The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals Canada welcomed 22,460 new permanent residents from India in July and August
Immigration from India is expected to drop as Canada pulls personnel out of the Asian country due to a row over the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The Toronto Star cited senior government sources as saying the drop in staff in India will create a backlog of 17,500 “final decisions” across Canada’s global immigration system by the end of this year, over a two-month period, reported immigration.ca.
The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals Canada welcomed 22,460 new permanent residents from India in July and August. IRCC data also reveals that Canada approved 77,935 work permits for Indians under the International Mobility Program (IMP) and another 5,310 work permits under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) during the same two months.
That’s a total of 105,705 final decisions made about work permits and permanent residents for Indians hoping to come to Canada in July and August. A drop of 17,500 in those decisions – if the senior government officials are including work permits in their calculations – would represent a slowdown of 16.5 per cent.
A 17,500-drop in permanent residency decisions over the coming two months – if the government officials were referring only to permanent residency decisions – would be a reduction of almost 78 per cent.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller has made it clear that regardless of the diplomatic tension in Indo-Canadian relationship, Canada will continue to accept and process all immigration applications from India.
Last year, more than 41.1 per cent of all study permits issued to international students in Canada went to Indians. The IRCC issued 225,940 study permits to Indians in 2022 out of a total 549,260 for the year
India is the most important source of new permanent residents to Canada, far outstripping the contribution of second-place China in the top ten list of sources of new permanent residents. The latest IRCC data reveals India provided 118,245 new permanent residents to Canada last year, or more than 27 per cent of the total 437,610 new permanent residents last year.
In 2022 and again this year, the vast majority of Indians gaining permanent residency in Canada immigrated here through economic programs, most notably the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP), Federal Skilled Worker (FSW), and Canadian Experience Class (CEC).
The popularity of the CEC for Indians seeking permanent residency in Canada is a natural offshoot of their high number of international students from India at Canadian colleges and universities and Indians working in Canada under temporary work permits.
Last year, more than 41.1 per cent of all study permits issued to international students in Canada went to Indians. The IRCC issued 225,940 study permits to Indians in 2022 out of a total 549,260 for the year.
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