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November 12, 2011
Government of Canada has been discovering the cases of marriage fraud, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) in 2010 about 16% of sponsorship applications were refused including the reason that the marriage was not bona-fide.
Canadian permanent residents and/ or Canadian citizens sponsor their spouses for immigration and Canadian officials often discover that the marriage is a fraud, it is a scam where in the relatives, the wedding or reception avenue, sometimes even the relatives of the wedding couple are the same in many applications that have been received.
Because of the widespread marriage scam that has been uncovered singularly in China and India, Government of Canada is planning to implement changes to the spousal immigration program, where in the spouses will be given a “conditional” immigration status. Plus, the sponsor will be banned from sponsoring another spouse for the next 5 years. The spousal conditional status of immigration time frame has not been decided yet but it could be 2 years or longer. And, the permanent residency will be conditional upon the couple living together for the stipulated period of time.
Currently Australia and US have spousal immigration programs where in the couple have to prove that they have lived together the specified period of time before the applicant (spouse) becomes a permanent resident.
If you are looking to immigrate or are interested in spousal immigration, please send us an email at info@immigrationzonecanada.com or fill up the free assessment form to find out if you are eligible for immigration to Canada.
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August 19, 2011
Effective 1st July 2011, government of Canada, has reduced the number of applications from 1000 per eligible occupation to only 500. And the clock is ticking already, this limit of only 500 applications for each of the 29 eligible occupations has started from 1st July 2011 and will end on 30th June 2012.
In total, the government of Canada, will only be taking 10,000 applications from 1st July 2011 till 30th June 2012. So if you have been thinking about filling up the forms, or gathering the required documentation or finding out if you are eligible or not, do you make enough points or you are slightly short on points how to get more points..etc,. then act on it NOW..
The hour-glass is trickling.. And, soon the 500 cap will be reached on the eligible occupations. Also remember, there is always a chance you might not be eligible next year as the government of Canada, revises the list of eligible occupations based on the economic demand and the shortfall or surplus of people for occupations in Canada.
So act fast, and remember you can always send us a free assessment form to get you started on the path of becoming a permanent resident of Canada.
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March 6, 2011
Government of Canada has amended the list of eligible occupations and effective 26th June 2010, Dentists are eligible to apply for immigration to Canada.
If as a Dentist, you diagnose, treat, prevent and control disorders of the teeth and mouth. Work in private practice or may be employed in hospitals, clinics, public health facilities or universities then you are eligible. And, the above also includes dental surgery, designing of bridges, fitting of dentures, supervision of dental hygienists and other dental staff as well as dentists who have specialised in orthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, oral pathology etc.,
Some of the job designations are:
- dental officer – military
- dental surgeon
- dentist
- dentist, public health
- doctor of dental surgery
- endodontist
- general practice dentist
- implantologist – dentistry
- oral and dental surgeon
- oral and maxillofacial surgeon
- oral medicine specialist
- oral pathologist
- oral pathology and maxillofacial surgery specialist
- oral radiologist
- oral surgeon
- orthodontist
- pediatric dentist
- pedodontist
- periodontist
- prosthodontist
- public health dentist
- specialist, oral medicine
- stomatologist
- surgeon, dental
- surgeon, oral
- surgeon, oral and maxillofacial
If you have at least one year of experience as a dentist then you are eligible to apply for immigration to Canada currently. Also, note that as of 29th Oct 2010, Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) had received 197 applications out of the allowed 1000 for the year starting from 26th June 2010.
If you are not sure whether you will make sufficient points to be eligible for immigration, then fill the free assessment form or email us at info@immigrationzonecanada.com to find out more.
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February 21, 2011
Government of Canada has proposed an overhaul in the Canadian Immigration system placing more emphasis on youth, language ability and skilled trades.
“There’s no shortage of people who want to come to Canada, and we should frankly do all we can to attract the best and brightest,” said Mr. Kenney. “There are certain traits which seem to be more heavily correlated with higher income and better employment, such as younger immigrants and higher levels of language proficiency.”
Under the current Federal Skilled Worker program, a prospective immigrant needs to score minimum 67 points out of 100 to be eligible for immigration. Where Education factor contributes 25 points, Language proficiency is 24 points, Work Experience is 21 points, Age contributes to 10 points, Arranged Employment in Canada and Adaptability contribute 10 points each, all together adding to 100.
“A welder from Poland doesn’t need to have university-level French, but somebody expecting to work as a medical doctor does. Perhaps the points system should be more intelligent and flexible to correspond,” Mr. Kenney said.
