Immigration (2)

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H O W W I L L T H E 2 0 2 2 B U D G E T I M P
A C T T H E C A N A D A I M M I G R A T I O N
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Canadian Minister Chrystia Freeland released the
2022 federal budget of Canada on April 7, 2022.
The budgets focusses on Canada government
revenue and spending plan for 2022. This budget
also outlines an array of immigration priorities
to seek in the current fiscal year. The
priorities include recommendations for Express
Entry, Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP),
enhancing the application processing and
others. Canada government plan to welcome and
settle over 400,000 new permanent residents each
year and to achieve this, Canada will infuse CAD
2.1 billion over five years and CAD 317 million
in continuous financing.
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The 2022 budget proposes to spend CAD 187.3
million over five years and CAD 37.2 million on
an ongoing basis on tools and technologies to
strengthen IRCCs (Immigration, Refugees, and
Citizenship Canada) ability to manage
incremental enquiries and applications for
permanent residency of Canada. Under this budget
the government proposes to engage in making
variety of improvements to the current
immigration programs and systems Exp ress
Entry The federal government of Canada proposes
to postulate ministerial instruction to the
immigration minister to help select candidates
suitable to labor market needs. The bill is yet
to passed in the federal legislature.
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Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) The
federal government wants to invest in three
areas to upgrade the TFWP - invest CAD 29.3
million over three years create a Trusted
Employer Model to repeat employers who meet
the highest standards
to working, protections and wages in in to
demand create a
areas, new
invest streams
CAD 48.2 million such as agriculture
and fish processing employments in TFWP, and
finally CAD 64.3 million over the next three
years to augment the capacity of the program to
handle infusion of more applications.
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The validity of the Labour Market Impact
Assessments (LMIAs) will now be extended from 9
moths to 18 months.
The high-wage Global Talent Stream Employees will
now be hired for three years as against two
years.
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The firms will now be able to hire as many
low-wage workers in the seasonal sectors as they
need, the CAP on the same is removed. The
employers will now be able to hire teams
comprising of 20-30 foreign workers up from
10. Canada will not deny LMIA applications for
places where the unemployment rate is 6 or
greater..
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Canadian Citizenship The federal
government agenda is to amend the Citizenship Act
to automate the safe and secure collection of doc
uments, processing of applications and for use of
biometrics. This is will help IRCC to
accommodate higher number of applications and
also process them seamlessly. These proposed cha
nges and amendments will be only be executed afte
r it is voted by majority in the Canadian Parli
ament.
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