In 2019, Indians bagged 40,275 invites, or 47% of total, to apply for permanent residence in Canada

MUMBAI: Indian citizens bagged 40,275 invites to apply for permanent residence in Canada, under the ‘Express Entry’ route. This is 47% of the total invites (85,300) which were issued to Express Entry candidates during 2019, by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) -the immigration arm of the Canadian government. A fair share of these Indians includes those already working in Canada or migrating from US - owing to Trump administration’s increasing protectionist immigration regime.

As per the newly released report - the overall 2019 statistic of 85,300 is a slight decline from the 89,800 invitations issued in 2018. Likewise, the number of invites to Indian citizens declined by 3.36% from the earlier year’s statistic of 41,678. Indians, continued to top the charts, in all the three years, captured in this report.

Express Entry is a system used by the Canadian governr^|t to manage applications from skilled and qualified workers, for permanent residence through three economic immigration programs. These are the Federal Skilled Worker Class, Canadian Experience Class and the Federal Skilled Trades Class.

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