Ottawa: The immigration minister Sean Fraser has announced that Express Entry invitations to FSWP and CEC candidates will resume by early July.
Minister in a statement said that due to restrictions from 2020 and 2021 amid unprecedented Covid-19, there was a temporarily paused invitations to apply under the federal high-skilled streams, including the Canadian experience class, federal skilled worker class and federal skilled trades class and that led to a delay in the process.
The minister said that Invitations to apply will resume in early July, and the vast majority of new applications will be processed within the 6-month service standard.
Starting in summer 2022, former international students who are in Canada and have a post-graduation work permit expiring between January and December 2022 will qualify for an additional open work permit of up to 18 months. We are exploring a simplified, expeditious process for this, and details will be made available in the weeks ahead, the statement added.