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Русский Indian IT Professionals: Here Is How You Can Move to Canada in 2019
December 7, 2018 – If you are an Indian IT professional working in the USA and considering your future options, you could change your life in 2019 by moving to Canada.
Qualified IT professionals are in high demand in Canada’s economy, and the federal government has shaped immigration policies to make up the shortfall.
Important technology occupations remain unfilled for more than a year in some cases. If you are a qualified and experienced IT professional, the pathway to a Canadian work permit,Canadian permanent residence and Canadian citizenshipis clear.
In this article, we will lay out how we can help you move to Canada, how much you can expect to earn and highlight some of the most difficult to fill technology occupations.
Why Should Indian IT Professionals Move to Canada From The USA?
1) Canada is more immigrant-friendly
Canada is aiming to increase immigration to 350,000 newcomers per year by 2021. The majority of these newcomers will be in the Economic Class, with technology workers among the most in-demand. While Donald Trump clamps down on work visas and green cards in the US, Canada is making it easier for IT professionals to get work permits, with two-week processing via the Global Talent Stream.
2) Canada needs IT professionals
Canada is trying to overcome a shrinking labour force and aging population, and one of the ways it is doing this is through immigration. At the same time, Canada’s economy has changed and the labour force is lacking the IT skills businesses need to grow. This is why Canada is courting Indian IT professionals with fast visa processing and a clear pathway to permanent residence and citizenship.
3) Canada has a quality education system
Canada has several established colleges and universities, as well as a top-quality publicly-funded high school system that rivals the US in terms of quality of education. Tuition fees when it comes to higher education are much lower than the US for international students, and lower again for permanent residents and citizens. Moving your family to Canada from the US could be the best decision you ever made in terms of opportunities for your children.
4) Canada has publicly-funded healthcare
The US has well-documented problems with access to its healthcare system, but there are none of the same issues in Canada. Permanent residents get access to publicly-funded healthcare, and work permit holders can too, depending on certain factors. This represents piece of mind that you and your family will be covered in case of emergency. Here is all you need to know about healthcare for new immigrants.
5) Canada has a safe and secure society
Canada has a democratically-run, safe and secure society with significantly lower crime than the US. By choosing Canada. IT professionals are not just choosing a job, but a whole new quality of life.
How Qualified IT Professionals Can Move to Canada
Qualified IT professionals can come to Canada in two main ways:
- Through applying directly for permanent residence;
- By coming to Canada as a temporary resident on a work permit, before transitioning to permanent residence.
1) Through applying directly for permanent residence
Skilled workers applying directly for permanent residence mainly come through Express Entry.
Canada Express Entry manages the intake of skilled workers to the main federal economic programs, plus certain provincial streams.
Federal Economic Immigration Programs
Candidates wishing to come to Canada through one of these programs must first register a profile in the Express Entry pool.
This profile is given a score against a Comprehensive Ranking System, with the highest scoring profiles receiving an Invitation to Apply in regular draws.
Draws usually happen every two weeks.
There are many ways in which candidates can boost their score while in the Express Entry Pool, including by securing a qualified job offer in Canada, worth 200 or 50 points, depending on the skill level.
Qualified IT professionals are in demand in Canada, meaning the Express Entry system is geared towards accepting them.
What Is Canada’s Top Technology Occupations?
2) By coming to Canada as a temporary resident on a work permit, before transitioning to permanent residence
Increasingly, IT professionals are coming to Canada on a temporary work permit before making the transition to permanent residence.
The federal government launched the Global Talent Stream in June 2017 to specifically target technology occupations.
Candidates with a job offer get their Labour Market Impact Assessment, work permit and Canada visa processed in two weeks if they qualify for the GTS.
It has given Canadian technology start-ups an important advantage when competing for the best overseas hires.
Once candidates are in Canada and working through the GTS – which is operated under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program – they can apply for permanent residence through Express Entry.
Where in Canada Are the Best Salaries for IT Professionals?
Canada is a vast country, with established technology is many of its major cities.
Below are some of the most popular technology jobs with salary information.
