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29 March 2024

Canada to accept 265,000 immigrants in 2013

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By Majorie van Leijen

The government of Canada has disclosed that it plans to admit a total of 240,000 to 265,000 new permanent residents in 2013.

This was disclosed by Transcend Consultants, quoting from the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)’s 2012 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration tabled in Canada's parliament.

The number indicates an unchanged push of the target that has been pursued over the past seven years and which is known as the highest sustained level of immigration in Canadian history, according to Deepak Kohli, President of Transcend Consultants, a Canadian Immigration Consultant.

“Canada has welcomed 240,000 to 265,000 new immigrants for the past 6 years, with major focus on the economic class, comprising skilled worker, business immigrants and provincial nominees.”

For 2013 the CIC plans to increase Canada Experience Class (CEC) admissions.

Whereas the current number of applicants stands at 6500, it is aiming for 10,000 admissions in 2013.

“The CEC was created in 2008, to facilitate the transition from temporary to permanent residence for international students and temporary foreign workers, already in Canada.

"A recent change in the CEC criteria includes reducing the work experience eligibility period to 1 year, from 2 years for international graduates. This is expected to help these students in immigrating to Canada, even with a 1 year study program,” explains Deepak.

Apart from the CEC applicants the government plans to admit between 53,500 to 55,300 Federal Skilled Workers, including their spouses and dependents. “The CIC intends to lift the current pause on FSW applications in 2013, when the new selection criteria are expected to take effect,” adds Deepak.

Furthermore disclosed in the report was earlier discussed intention of the government to eliminate the backlog of unhandled applications by 2014. Recent decisions of the government will attribute to this end:

- Limiting FSW application intake to priority occupations in 2008, through ministerial instructions;
- Introducing caps to the number of new applications in 2010;
- Returning unprocessed FSW applications received before February 27, 2008;
- Freezing the intake of most new FSW applications in July, 2012.

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