Canada welcomed the highest number of permanent residents In January since before the coronavirus crisis began, with 26,600 new arrivals, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said in an interview with Bloomberg.
Mendicino added that the number of newcomers admitted up to the middle of February is 40 percent ahead of where Canada needs to be to hit its 2021 target of 401,000 new permanent residents.
He told Bloomberg that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had ‘sprinted out of the gates’ with its permanent resident admissions at the start of 2021.
The January figure is more than double the 10,795 newcomers welcomed in December 2020, and higher than the 24,695 new permanent residents record in January 2020, before travel restrictions to the stop the spread of COVID-19 had been put in place.
The figures are the latest indication that Canada is serious about meeting its ambitious targets of welcoming more than 400,000 newcomers in each of the next three years.
It follows an unprecedented Express Entry draw earlier in February that saw 27,000 invitations issued to Canadian Experience Class candidates, dwarfing the previous single draw record of 5,000 ITAs. The draw saw the minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score drop to 75, also an unprecedented record low.
Canada’s strategy is to invite candidates already in the country on a temporary basis, accounting for 90 percent of those invited in the recent record draw.
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Strict COVID-19 restrictions on non-essential international travel imposed by Ottawa since March 2020 dramatically cut the number of newcomers by almost half in 2020, to 184,370 from 341,175 in 2019.
Despite the restrictions still being in place, Canada has once again displayed its ability to pivot its immigration policies to attract newcomers to help foster the economic recovery as the coronavirus crisis abates.
Canada has enhanced screening measures and pre-arrival testing for anyone entering the country’s land or air borders and a 14-day quarantine for non-essential travellers.
As of Monday February 22, all travellers coming to Canada by air for non-essential reasons need to stay in government-designated hotels for three days at their own costs after getting a COVID-19 test.
Ottawa recently extended its restrictions on non-U.S. international travel to Canada until April 21, and its restrictions on those from the United States until March 21.
Canada currently has exemptions in place for the following people, provided they are travelling for a non-discretionary reason.
Canada has been plagued by COVID-19 vaccine delivery issues but the country’s prime minister has reassured Canadians that anyone wanting to be vaccinated will be able to do so by the end of September.
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