The current immigration system favours the highly educated, proficient in language/s applicants to score an easy 67 versus tradespeople with less educational qualifications and lower proficiency in language. But a trades person doesn’t necessarily need excellent language skills to work in their trades, although language is important for an easy integration in Canada and in the Canadian work force. The proposed new system will address this shortfall and aim to make the point system flexible to address the needs of the Canadian market place.
This is a good news story which if followed through will give better opportunities to tradespeople for immigration under the Federal Skilled Worker program, and it will cause less anguish and distress when new immigrants look for jobs in Canada.
If you are looking to immigrate to Canada or would like to know more about it, please contact us at info@immigrationzonecanada.com, visit our website or fill in the free assessment form.
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July 1, 2010
With the introduction of the new 29 in-demand occupations for immigration to Canada under Federal Skilled Worker program, all the people who have at least 1 year of work experience in the last 10 years in any profession where they provide analyzing the operations, managerial methods or functions of an organization in order to propose, plan and implement improvements or analyzing advertising needs and develop advertising plans. You could be working for a management consulting firm, advertising company or be self-employed.
Here are some of the position titles that are eligible under the Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management:
ISO consultant,
Advertising account executive, advertising consultant, advertising specialist, advertising campaign organizer,
Business management consultant, business management analyst, business consultant,
Business methods analyst,
Consultant – organizational analysis, organizational analyst,
Certified management consultant, management analyst, management consultant,
Promotion specialist, promotion representative, promotion strategies consultant, price management analyst,
Team training specialist,
Point of sale system manager,
Records management specialist,
Researcher- organization and methods,
Senior consultant- operations management
These are some of the designations that are in the list. The important point to remember is that if you are helping the management in making business decisions whether you are working as a consultant, analyst, specialist, then you fall in this category.
Again, if you are unsure whether you would qualify OR you do meet the 1 yr work experience and want to know if you qualify for immigration to Canada fill in the free assessment form or contact us or visit Immigration Zone Canada to learn more about the different options to immigrate to Canada.
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June 27, 2010
We have been talking about this and the government of Canada has gone ahead and updated their list of in-demand occupations to fill in the work force shortage and help the Canadian economy. The catch is the limited number of applications that will be accepted under these 29 occupations per year.
Ok, so are we eligible now? Here is the list of new occupations:
Restaurant and Food Service Managers, Primary Production Managers (Except Agriculture), Professional Occupations in Business Services to Management, Insurance Adjusters and Claims Examiners, Biologists and Related Scientists, Architects, Specialist Physicians, General Practitioners and Family Physicians, Dentists, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Registered Nurses, Medical Radiation Technologists, Dental Hygienists & Dental Therapists, Licensed Practical Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, Chefs, Cooks, Contractors and Supervisors, Carpentry Trades, Contractors and Supervisors, Mechanic Trades, Electricians (Except Industrial & Power System), Industrial Electricians, Plumbers, Welders & Related Machine Operators, Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics, Crane Operators, Drillers & Blasters – Surface Mining, Quarrying & Construction, Supervisors, Oil and Gas Drilling and Service
Now the important part is if you have been thinking about immigrating to Canada, and you have one year of experience in any one of the 29 in demand occupations above then start the process asap. Canada is capping the applications per year per occupation to 1,000. So make sure you are one of the 1,000 this year!!
Contact Immigration Zone Canada or fill up the free assessment form asap so that you know if you are eligible to apply for immigration to Canada and you are one of the 1,000 whose application will be accepted by the Canadian immigration authorities.
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June 27, 2010
Today, Minister Jason Kenney announced the long-awaited updated list of occupations for the Federal Skilled Worker program of Canadian Immigration.
Canada’s 2010 quota for immigration is about 265,000 immigrants. The focus is on economic immigration to help the ease shortage of work force and boost the economy. And, Canadian immigration wants to reduce the backlog of older, already filed in process applications of Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) so they have gone ahead and reduced the number of eligible occupations so that they can finalise the pending applications and reduce the backlog.
This is indeed good news for all those people who have been in the pipeline for some years now. Soon they will have some update on their pending applications. But what about the rest of us, who were thinking of immigrating to Canada. Currently there are about 380,000 pending FSW applications down from 640,000 in Nov 2008.
