The time has come for candidates to get selected by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to relocate from their home country to Canada. As informed by the Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, there would be a draw that would choose candidates from the Express Entry pool on the 6th of July 2022. This draw will feature all the Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades and Canada Experience Class programs. It means that the highest-ranking applicants have a chance of getting their Invitation to Apply (ITA) tomorrow. They can expect to get their applications completed within 6 months; that is on or before the year 2022 ends…
The time has come for candidates to get selected by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to relocate from their home country to Canada. As informed by the Immigration Minister Sean Fraser, there would be a draw that would choose candidates from the Express Entry pool on the 6th of July 2022. This draw will feature all the Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades and Canada Experience Class programs. It means that the highest-ranking applicants have a chance of getting their Invitation to Apply (ITA) tomorrow. They can expect to get their applications completed within 6 months; that is on or before the year 2022 ends.
Post of the Minister on Twitter
If you have been following the Canadian Immigration Minister on Twitter, you would have read yesterday that he confirmed on the social media platform that the long awaiting all programs selection will finally get started this Wednesday, July 6th 2022 after it has suffered a hiatus of over 18 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, border closures, travel restrictions and lockdown situations in the country which led to a massive amount of application backlogs not only of the Express Entry candidates but all client-based service offerings of his office.
Short Programs History
It is to be remembered that especially the draws for the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) and Federal Skilled Trades (FST) programs have been on hold since December 2020 and that of the Canadian Experience Class (CEC) suffered a hold in September 2021 as well. Ever since, the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) like that of the surprising Ontario PNP recent June draw has only been the route that most qualifying candidates use to fulfill their immigration dream to move to Canada. Though, many more applicants have had to wait in the pool for so long leading to a kind of frustration towards the temporary selection deficit.What is Express Entry?
For those who are not really knowledgeable about this route and its programs, it is expedient to explain it more. Express Entry (EE) is the easiest and fastest way to migrate to Canada to live, work and study there. It focuses on picking youths who are in their core working ages and are willing to economically settle down within Canada with the exception of Quebec as they impact the labor economy of the country with their vibrant population. Hence, such candidates in the EE pool are prioritized, giving them their residency status faster than others coming into Canada through family sponsorship or refugee or humanitarian migration. Start your application here.
How will IRCC select?
Just like the IRCC has been known for, it would most likely choose candidates with the highest Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score which is just a cumulative point gotten from several factors ranging from occupation, work experience, education, language and adaptability qualities like past work or study in Canada, close relatives who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada, valid job offer from a Canadian employer. Though, the recently approved Canada Immigration Bill C-19 recommends that the Minister picks candidates based on economy boosting reasons like French skills, in-demand National Occupation Classification (NOC) codes and provincial migrant needs.Which candidates will be invited?
I guess that many candidates will be chosen and issued ITAs than we presume. Though, lots of Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants (RCIC) are saying the contrary. As a migration agent, I endeavor to be optimistic in every way when it comes to predicting the outcomes of the policies and actions of IRCC. A particular RCIC informed me that the candidates that will be picked need to have 544 CRS score at least to be considered eligible for tomorrow’s pool. Another one issued a statement indicating that IRCC will give their ITAs to persons having above 500 points. And these happen to be most of the stand of plenty of them.
Reasons behind their predictions
I consider some of these reasons to be rational enough to be accepted as true. A valid point they make is about to the current number of eligible candidates in the EE pool which is above 8000 for just the 500 – 600 CRS range. Yet, I am of the view that the IRCC will choose to rationalize the invitations by issuing lots to the 500 – 600 range while the others go to 490 or even 480 CRS range of candidates. There is no statistics to back this mere forecast on. However, my sentiments dictate that IRCC may see to it that more candidates in the different brackets are represented in the draw in order to gain more interest in the large populace of immigrants who want to relocate to Canada.Clues of Emotional Outburst by the Minister
In a couple of the interviews that the Minister had with CIC News and during the recent technology conference in Canada, his speeches communicate to me and a few others some sense of compassion about the state of affairs of intending immigrants have been due to their lack of fast selection and application processing. Thus, the minister may decide to reignite that lost enthusiasm in IRCC clients with the support of his team so that the Express Entry programs regain their positions in the international league of considerate, fast and reliable routes for economic immigrants to relocate abroad.
When will the processing begin and for how long?
More from that the Minister brings forward from time to time is that of the pre-pandemic standard of processing most applications from the EE programs within just 6 months. This is to say that applicants who get selected this month should expect to get their applications started if they submit on time within the stipulated 60 calendar days. In fact, I predict that the processing of many applications, if complete, will take IRCC within 3 – 4 months instead of the standard 6 months. This will definitely catch the news and would bring more and more willing candidates into the EE pool before the end of this year of 2022.Where are you in all of it?
Talking about all these possibilities will not help much if action is not taken now and fast. My best advice to you, if you are really needing to move to Canada, not just wishing, is to gather your documents together and submit your profile in the EE pool as soon as possible. Also, make sure you either have a master’s degree or the TEF or TCF Canada test result with NCLC 8 or more. Likewise, you must be young within 18 – 39 years old or have an educated or bilingual common-law partner or spouse who would boost your eligibility. For more information, contact us today!