{"id":636,"date":"2021-03-21T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2021-08-09T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T01:19:12","slug":"express-entry-5000-cec-candidates-invited-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/express-entry-5000-cec-candidates-invited-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"CIC News – Express Entry: 5,000 CEC candidates invited Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada invited 5,000 Express Entry candidates to apply for permanent residence on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invited candidates needed to be eligible for the\u00a0Canadian Experience Class\u00a0(CEC) and have a score of at least 449 in order to receive an\u00a0Invitation to Apply. Some of the basic eligibility requirements for the CEC include one year of full-time skilled work experience in Canada, and intermediate official language skills among other criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candidates who had the minimum score of 449 were only included if they submitted their\u00a0Express Entry\u00a0profile before February 19, 2021 UTC, as per the\u00a0tie-break rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new CEC-only draw shows that\u00a0Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada\u00a0(IRCC) is continuing to prioritize in-Canada immigration applicants, while travel restrictions are still in place. About 77 per cent of Express Entry candidates in Canada are eligible for the CEC, according to IRCC data from March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile travel restrictions are still in place, the federal government has opted to focus on Express Entry candidates who are already in Canada in order to meet its immigration targets for 2021.\u201d said Attorney David Cohen, Senior Partner of Campbell Cohen. \u201cIRCC has been doing this by holding PNP- and CEC-specific draws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous Express Entry draw on\u00a0March 17\u00a0targeted\u00a0Provincial Nominee Program\u00a0(PNP) candidates, another group that is likely to have strong ties to Canada. PNP-only candidates have demonstrated to the province that nominated them that they have the necessary skills to support the regional labour market. These candidates have higher CRS scores because receiving a PNP automatically grants Express Entry candidates an additional 600 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the first CEC-only draw since February 13, when IRCC invited every single CEC-eligible candidate from the Express Entry pool, a total of\u00a027,332 immigration candidates.
Because of this record-smashing draw, the number of ITAs issued in 2021 is already 43,840. At this time last year, IRCC had issued 19,368.

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To make up for a lack of new permanent residents admitted in 2020, Canada has committed to bring in\u00a0401,000 new immigrants in 2021. Of those, 108,500 are expected to come through\u00a0Express Entry-managed programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada invited 5,000 Express Entry candidates to apply for permanent residence on March 18. Invited candidates needed to be eligible for the\u00a0Canadian Experience Class\u00a0(CEC) and have a score of at least 449 in order to receive an\u00a0Invitation to Apply. Some of the basic eligibility requirements for the CEC include one year of full-time skilled work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanecanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}