In 2021, Canada has yet to award FSWP candidates with Express Entry invitations.
With only two months left in the year, it's unclear whether IRCC would invite FSWP candidates again in 2021.
IRCC disclosed it has yet to make a decision on when it will resume sending Express Entry invites to all candidates at a meeting on October 21st between Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and groups representing Canadian immigration attorneys and consultants.
Waiting for the new federal cabinet to settle in is a part of the decision-making process, according to the department. On September 20, Canada held a federal election, and the Liberal Party of Canada, which won, revealed their cabinet on October 26.
With the new cabinet in place, the IRCC will be able to bring substantial suggestions to Sean Fraser, the new immigration minister, for approval. For example, in the first half of this year, former immigration minister Marco Mendicino proposed and subsequently accepted the proposal to invite only Canadian Experience Class and Provincial Nominee Program candidates to the Express Entry lotteries in 2021.
Express Entry is the most common option for low-income immigrants to enter Canada. If you want to immigrate through Express Entry, you must be eligible for one of three programmes:
· Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP)
· Canadian Experience Class (CEC)
· Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP)
Express Entry also manages a portion of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), as long as an applicant fits the requirements of one of the following programmes.
Candidates who are eligible must next upload their profiles to the IRCC website. They are given a CRS score based on human capital qualities like age, education, English and/or French abilities, and work experience, among other things. Prior to the corona virus epidemic, the IRCC ran bi-weekly lotteries to select the best candidates for permanent residency.
FSWP candidates were the primary recipients of Invitations to Apply (ITA) for permanent residence prior to COVID. Because the FSWP has the greatest language proficiency requirement of the three programmes, they tend to have better CRS scores than CEC and FSTP candidates.
FSWP candidates must have their foreign education reviewed, and they often have more work experience than CEC candidates, which contributes to their better CRS scores.
The CEC and FSTP have no formal schooling requirements, and because the majority of its candidates are former international students, who are typically younger in age, CEC candidates typically have less work.
IRCC routinely considered candidates from all three programmes in each Express Entry draw prior to the outbreak of the pandemic in Canada. When Canada implemented pandemic-related travel restrictions in March 2020, IRCC switched to program-specific drawings, in which only PNP and CEC candidates were evaluated. The reason for continuing to welcome PNP candidates was that IRCC had a responsibility to assist provinces and territories in meeting their labour market needs. The logic behind CEC drawings was that because these people were largely in Canada, they were less likely to be affected by COVID issues like travel limitations.
On July 8, 2020, IRCC held the first pandemic-related all-program draw (an all-program draw is one that considers all Express Entry candidates). Between September and December of last year, it held all-program draws after briefly returning to program-specific draws, including one for FSTP candidates only.
IRCC, on the other hand, has exclusively invited PNP and CEC candidates since the beginning of this year. Internal IRCC briefing documents obtained through access to information requests by CIC News explain why IRCC is taking this route. This year, one of IRCC's major responsibilities is to meet its target of 401,000 new permanent residents.
IR The epidemic was still raging, vaccines were slow to reach out, and many travel restrictions remained in place when IRCC took stock of the situation at home and abroad at the start of 2021. The IRCC determined that the best method to meet its 401,000 newcomer goal was to limit Express Entry invitations to PNP and CEC candidates in the first half of the year. This would be in addition to previous recent actions, such as providing up to 90,000 more permanent residence spaces to temporary immigrants in Canada during the pandemic. IRCC presented Mendicino with this plan, which he approved.
On April 7, 2021, there were around 145,000 FSWP candidates in the Express Entry pool, according to IRCC data provided to CIC News. As of June 29, the number had risen to 153,000. Because applicant profiles expire after one year and language tests and educational competency assessments have expiration dates, the pool's size does not necessarily rise over time. However, because prior and new candidates upload their profiles in order to be considered for a permanent residence invitation, the pool size grows with time.
The benefits and drawbacks of the IRCC's present strategy
The key advantage of IRCC's continued concentration on CEC and PNP invites is that it provides the Canadian government with assurance that it will meet its immigration targets during what has been an uncertain era in history due to the pandemic. It made logical for IRCC to focus on inviting individuals who lived in Canada when it announced its Express Entry decision earlier this year. Despite the fact that the majority of Canada's travel restrictions have been abolished, IRCC is likely to continue delaying FSWP invitations in order to focus on processing the applications of people who are most likely to complete their permanent residency landings in the near future. IRCC has landed around 267,000 new permanent residents.
On the other hand, now that travel restrictions are mostly lifted, it appears that IRCC's policy is less reasonable. In theory, there's nothing stopping IRCC from inviting FSWP candidates now and then and processing their applications past 2021. Furthermore, IRCC runs the risk of alienating FSWP applicants, who may believe they are being treated unfairly for no reason other than their own. Due to the continuous delays in FSWP invites, some of these candidates may now have to spend additional expenditures, such as retaking their language test.
I am a candidate for the FSWP. Is it worthwhile to join the Express Entry pool right now?
The biggest disadvantage of applying to the Express Entry pool today as an FSWP applicant is that your language test may expire if you do not acquire an ITA within the two-year validity term. If this happens, you'll have to retake the language test, which will cost you more time and money.
On the other hand, there are benefits to jumping into the pool right now. They include the fact that applicants offer themselves an opportunity to acquire an ITA, however if they are outside the pool, their chances of receiving an ITA are nil.
I am a candidate for the FSWP. Is it worthwhile to join the Express Entry pool right now?
The biggest disadvantage of applying to the Express Entry pool today as an FSWP applicant is that your language test may expire if you do not acquire an ITA within the two-year validity term. If this happens, you'll have to retake the language test, which will cost you more time and money.
On the other hand, there are benefits to jumping into the pool right now. They include the fact that applicants offer themselves an opportunity to acquire an ITA, however if they are outside the pool, their chances of receiving an ITA are nil.
Being in the pool also allows candidates the opportunity to get a provincial nomination invitation, which, if accepted, will earn them 600 more CRS points and almost ensure that they will acquire an ITA.
Candidates that participate in the pool have a chance to obtain a job offer worth up to 200 CRS points.
Finally, while we do not know when IRCC will resume inviting FSWP candidates, it is crucial to recall that it has stated that it looks forward to resuming invitations to FSWP candidates as soon as it is able to.
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