1) IT Project Manager
2) Software Developer
3) Database Analyst
4) Java Developer
5) Web Developer
6) Computer Network Technician
7) Business Analyst
Top 10 Canada Occupations for IT Professionals Employers Are Desperate to Fill
Advertisements in the top 10 hardest to fill occupations are consistently live for more than 60 days, showing how employers desperate to get the right people in have to be patient.
If you are qualified in one of these positions, you could move to Canada in a matter of weeks.
Canada’s Hardest to Fill Technology Vacancies
| Job title | NOC Code | Percentage of vacancies open for 60 or more days | |
| 1 | Computer Vision Engineer | 2147 | 56 |
| 2 | Penetration Tester | 2147, 2171, 2281 | 51 |
| 3 | Ruby on Rails Developer | 2147, 2171, 2172 | 43 |
| 4 | Operations Engineer | 2141, 2147 | 41 |
| 5 | Release Engineer | 2173 | 40 |
| 6 | C Developer | 2175 | 37 |
| 7 | Machine Learning Engineer | 2132 | 37 |
| 8 | System Engineer | 0211 | 35 |
| 9 | Chief Engineer | 0211 | 34 |
| 10 | Security Engineer | 2171 | 33 |
Source: Indeed
How We Can Help IT Professionals Move to Canada
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For employment, we give all our individual clients a comprehensive job search service through our in-house recruitment enterprises, www.skilledworker.com and www.grnmontreal.com.
We will empower you on how to raise your profile including your CRS score in the Express Entry Pool.
We do this by giving our clients extensive contacts to 500 Canadian employers, conducting a comprehensive job search which includes a live face-to-face tutorial on how to harness the power of LinkedIn, and revising their digital, online profiles to maximise their hiring opportunities.
In short, we teach you how to find a job in Canada from overseas.
How We Can Help Employers Looking to Hire IT Professionals
If you are an employer looking to recruit foreign talent from abroad, immigration.ca can help. Access our expertise through our in-house recruitment enterprises, www.grnmontreal.com and our newest asset, www.skilledworker.com, “the leader in foreign recruitment”.
From technology workers in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, long-haul truck drivers in the Prairies and doctors in Nova Scotia we are able and ready to help with your search for the right staff to get your business grow.
Interested employers: Kindly contact us here to receive further information.
Interested candidates: Find out whether you qualify to Canada by completing our free on-line evaluation. We will provide you with our evaluation within 1-2 business days.
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- Publié dans 2018, Canadian Work permit, L'actualité Canadienne
Birth Tourism in Canada Much Higher Than Official Figures: Study
November 26, 2018 – New figures show Canadian birth tourism numbers are much higher than official figures suggest.
A study by Policy Options author Andrew Griffith found that while Statistics Canada reported 313 births to mothers residing outside Canada in 2016, the actual number could be more than five times greater.
It means the issue – where non-resident women intentionally come to Canada to give birth to secure citizenship for their babies – is significantly more serious than many had believed.
“The impact of this practice can no longer be described as insignificant given its effect on the integrity of citizenship and public perceptions that birth tourism is a fraudulent shortcut to obtaining citizenship,” Griffith writes.
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Benefits of Canadian Citizenship
The discrepancy came to light when non-resident birth figures produced by a single health facility – Richmond Hospital in British Columbia – exceeded the officially reported numbers for the whole of Canada.
Griffith used numbers from the from the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), which showed there were 3,223 non-resident births in Canada in 2016.
This figure is not representative of birth tourism alone, as it also includes other temporary residents (including corporate transferees and international students) and Canadian expatriates returning to give birth. The total also does not include Quebec, which refused to release the information.
But it does show birth tourism is not only a bigger problem than first thought, it is also a growing problem.
Griffith’s DAD figures show an increase from 1,354 non-resident births in 2010 to 3,628 in 2017, an increase of nearly 170 per cent in seven years.
In 2017, non-resident births accounted for 1.2 per cent of all births in Canada.
When Griffith broke the data down by hospital, he found some where more than 10 per cent of births were to non-resident mothers.
But why such a large difference between official data and the DAD figures? Griffith writes: “The likely explanation for the discrepancy between hospital financial data and vital statistics agency data is that birth tourists use their real addresses for hospital payments but their temporary Canadian addresses on birth registration forms.”
