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The Canadian Immigration Office plans to grant citizenship to 300,000 people this year

2022-11-01

The executive Department of the Immigration office recommends that IRCC process a total of 285,000 applications and 300,000 new citizenship requests by March 31, 2023. This number is significantly higher than the number of applications processed during 2021-2022 and even exceeds the 2019-2020 figures, which stood around 230000 citizenship cases.

CRS Express Entry score decreased to 496

2022-11-01

This is the first time since December 2020 that the picked CRS score across all categories has fallen below 500. On October 26, Canada held its latest Express Entry draw across all its categories, the ninth since resuming the draw across all programs on July 6. Invitations were issued to 4750 candidates with minimum CRS scores. All candidates in CEC, FSWP, and FSTP classes were eligible to receive invitations.

Canada yesterday announced the 2023-2025 immigration levels plan

2022-11-02

The immigration levels plan serves as a guide to the number of immigrants Canada plans to accept over the next three years. Immigration Minister (Sean Fraser) spoke to the media about the plan yesterday. By welcoming more than 405,000 immigrants in 2021, Canada broke its all-time immigration record and seeks to accept nearly 432,000 immigrants this year.

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