Canadian Immigration | Return of the King—Canada Official Announcement: Express Entry Invitations will be resumed on July 6!
Canadian Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced in an exclusive interview with CIC NEWS:
The Immigration Department will officially resume the Canadian federal Express Entry lottery! These include Canadian Experience Class (CEC) and Federal Skilled Worker (FSW)!
restart date has been determined! July 6, 2022 !
Canada’s employer-less high-skilled immigration project is finally coming back this summer!
Fast Track is back
I don’t think I need to say more about how important the Fast Track is to Canada’s study-abroad and immigration groups. Students who have a little understanding of Canadian immigration policies should all know:
No employer guarantee is required! No job offer required! As long as the score reaches the minimum invitation score! The whole process can be completed within six months of Maple Leaf Card being batched in seconds!
For international students who have local jobs in Canada and academic qualifications, being able to apply for EE is definitely the first choice!
However, it has been affected by the epidemic and the backlog of cases in the Immigration Department. The fast track has not issued invitations to international students (CEC) since September last year. Overseas Skilled Immigration (FSW) has stopped inviting since the end of 2020!
Because many international graduates cannot apply for Express Entry and their valuable graduation work permits are about to expire, they can only change their status to visitors and have to temporarily stop working.
Even some international students have been forced to leave the country and return to their country because their legal residence status has expired.
The Minister of Immigration finally gave the exact restart time of the Express Entry in the interview:
The Minister of Immigration said in the interview that IRCC plans to reopen all categories of Express Entry invitations!
New invitation mode
In addition to the resumption of invitations by CEC and FSW, Bill C-19 related to Canada’s Express Entry is also about to be introduced!
The new bill allows Canada’s Immigration Department to prioritize invitations based on candidates’ professional background and other personal data.
For example, IRCC may conduct a separate low-scoring draw for candidates with work experience in industries with labor shortages!
EE statistics over the past year
On June 22, 2022, Canada’s federal Express Entry announced the last round of immigration invitations this month.
In this round, a total of 636 candidates have received ITAs, and the minimum CRS invitation score is 752 points.
Applicants with exactly 752 points need to enter the pool before April 19, 2022 at 13:45:45 UTC to be invited.
As with previous rounds, the target of this round of fast-track invitations is still the provincial nomination category, that is, applicants need to first obtain a provincial nomination letter from the province where they are located.
pools
Currently, there are 220,674 candidates in the Express Entry candidate pool.
Among them, the number of candidates in the 451-500 segment is 55,917. The number of candidates for the
501-600 segment is 8,017.
After the invitation is restored, if 3,000 people are invited in a single round, it will take at least three rounds to clear out the candidates with more than 500 points.
Compared with the same period last year
Compared with the same period last year
Compared with the number of invitations in the first half of last year, this year's EE can be said to be terrible. As of June 22, 2022, only more than 10,000 candidates have received ITAs.
Friends who plan to join the pool, please don’t forget to apply for admission.
At present, favorable policies are coming out frequently, CEC is about to be restored, and the amnesty project will also be restarted. Friends who have recently applied for immigration must seize the opportunity and choose an immigration project that suits them.
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