News of the week: elections and immigration records

The week of August 16-22 was marked by large-scale immigration screenings.

Immigration selections

During the week, Canada held a surprisingly large number of immigration draws, inviting thousands of applicants to apply for permanent residency. The provinces of Alberta and Quebec especially distinguished themselves with record-breaking selections. Quebec held its largest draw this year, selecting 515 candidates and Alberta invited 396 people — not seen since 2019.

British Columbia and Saskatchewan also sent out more invitations than usual. British Columbia selected 427 professionals. Saskatchewan, on the other hand, delighted with 496 candidates, and this, by the way, is the province's second major selection in a row.

The province of Ontario has held its first immigration draw for graduates with master's and doctoral degrees. Not long ago, the selection system for these streams changed. A total of 479 people were invited, and the stream for doctoral graduates was marked by a very low pass rate.

Unfortunately, Express Entry selections were not happy with the number of invitations. In the stream for provincial immigration program participants, 463 candidates were selected, which is the lowest number since April of this year.

The Canadian Experience Program has issued 3,000 invitations — although this is more than the other selections, the number of invitations for this stream can be as high as 6,000 at a time. Perhaps these modest numbers are due to the fact that the annual target for the number of accepted immigrants through Express Entry has almost been reached.

Immigration news

For two months in a row, Canada has broken records in the number of invited immigrants. While 35,700 invitations were issued in June, 39,500 were issued in July. The country is getting closer and closer to its goal of welcoming 401,000 new immigrants in 2021. In order to meet it, it will have to continue to keep the numbers high. Judging by the record-breaking selections for August, it is quite possible that this month will not fall short of the previous ones.

Very soon there will be a very important event in Canada — parliamentary elections. They were not supposed to take place until 2023, but will be held early. There are two possible outcomes in the election: either the incumbent party will win more seats in parliament, or it will lose and the government will change. We tried to figure out what will happen to immigration in both cases will happen to immigration.