Single travel document to Canada, cancellation of processing fees and other news of the week

Help for Ukrainians

Canada's visa centers in Europe are overloaded. Because of this, Ukrainians who have applied for a temporary relocation program are offered to obtain a one-entry electronic visa to avoid waiting up to six weeks for its insertion in the passport. You just have to show a printed letter from the Department of Immigration to get into Canada. Entry is one-time and time-limited. If you want a regular physical visa in your passport, however, you will have to wait.

Canadian provinces continue to report new measures to help Ukrainians. In Manitoba, they are opening a reception center near the international airport. They will be able to live there for a while and they will be fed. British Columbia announced grants for higher education for Ukrainians and promised free housing on campuses.

Provincial immigration news

Ontario immigration officials will begin publishing "blacklists" of unscrupulous employers, immigration consultants and immigrant workers as of May 3. We remind you to provide complete and truthful information when you apply for immigration, and to report immediately if anything has changed. So that the consultant does not make mistakes for your money and deprive you of your chance to move to Canada, check their license beforehand. Or you can trust us, my wife Ivanka works as a Canadian licensed immigration consultant.

The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador has reversed its fee for processing immigration applications. The province wants to become a "national leader in receiving and retaining immigrants. Its plan for 2026 is to bring in 5,100 new permanent residents each year. That's a big ambition, but the number of 5,000 and a whopping 5,000 doesn't sound like a big deal to me.

The province of New Brunswick has a different approach. In the fall of 2020, the local Department of Immigration and the Department of Health launched a pilot project to attract foreign nurses. They held special online job fairs for them. Those who wanted to work in New Brunswick were supported free of charge at all stages of immigration: helping them apply, confirm their degrees and certifications, and find jobs and housing. Eighty nurses have already landed jobs, with another 150 in the process.

Immigration selections

Immigration Canada has again sent invitations to apply for permanent residency only to provincial applicants. In the April 13th round of Express Entry invitations were sent to 787 people.

Only two provinces held immigration drawings this week.

Manitoba held a third special selection for Ukrainians. Candidates had to have a strong connection to the province and a confident command of the language. Twenty people were invited in this selection. Since March 9, Manitoba has invited 107 Ukrainians to receive nominations from the province.

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British Columbia conducted a targeted screening and sent out invitations to technology and health care professionals, early childhood educators, veterinarians and animal technicians. A total of 160 people were invited.

Canadian News

B.C. continues to open Kindergarten slots at a cost of $10 CAD a day. Unlike other provinces that signed an agreement with the federal government in 2022, B.C. has had a preschool support program in place for five years. By the end of the year, the province promises to increase the number of low-cost kindergarten slots to 12,500. The plan for the next three years is to raise salaries for all pre-school workers.

Inflation in Canada continues to rise, food and fuel prices rise. The Bank of Canada hiked its key rate twice. It now stands at 1%.

The Canadian government has approved a oil project off the coast of Newfoundland. Within two years, decisions on investments will be made, then the Norwegian company Equinor will build a special vessel that will extract oil from the bottom and create thousands of new jobs. If your profession is related to oil production, you have a chance. They will start pumping oil in 2028.

Companies have conditioned themselves to reduce their emissions to zero by 2050. Environmentalists are still dissatisfied, because all the company's efforts can only reduce harm to nature by one-sixth, the rest of the emissions will come from burning oil. The province has also lifted a moratorium on wind farms. "Equinor promises to provide 1,400 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2050 if the Canadian government invests in the project.

Some Canadian companies are testing a four-day workweek. The pilot program will run until Sept. 1. A British nonprofit is working with Oxford University to promote the idea of a shorter workweek starting in 2018. Studies show that in most cases people manage to do the same job in 32 hours. The U.S. and Canada joined the program in 2022.

A large German company has entered the Canadian intercity market. The Flixbus franchise provides local bus owners with a mobile app, website, marketing, and route planning. Three routes are now up and running in southern Ontario, with plans for routes to British Columbia and Quebec.

In Quebec, the controversy over the protection of the French language continues. An amendment to Bill 96 has been passed that requires English college students to take three subjects in French. Parents of students are afraid that they will not be able to get good grades and enter universities, because in English schools in Quebec there are no subjects in French, it is taught as a second language. Also, the government has banned French school graduates from applying to English colleges. Quebec now has 3,1993 students in English colleges and 1,7708 in French colleges. Staff at English colleges say there are far more applicants than they can accept. The province plans to increase the number of students in French colleges by 100,000 over 20 years. How glad I am that my family and I left Quebec. While it's a great province in many ways, this kind of fiddling with English restrictions is stressful.

Alex Pavlenko, Founder of Immigrant.Today