Ottawa: Government of Canada has decided to bring some changes in the Express Entry system to invite candidates to fulfill real-time labour requirements, officials said.

According to a new proposed bill, the government is planning to invite candidates under Express Entry based on criteria including specific academic credentials and industry based occupations.

According to the immigration minister Sean Fraser government is reviewing present express entry process along these lines in various discussions with stakeholders, or in public forums is underway to bring some changes in the system.

Presently, this system ranks candidates from a general pool after considering factors including age, education, job offer, work experience, language skills and those meet the cut-off in the Comprehensive Ranking Score are being invited as permanent residents by Canadian government.

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Ottawa: Waiting for their application approval from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for Permanent Residency under express entry system for over one and half year due to Covid-19, now the application would be processed within six months following steps taken by authorities to streamline the process again.

Before the Covid pandemic, mostly all files under Express were processed within six months but due to coronavirus now Non-Canadian Experience Class (CEC) Express Entry applicants are waiting for over 20 months on average to process their application.

However, in a good news for applications waiting to gaining Canadian permanent residence, IRCC recently announced that it will soon be processing all the files in a time frame and they are resuming Express Entry invitations to Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) and Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP) candidates in early July.

The Canadian authorities imposed an embargo since December 2020 while CEC candidates have not received invitations since September 2021, however, this is not any longer be the case come July.

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Ottawa: Government od Canada has updated proof of settlement funds requirement for Express entry candidates.

According to the fresh directions, express entry candidates in Federal Skilled Workers Program and Federal Skilled Trade Program have to update their files. The changes, however, do not apply to those who have a job offer in Canada.

Meanwhile, candidates have until June 8 to update their if they have less than the above amount mentioned in the their documents.

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