Saskatchewan Invites 13 Canada Immigration Candidates In New Entrepreneur Draw

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Saskatchewan Invites 13 Canada Immigration Candidates In New Entrepreneur Draw

Saskatchewan immigration has issued 13 invitations in a new Entrepreneur stream draw through the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP).

The January 11 draw required a minimum score of 120 and an average score of 135 points.

The province said all candidates with 125 points or higher were invited to apply. Candidates with 120 points and a Canadian Language Benchmark score of 6 or higher were invited to apply.

Saskatchewan Entrepreneur Stream 2024 Draws

Date Lowest score Average score Highest score Number of invitations
January 120 135 160 13

Saskatchewan prioritizes three selection factors to separate candidates with the same score on the Entrepreneur stream points grid.

The three factors, in order of priority, are:

  1. Official language ability.
  2. Those with businesses planned for a key economic sector.
  3. Completion of an exploratory visit.

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The Saskatchewan immigration Entrepreneur stream is a three-stage process:

  1. Expression of interest
  2. Invitation to submit application
  3. Nomination

The expression of interest must meet the following minimum entry requirements:

  • Minimum net worth of $500,000 legally acquired.
  • Minimum of three years of entrepreneurial or relevant management experience.
  • Investment of at least $300,000 in Regina or Saskatoon, or $200,000 in any other Saskatchewan area.

Candidates enter a pool where they receive a score. The top scoring candidates are invited to submit an application.

Applications must include:

  • Business Establishment Plan confirming figures in expression of interest, and including at least one third ownership of a company in Saskatchewan, unless investment is $1 million or higher.
  • Commitment to be active in day-to-day management of business.
  • Creation of two or more jobs for Canadian citizens or permanent residents if the business is located in Regina or Saskatoon.

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First Few Months Of 2024 To See Thousands Of Ukrainians Come To Canada

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First Few Months Of 2024 To See Thousands Of Ukrainians Come To Canada

Before the end of March, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are expected to enter Canada. This is the deadline for those looking to escape the violence stemming from the Russian invasion to come to Canada on temporary emergency visas.

Ottawa has issued 936,293 such visas since March 2022 for Ukrainians who want to work or study in Canada for the duration of the war.

As of November 28, 210,178 individuals had actually made it to Canada.

More than 90,000 emergency visa holders are considering coming to Canada before the deadline, as per pre-arrival surveys by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and Operation Ukraine Safe Haven.

CBC wrote that thousands of Ukrainians are expected to fly to Manitoba alone before the March-end expiry date.

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The province has accepted more than 20,000 Ukrainians since the beginning of the war, as per Joanne Lewandosky, resident of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Manitoba Provincial Council.

“They’re running from a war. It’s traumatic … They’re leaving their friends, they’re leaving their home,” she said.

“We must work with integrating them and making them feel that they are at home.”

The Operation Ukraine Safe Haven project was created as a “national and coordinated communications initiative to bridge and link communications and resources with key stakeholders involved with supporting Ukrainians coming to Canada.”

“A National Secretariat was established under OUSH-OHPU to focus on post arrival planning phase for Displaced Ukrainians coming to Canada,” reads the program’s website.

“This includes national communication objectives, including referrals for housing offers, donations, volunteers, jobs, and other key orientation resources and communications from provinces and territories.”

Sarosh Rizvi, the organization’s executive director, believes that the next few months will witness a significant increase in the number of Ukrainians coming to Canada in comparison to previous months.

IRCC has been proactive in bringing Ukrainians to Canada temporarily and permanently. It has introduced new immigration streams for them, and will expand settlement services for Ukrainians moving to Canada. The various pathways for this travel include the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET).

Support services for new Ukrainians were primarily derived from community members, who donated clothes and furniture, and businesses, which offered people jobs. Some people even allowed refugees to stay with them at their homes.

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However, people still struggled – despite all these support mechanisms – to find a place for their families to stay while they recovered to their feet.

The support has weakened as the second anniversary of the Russian invasion comes around the corner, wrote The Canadian Press.

“We don’t have the level of public interest that we did two years ago,” Rizvi said in an interview.

The founder of Pathfinder for Ukraine, which is another group dedicated to helping Ukrainians with Canadian immigration, said that “it’s a resource-intensive, costly, emotionally distressing decision to make that move across an ocean.”

“”For many people, Canada is the right choice, but for many of them it’s not,” further added Randall Baran-Chong.

According to him, success in Canada is heavily dependent on adaptability, family ties to Canada, language ability, willingness and ability to work, and financial support.

People holding the special visa who arrive after March 31 can still come to Canada, but will be ineligible for the three-year work or study permit under the program, and will not be entitled to any financial or settlement supports.

Immigration Behind Montreal’s 5.3% Population Surge 

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Immigration Behind Montreal’s 5.3% Population Surge 

The post-pandemic resumption of immigration is behind Montreal’s 5.3 per cent population increase in the last year.

These estimates have been proposed by the Institut de la statistique du Quebec (ISQ), which is the governmental statistics agency for the French-Canadian province.

The city – with a 100,000 boost in its population – grown more than any other major city or province, including its suburbs.  The Quebec government’s population decree for 2024 put Montreal’s population at 1,895,211.

This data includes all people on the territory except tourists, according to CityNews Everywhere. 

It is not just Montreal, however; Quebec municipalities with more than 100,000 people have seen their population rise by an average 3.5 per cent, and those with populations between 10,000 and 100,000 have seen their numbers boost by 0.7 per cent between 2022 and 2023.

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As per ISQ experts, downtown Montreal (the Ville-Marie borough) had a 14 per cent rise in population between 2022 and 2023. While it had 117,823 inhabitants on July 1, 2023, it had only boasted 103,017 a year before.

Côte-des-Neiges-NDG and Montreal North would also have seen significant growth.

Just in November of last year, Quebec had tabled documents in its legislature that laid out plans for the admission of more than 60 thousand immigrants to the French-Canadian province in 2024.

Speaking to reporters in Quebec City then, Legault had said that he did not want to raise the annual immigration rate as that would threaten the French language in the province.

“We chose … to keep the thresholds, so the total number of permanent immigrants accepted per year at 50,000,” he had said, as per CTV News. “We had evaluated the possibility of increasing it to 60,000, but it’s important for us, to stop, to reverse the decline of French.”

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The 2024 immigration plan, however, indicates that Quebec wants to take in more than 12,000 more immigrants per year than Legault’s stated target of 50,000.

The document had said that Quebec – through “regular admission” programs – would welcome around 50,000 people, which will include skilled workers, refugees and people reunited with family already in the province.

It would also accept another estimated 6,500 graduates from French-language university programs, and around 6,000 people who had applied through a stream for investors, entrepreneurs and self-employed workers, reported CTV News in November.

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