. “The government of Canada continues to adjust its border measures due to the evolving epidemiological situation
U.S. officials have advised against travel to Canada because of an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised Canada to ‘Level Four: Very High’ in its travel recommendations. This means Americans should avoid travelling to Canada. There are more than 80 countries with Level Four
Employment rose and unemployment dropped in December, in another solid month for Canada jobs, according to the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey. The report, released Friday, showed Canada added 55,000 jobs during the month, while unemployment fell from 6.0 to 5.9 percent. While employment has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, unemployment remains slightly about the 5.7
Families were reunited with their loved ones in Canada through family sponsorship immigration programs in greater numbers in 2021 than during the previous year – but their numbers were still a bit lower than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first 10 months of 2021, 62,245 new permanent residents arrived in Canada through family
Ontario and British Columbia are proving to be the big winners of a new, one-time pathway to permanent residency for foreign nationals already living in Canada this year. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) data reveals 11,425 temporary residents in Canada had already snagged their permanent residency under the TR to PR Pathway by the
The year 2021 is likely to go down as one of the most remarkable in the history of Canada immigration. Despite international travel and border restrictions due to a lingering COVID-19 pandemic, Ottawa reached its target of 401,000 new permanent residents, a feat that did not look possible with well over half the year gone.
Immigrants looking for a safe place to live during the COVID-19 pandemic need to know about Prince Edward Island, the only Canadian province that has so far not had a single death due to that illness. The island province in Atlantic Canada had seen only 380 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic
Canada has extended the period international students can complete their studies online and still qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP). Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) says 100 percent of online studies between March 2020 and August 31, 2022 can count towards the PGWP. Normally, Canada does not allow any online studies to count
Canada has banned travel from seven countries in southern African to try and stop the spread of a new COVID-19 variant. A series of new measures were announced by Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos to be implemented from Friday, November 26. The African countries are: South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini. Read More
The lifting of many of the COVID-19 public health restrictions due to the arrival of vaccine passports pushed up the number of people working full-time in retail jobs in British Columbia in September, reveals Statistics Canada data. The West Coast province now has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Canada, behind only Manitoba, even
