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CANADA EXPRESS ENTRY ALL-PROGRAM DRAWS TO RESUME WITH HIGH NUMBERS AFTER JULY 2022
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has updated that all-program Express Entry draws resume in July 2022 and the number of invitations could be similar to pre-pandemic numbers, according to the press release provided by IRCC internal briefing memo enclosed for your reference.
The communication, dated March 28, said upholding the pause until the end of June will allow IRCC to process new applications in six months. The present inventory of Express Entry applications is sufficient for IRCC to meet the selection targets for 2022. Yet, in order to meet targets for 2023 invitation rounds will need to resume between July and September.
Though the estimated number of invitations issued in each round was redacted, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) memo said the draw size would be consistent with the average number of invitations issued pre-pandemic.
- All-program draws in 2019 ranged from 3,200 to 3,900 applications.
- All-program draws in 2020 before March 18 reached between 3,400 and 4,500 applications.
Earlier the pandemic, IRCC would invite Express Entry applicants from all programs to apply for permanent residence selection process every two weeks. Program-specific draws were held only occasionally due to the pandemic that affected the Express Entry process from March 2020.
When the border closed in March 2020, IRCC shifted its policy to hold program-specific draws. For the first few months of the pandemic, only Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) and Canadian Experience Class (CEC) applicants were invited to apply.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) held draws for these applicants in an effort to meet its record-breaking immigration targets amidst travel restrictions.
Canadian Experience Class (CEC) applicants, who are most often already in Canada, were less likely to be affected by travel restrictions, and so IRCC continued holding draws for them.
Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) applicants were invited because of the federal government’s commitment to supporting provincial immigration goals. Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) candidates were left out because a large fraction of them were abroad, and were not able to land in Canada among travel restrictions.
At this time IRCC resumed all-program draws, which included FSWP applicants in July 2020, but stopped after December 2020 and has not held a draw inviting FSWP applicants since.
In May 2021, the government introduced the Temporary Residence to Permanent Residence (TR2PR) program in an effort to admit 90,000 new permanent residents who were already in Canada.
Then in September 2021, IRCC stopped inviting CEC applicants since it could not commit to processing 80% of applicants in six months, which is the service standard for Express Entry-managed programs. Pausing Invitations to Apply (ITAs) allowed IRCC resources to focus on processing the existing backlog.
According to the press release, IRCC brought down the Express Entry backlog by 50,000 between September and February.
In April, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced that Express Entry draws for FSWP and CEC applicants will resume in July: https://bilimoriaassociate.com/immigration-news-detail.php?rId=209
By this time, IRCC’s facility standard for new Express Entry applicants is expected to resume to six months.
- This will assist to bring even more skilled workers quickly to Canada, Immigration department will double the number of permanent residence decisions made in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the same time period in 2021.
- From January 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022, the Immigration department has made over 156,000 final decisions on permanent residence applications and, through these efforts, Canada welcomed over 113,000 new permanent residents in the first quarter of 2022.
- The Immigration department processed more than 100,000 work permit applications in the first quarter of 2022, nearly doubling the number processed over the same time period in 2021.
- Through Express Entry, applicants submit profiles that are ranked, and periodically, applicants with the highest ranking points are invited to apply for permanent residence to Canada.
- About 95,000 post-graduation work permits expire between January 31 and December 31, 2022. While many former students with expiring work permits have already transitioned to permanent residence, applied for permanent residence or successfully applied for a different type of work permit, we anticipate as many as 50,000 applicants could benefit from this temporary measure.
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