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Canada to accept 500,000 permanent residents by 2025

Last Week, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Honourable Sean Fraser, tabled Canada’s 2022 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration. As per the report, the government announced that its target for 2025 was to admit 500,000 new permanent residents. Year 2023 Year 2024 Year 2025 465,000 485,000 500,000 Based on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
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IRCC announced temporary lifting on the work hours for international students

Beginning November 15, 2023 until December 31, 2023, international students who are in Canada and who have off-campus work authorization on their study permit will no longer be restricted by the 20 hour per week rule. Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Sean Fraser announced recently the temporary lifting of the 20 hour per week cap on
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IRCC inventories and transitioning to online applications for permanent residence

IRCC recently made several announcements to reduce backlogs and improve client experience. It was reported that as shown on the table below (as of July 21, 2022), IRCC is managing over 1 million applications from their inventories. In 2021, they finalized 1.7 million decisions across their lines of business. IRCC’S goal is to process 80%
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Temporary public policy to facilitate the issuance of an Open Work Permit to former or current post-graduation work permit (PGWP).

IRCC paused on sending out invitations to apply for the Federal skilled and Canadian Experience Class streams thru Express Entry since September 2021 until July 2022 which impacted many post graduation work permit holders (PGWP). Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) introduced a temporary public policy to allow eligible PGWP holders to apply within a
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