The new numbers are likely to interest Canadian politicians. It was the subject of a recent Liberal MP petition, while the Conservatives passed a resolution to withhold citizenship from children without a parent with Canadian citizen or permanent residence.
US President Donald Trump also says he wants to stop citizenship by birth.
Griffith offers three potential solutions to help tackle the issue:
1) Make birth tourism grounds for visitor visa refusal
Griffith suggests introducing a question about intent to give birth on the visitor visa form, with visa officers given power to request a pregnancy test in high risk cases.
A woman who has not declared her pregnancy could be found guilty of immigration fraud, with the child’s citizenships subsequently obtained fraudulently.
While the approach would create a deterrent, it would be difficult to enforce, Griffith says.
2) Qualified birthright citizenship
Canada could copy Australia’s 2017 move to change its citizenship act to introduce qualified birthright citizenship. This would mean a person born in Canada only gets citizenship “if the parent is either a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident and if the child has lived in Canada for 10 years after birth.”
The downside to this approach would be costly changes to the way births are registered, with parental pictures and proof of residence currently not required.
3) Regulatory and financial approaches
Griffith suggests taking financial action against non-residents who give birth in Canada. “While financial measures do not address objections to birth tourism in principle, they could discourage some birth tourism and would address the cases where birth tourists are not paying their hospital bills,” he writes.
Interested employers: Kindly contact us here to receive further information.
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- Publié dans 2018, L'actualité Canadienne
Qui est admissible à la citoyenneté canadienne?
Le Canada offre la citoyenneté par naturalisation et par la naissance sur le territoire.
Pour être admissible à la citoyenneté par naturalisation, les Canadiens ayant quatre années de en tant que résidents permanents au cours des six années précédentes peuvent demander la citoyenneté canadienne. Les autres exigences incluent:
• Avoir 18 ans ou plus ;
• Avoir une connaissance suffisante des langues requises pour la citoyenneté, si les candidats son âgés de moins de 64 ans;
• Ne pas être sous une mesure de renvoi;
• Ne pas avoir une interdiction criminelle;
• Payer les frais de traitement du gouvernement.
Les demandes sont présentées au bureau de la citoyenneté à Sydney, en Nouvelle-Écosse où elles sont premièrement révisées pour s’assurer qu’elles sont complètes et que la période de résidence de 4 ans a été atteinte. Dans les 12 mois à compter du dépôt, les demandeurs seront tenus d’assister à une entrevue pour démontrer leur connaissance du Canada dans l’une des langues officielles du Canada.
Il y a environ 260 000 personnes qui ont obtenu la citoyenneté canadienne en 2014.
Pour un résumé des exigences pour se qualifier pour la citoyenneté canadienne, lire la suite ici.
- Publié dans Citizenship
Miji c Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration)
2015-02-04 | 2015 CF 142 | T-338-14
Miji c Canada (Citoyenneté et Immigration)
Principle Established
If a citizenship applicant satisfies s. 5(1) of the Citizenship Act under a qualitative analysis, it is a violation of procedural fairness to reject his application based on a failure to satisfy s. 5(1) under a quantitative analysis.
Facts
Miji sought judicial review of a citizenship judge’s decision to reject his application for Canadian citizenship.
Miji’s application was rejected because he had failed to prove that he had resided in Canada for the requisite number of days as per s. 5(1) of the Citizenship Act
The Federal Court argued that there are three methods by which a citizenship judge can determine whether an applicant has satisfied the requirements of s. 5(1). The first is quantitative and involves calculating exactly how many days an applicant has spent in Canada. The second and third methods are qualitative and involve an analysis of whether the applicant has centralized his ordinary mode of living in Canada and whether the applicant lives regularly and habitually in Canada.
Decision
While the citizenship judge rejected Miji’s application under the quantitative method, the court found that Miji’s application would have succeeded had the judge used either of the two qualitative methods of analysis. The court thus found the rejection of Miji’s application to have violated the principles of procedural fairness.
The request for judicial review was allowed
- Publié dans 2015, Canada Case Law, Février
