News Updates

Canada Express Entry: How is it progressing?

Aug-15-2015 - The Express Entry program was implemented at the beginning of 2015, with thousands of hopeful international applicants entering the ring. By the end of July 2015, the Canadian Government had conducted 13 draws, issuing 15,980 invitations to these people for permanent residence. You may be wondering what Express Entry is, and simply put, it is a system whereby applicants are invited to submit their profiles to a collective pool and the Canada Job Bank. Based on education, age, skills and... read more

14th Draw Of Canada Express Entry Successfully Done - Issues 1402 Invitations To Apply

Aug-8-2015 - Good news for all skilled immigrants waiting for the results of 14th draw of express entry. CIC has once again rolled out a red carpet for qualified professionals who possess special skills and abilities and have filed their applications under EE pool for Canadian PR with Express Entry 14th draw results. Following the Express Entry 13th draw, CIC has declared the results of fourteenth draw on August 7th 2015 at 21:10:39 UTC by granting 1402 invitations to apply for PR. Skilled individuals who... read more

Quebec lowers the pass mark for skilled workers

Aug-7-2015 - There is good news for those immigrants hoping to make the move to Quebec. Set to begin in October 2015 or just before, the Quebec government has announced that it will lower the pass mark for its well-known skilled worker program. The program features around 75 eligible occupations and areas of training that will allow applicants to qualify for a Quebec Certificate of Selection (CSQ) without a job offer and minimal knowledge of French. Unlike the other popular visa programs around the... read more

Landmark Express Entry Draw: Lowest CRS Points Requirement Ever

Jul-19-2015 - The Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points required by those applying for permanent residence in Canada has fallen again in the latest Express Entry draw. The 13th draw took place on July 17 and issued invitations to 1,581 candidates who had more than 451 CRS points. It’s the fourth consecutive draw in which the required points have fallen – applicants required 463 points in the previous draw on July 10.CRS is a score out of 1,200 used to benchmark federal economic applicants against one... read more

Canada conducts Express Entry 12th draw and invited 1516 candidates

Jul-11-2015 - The 12th Express Entry draw was performed by the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on 10 July 2015. A total of 1516 invitations to apply for Canada PR were granted to the Candidates with 463 or more CRS (Comprehensive Ranking Score) points.In this draw the number of CRS points has decreased, whereas the number of invitations to apply for Canada PR has increased. Though, the count of ITAs decreased when compare to the previous draw, a greater number of invitations were issued to candidates... read more

British Columbia Launches New PNP Entrepreneur Immigration Stream

Jul-2-2015 - The B.C. provincial government has relaunched the Business Immigration stream of its provincial nominee program (PNP), rebranding it as the Entrepreneur Immigration stream. The B.C. PNP has streamlined the two prior categories - Business Skills and Regional Business - into the single points-based Entrepreneur Immigration stream to improve efficiency, and also introduced the online Entrepreneur Registration system to simplify the application process and speed up processing times.The Entrepreneur... read more

Eleventh draw of express entry program invites 1575 candidates

Jun-27-2015 - The express entry results of the 11th draw which have been long awaited has released yesterday by (CIC) Citizenship and immigration Canada. The much awaited results have brought more joy to most of the individuals by issuing 1575 ITA’s for permanent residency of Canada. Previously, CIC has organized 10 draws from 31st January 2015 till 12th June 2015. The cut off score during this time for the invitations has gone down to 469 points which is a slight decrease compared to the previous draw that... read more

Skilled workers and investors may apply for immigration to Quebec this summer

Jun-8-2015 - Quebec Skilled Workers Programme (QSWP) and the Quebec Investor Programme (QIP) ntake date has not been announced just yet.While immigration to Canada has seen a major change on the federal level, Quebec continues to offer possibilities of moving to the country through its own programmes, which in all likelihood will see a renewed intake boost this summer.Two programmes characterise the immigration stream to Quebec; the Quebec Skilled Workers Programme (QSWP) and the Quebec Investor Programme... read more

Canada announces new amendments to Express Entry CRS

Jun-5-2015 - Some major amendments made by the Citizenship and Immigration Canada to Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). Citing which, this week a number of candidates in the Express Entry pool have witnessed an increase in the comprehensive ranking system score.The reforms are made in the allotments of points to the prospective candidates for the Canadian work experience.The ministerial instructions leading to the Express entry electronic application management system are reformed to waive the requirement... read more

Express entry: early immigration data shows many already in Canada

May-12-2015 - Early data on new immigration program reveals fewer skilled workers applying from ChinaNearly half of the skilled immigrants who qualified for a chance to obtain permanent residency within the first three weeks of the launch of a new immigration system were not applying from abroad but were already in Canada, CBC News has learned.Canada launched a new system known as express entry on Jan. 1 as a way to recruit the best and brightest of foreign nationals to fill open jobs for which there are no... read more