After a year 2024 marked by a decline for temporary foreign workers, 2025 also promises to be difficult in Canada for immigrants seeking permanent residence. First of all, “permanent residence sponsorship applications for parents are suspended” until further notice, reports -. For now, Ottawa will focus on the requests received last year. Authorities will process a maximum of 15,000 applications under the now-closed family reunification program. And, for these, you will have to be patient: a government report states that the average time for a sponsorship application is twenty-four months.
In addition, the Canadian government has decided to delay the deployment of a new pathway to permanent residence for nannies and caregivers. What does, writes The Globe and Mail, what “Thousands of foreign caregivers could be forced to leave the country or risk staying there illegally” when the programs concerning them end in June, “while new pilot programs” are slow to be launched.
Spouses of targeted foreign workers and students
In addition to notable reductions in permanent residency targets for 2025, 2026 and 2027, summarizes CTV News, starting this year, “Spouses of foreign workers will only be eligible for their own work permit if the worker works in a high-skilled or high-demand sector.” Additionally, international students at colleges and universities who wish to acquire a work permit after graduation will need to meet new language proficiency requirements. And international graduates of college programs will only be eligible for a work permit “only if they study in fields linked to recognized labor shortages”.
The election next spring of a Conservative government following the defeat of the Liberals led by the resigning Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, would deal another blow to immigration policies. The Press notes that the Conservative leader has already suggested “that it would reduce ‘massively’ the number of temporary immigrants, whose influx is according to him ‘out of control’”.
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