New Criteria for Canadian Experience Class to be launched in January 2013

changes in Canadian Experience Class would favor the temporary workers

   

Jason Kenney, Immigration Minister has announced the proposed changes in the criteria of Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Worker Program.

The changes in Canadian Experience Class

The changes in this class would reduce the work experience for a temporary foreign worker from 24 months to 12 months.

This would be the criteria for the temporary foreign workers applying for permanent resident-ship.

The other requirements for CEC

The applicant must have a work experience of at least 37.5 paid hours per week.

The applicant should be a graduate. He should also fulfill the criteria of language. In fact, the proficiency of language will be very important criteria for giving weight to his application.

The intention of the changes

The changes are made with the intention of giving a fair chance to the temporary immigrants who hold a working experience in Canada rather than preferring those who would be coming from outside. The Department feels that they would be able to integrate with the society more than a new comer.

Information from the Minister

The Minister, Jason Kenney has informed that the micro details of the reached program would be published in the first half of the coming year.

Also, the New Year would accept a very few number of applications.

He says, “We have been making a lot of changes to our economic immigration system. We will take next few months to do a lot of the heavy lifting to get us closer to a fast and flexible immigration system.”

The past story

The world remembers the announcement in July of 2012 about returning the applications made post February 2008 wherein it was decided to refund the processing fee to the applicants too. The attempt was to clear the backlog as soon as possible.

Even now, the Department seems to be in a mood of accepting a fewer number of applications than they did before.

Canadian Experience Class is the category of Immigration which can attract the best talents across the world. Hence making it effective and fast as well flexible is a great measure to boost the economy of the nation too. This would invite more and more skilled people from the other nations to be a part of development process in the country.