🚨 Immigration Updates: Deportation Concerns, BC PNP Changes & Quebec's New PR Cap for Diversity

🚨Deportation of Undocumented Immigrants in Canada: A Growing Concern

Canada is experiencing a rise in the deportation of undocumented immigrants, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to 500,000 individuals living without legal status. Many have overstayed their visas or remained after rejected asylum claims, continuing to work and live in Canada while facing the constant threat of deportation.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has recently intensified its efforts, targeting International Students, Temporary Foreign Workers, and Visitor Visa Holders:

• International Students: Caught working beyond their authorized limits.

• Temporary Foreign Workers: Overstaying their visas and continuing to work illegally.

• Visitor Visa Holders: Engaged in unauthorized employment despite restrictions on their visas.

This surge in deportations has drawn widespread attention, sparking debate over the complex challenges these undocumented immigrants face as they attempt to build lives in Canada amidst stricter immigration enforcement.

What Should You Do?

To avoid deportation, ensure you follow immigration rules:

• Stay within limits: Don’t exceed your visa’s authorized hours or duration.

• Renew on time: Apply for extensions or status changes before your visa expires.

• Follow employment rules: Don’t work without authorization if on a visitor visa.

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📢 Update on BC PNP Student Stream Changes

Are you an international student aiming for permanent residency in BC after graduation? Big changes are coming in 2025 that you need to know about to secure your path to PR.

🗓 Important Dates You Can't Miss

• The International Graduate stream & Post-Graduate stream is being replaced!

• Last chance to apply for the current streams:

  • International Graduate invites close November 2024.

  • International Post-Graduate applications close January 7, 2025.

💡What's New in 2025?

Starting January, BC is introducing three new streams for recent graduates:

1. Bachelor’s Stream

2. Master’s Stream

3. Doctorate Stream

Key Deadline: The new streams will open for registrations in January 2025. Make sure you're ready to apply!

Who Can apply?

🎓 Bachelor’s and Master’s Streams Eligibility

To be eligible for the Bachelor’s or Master’s streams, degrees must be obtained from a post-secondary institution in British Columbia that is authorized to grant degrees. You can find more information about these authorized institutions on the B.C. government’s website.

💼 Job Offer Requirements

Job offers for the Bachelor’s and Master’s streams must be in NOC TEER 1, 2, or 3 occupations.
❗ NOC TEER 0 occupations will not be eligible for either stream.

🎓 Doctorate Stream Eligibility

For the Doctorate stream, only doctoral degrees awarded by a public university in B.C. will qualify. Additionally, PhD students who have been admitted to candidacy at a public university in B.C. can also apply for this stream.

💼 Program Eligibility

The BC PNP will not provide a specific list of approved programs for the new student streams. Graduates from any degree program may be eligible, provided they meet the specific criteria outlined for these streams.

Who Cannot apply?

🎓 Certificate/Diploma Graduates Apply for the Bachelor’s Stream

No, graduates of certificate, diploma, or non-degree programs are not eligible for the Bachelor’s stream.

💼 Other Options for Non-Degree Graduates

Graduates with certificates, diplomas, associate degrees, or post-graduate diplomas can apply to other BC PNP streams, such as:

• Skilled Worker Stream

• Health Authority Stream

• Entry Level and Semi-Skilled (ELSS) Stream

👶 Special Case for Early Childhood Education Graduates

If you’ve completed a certificate or diploma in early childhood education from a B.C. public institution and have a job offer as a certified ECE, you can apply through the Skilled Worker stream. In this case, your education can be used instead of the stream’s typical two-year work experience requirement.

📝 Important Note:
The detailed requirements for these new streams will be updated at the end of 2024 or the first week of 2025. Stay tuned for further updates!

🚨Quebec's New Immigration Policy at a Glance:

• New Cap Introduced: Quebec now limits permanent residency invitations to 25% per country in each selection round.

• Effective Date: The policy took effect on October 9, 2024, and will remain in place until October 9, 2025.

• Programs Affected: Currently applies to the Regular Skilled Worker Program (RSWP), with a possible future extension to the Skilled Worker Selection Program (PSTQ).

• Purpose: To promote diversity among economic immigrants and reduce reliance on applicants from a single region.

• Minister’s Statement: Quebec Immigration Minister Jean François Roberge emphasized that the goal is to enhance diversity and strengthen Quebec's cultural and economic fabric.

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