Now what? There are 29 eligible occupations effective today, 26th June 2010 that are eligible to apply for FSW or have a job offer. The main purpose is to reduce the number of new applications. To achieve that goal they will only be taking a fixed amount of applications per eligible occupation for the year. So it will become a first come first serve FSW program. This will bring Canadian economic immigration program (federal skilled worker program) in line with the rest of the world, namely UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Wait for our next post with the list of the new in-demand occupations or eligible occupations and what is the new cutoff number of applications per year introduced today by the Canadian authorities.
Contact Immigration Zone Canada or fill up the free assessment form asap so that you know if you are eligible to apply for immigration to Canada.
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April 17, 2010
Are you a Manager in Health Care? Did you know that you are eligible to immigrate to Canada? There are only 38 occupations that are currently on the list of Canadian Immigration department and Managers in Health Care is one of them. This is the time to act, read more about your designations and don’t think twice.
If you have been thinking, planning, hoping to settle in another country, Canada wants you to immigrate and become a Permanent Resident of Canada. Immigration rules are about to change, Canada is currently reviewing the 38 occupations that are eligible to immigrate under the Federal Skilled Worker category. Don’t wait any more..apply now.. in May 2010 Canada is coming out with a new list of wanted/ eligible occupations and you wouldn’t want to be left out..
So if you have at least one year of experience in the below designations:
- blood bank administrator
- dental health services administrator
- nursing unit administrator
- therapeutic services administrator
- director – health care admissions
- chief of anesthesia
- assistant administrator for nursing
- nursing services assistant administrator
- chief of psychology
- chief of radiation oncology
- chief of respirology
- chief of rheumatology
- chief of staff – hospital
- chief of surgery
- director of surgery
- chief of emergency medicine
- chief of endocrinology
- first aid services director
- chief of gastro-enterology
- health care administration officer (management) – military
- chief of hematology
- home care services director – medical services
- chief of infectious diseases
- chief of laboratory medicine
- director of laboratory medicine
- nursing care – medical services manager
- nursing services – medical services manager
- hief of respirology
- chief of rheumatology
- chief of surgery
- director of surgery
- therapeutic services administrator
- therapeutic services director
- therapeutic services director – psychiatric hospital
- chief of urology and many more..
And have been sitting on the fence, apply now and immigrate to Canada. You have nothing to lose and lots to gain. Read more about Canada, its multiculturalism, open arms approach, quality of life, standard of living, why choose Canada.. in our older posts and on Immigration Zone Canada.
If you are interested, don’t know where to start contact us or fill out a free assessment form.
If you are unsure whether your job duties and/ or designation will be eligible send us an email or the free assessment form and we will guide you. Remember the above list is not a complete list of Managers in Health Care, so if you are unsure whether your designation falls into the category or not, then drop us an email and we will let you know.
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March 22, 2010
Have you been thinking of immigrating to Canada? Don’t wait anymore, Government of Canada’s Immigration ministry is currently in the process of changing the list of professional occupations that can immigrate to Canada under Federal skilled program.
Take action now and immigrate to Canada before it’s too late. Here is the list of occupations that are currently eligible for immigration to Canada 2010. Soon, maybe as soon as 1st of May 2010 new list will be out containing a new set of occupations.
If you have one year or more work experience within the last 10 years as:
Financial Manager, Computer and Information System Manager, Managers in Health-care, Restaurant and Food Service Manager, Accommodation Service Manager, Construction Manager, Financial Auditor and Accountant, Geologist, Geo-chemist and Geophysicist, Mining Engineer, Geological Engineer, Petroleum Engineer, Specialist Physician, General Practitioner and Family Physician, Audiologist and Speech Language Pathologist, Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Head Nurse and Supervisor, Registered Nurse, Medical Radiation Technologist, Licensed Practical Nurse, University Professor, College and Other Vocational Instructor, Chef, Cook, Contractor and Supervisor, Pipefitting Trade, Contractor and Supervisor, Carpentry Trade, Contractor and Supervisor, Heavy Construction Equipment Crew, Electrician (Except Industrial and Power System), Industrial Electrician, Plumber, Steamfitter, Pipefitter and Sprinkler System Installer, Welder and Related Machine Operator, Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanic, Crane Operator, Driller and Blaster – Surface Mining Quarrying and Construction, Supervisor – Mining and Quarrying, Supervisor – Oil and Gas Drilling and Service, Supervisor – Petroleum, Gas and Chemical Processing and Utilities, you are currently eligible for immigration to Canada.
Act fast before the new list of occupations comes in place, contact us or fill up a free assessment form so that you don’t miss the boat.
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