What is immigration? What are the benefits of immigration? Immigration means giving up Chinese nationality? How to immigrate? This article introduces the basic common sense about immigration, summarizes Canada’s immigration policy, predicts the direction of future immigration policy changes, and makes recommendations for international students who intend to come to Canada.

PR Card
Canadian visas are mainly divided into two categories: Temporary Resident Visa and Permanent Resident Visa. Temporary visas cover a wide range of visas, study visas, work visas, etc.
Whether you are in or outside of Canada, you can apply for a permanent resident visa as soon as you meet all the criteria for a certain immigration category in Canada.
New immigrants apply for a Maple Leaf card with a permanent resident visa when they first enter Canada (commonly known as landing). The Immigration Department usually takes 1-3 months to send the Maple Leaf Card to the home, but from the day of landing, you are already a permanent resident of Canada. Enjoy the benefits of Canadian citizens, including:

• The right to enter the country without applying for a visa;
• The right to legal residence, study, and work;
• Enjoy free compulsory education, language and vocational training, and the tuition fee for higher education is about one-third of international students;
• Enjoy free health insurance;
• Other benefits provided by the government, etc.
• Unlike Canadian citizens, permanent residents have the obligation to live and need to live in Canada for 2 years to maintain permanent resident status within 5 years.

Country of Citizenship
Being a permanent resident of Canada (obtaining a Maple Leaf Card) does not lose the current nationality, and the current passport can still enter and exit the country smoothly.
Permanent residents who have lived in Canada for 3 years in 4 years can apply for citizenship and become Canadian citizens. Canada recognizes dual citizenship.

Immigration Pathway
There are more than 60 ways to immigrate to Canada. The government divides these immigration projects into three categories: economic, group clustering and refugees. I will only introduce some of the economic immigrants.
First, I will introduce the Canadian experience immigration and provincial projects that are most closely related to international students.

• Canadian experience immigrants: Applicants have one year of NOC 0, A, B work experience in Canada (in 2013, 6 classes of Class B were excluded, and 200 limits were set for each class B occupation), and the language met certain requirements. Just fine. Canadian experience immigrants are federal immigration programs that meet the requirements regardless of which province they live in. For example, the work experience of this year can be accumulated in any province or in different provinces. It is worth noting that the application for a federal project requires no intention of living in Quebec.
• Quebec immigrants and other provinces nominate immigrants: Some provinces offer projects similar to experience immigrants, requiring work in the province for a period of time, and some provinces can immigrate immediately after receiving master’s and doctoral degrees. The provincial nominee project requires the applicant to have the intent to reside in the province. Applicants usually need to reside in the province when submitting the application. Some projects require the applicant to be a student who graduated from a public institution in the province. The Provincial Immigration Department usually also investigates whether the relatives and assets of the applicant are in the province to determine the intention to live.
  For a detailed description of each project’s requirements, please pay attention to the new generation of immigration consulting and services pages, as well as the immigration and lifestyle categories of our blog.
  I will introduce several immigration projects that are not closely related to international students, and help to understand the direction of Canadian immigration policy.
• Federal Investment Immigration: The investment immigration system is divided into six factors: education background, work experience, age, language, work arrangement, and Canadian adaptability. The score is 100 points and the score is 35 points. Investment immigrants need to provide the Canadian government with a multi-million dollar investment and no interest in a few years. Even so, federal investment immigration has been backlogged for more than five years and no longer accepts new applications.
• Federal Skilled Migration: Skilled immigrants also implement a scoring system that requires applicants to have a NOC 0, A, and B experience for the past 10 years and score more than 67 points. After 2008, it was found that the loose scoring system could not stop a steady stream of applicants. After several reforms, there were very few applicants who met the conditions of federal skilled immigration. The government cut off the applications before 2008 in 2012, and now the tens of thousands of quotas each year are used to handle a large backlog of cases from 08-12.
• EOI: Federal skilled immigrants will be replaced by Express of Interest (EOI) in 2015. The EOI system has been successful in Australia. Applicants with basic conditions for Australian skilled immigration can express themselves through the Skill Select system. The immigration intention is EOI, and Australian employers or state and territory governments can use this system to discover and nominate useful talents and invite them to submit visa applications. If the previous federal skilled immigration is a “one-way application,” then it will be a “two-way choice” between the applicant and the employer.
• Home caregiver: This category has lower requirements for applicants’ qualifications, language, etc., and immigration quotas increase year by year, but only if you need to come to Canada for two years as a live-in caregiver.
• Federal Skilled Migrants: Similar to skilled immigrants, the program requires applicants to work in specific types of work (usually gas welders, fitters, etc.) for more than two years, and is employed by a Canadian employer or has a Canadian mechanic certificate.

We can summarize the current and future immigration direction of Canada from the above policies.

Policy direction summary 1: work-based
Job orientation: Except for very few projects, such as investment immigration (small quotas, has been suspended) and direct immigration of masters and doctors in a few provinces (this policy is also very unstable and may be cancelled), almost every other immigration project needs With Canadian work experience, or Canadian employer sponsorship, I would like to summarize:

Experienced immigrants and some provincial nominations: applicants are required to have six months or more of work experience in Canada or a particular province, or have a specific employer’s guarantee;
Skilled immigrants: will soon be replaced by EOI, the core idea is the two-way selection of applicants and Canadian employers;
Nanny immigrants: engaged in live-in care for two years;
Skilled immigrants: There are two years of technical work experience, and there is a Canadian employer guarantee, or a Canadian certificate, may be replaced by EOI.
Therefore, one of the directions of immigration in the future is to have a job in Canada. In order to immigrate, we will try our best to find a job!

Policy direction summary two: 0, A, B
Although finding a job is the general direction of immigration, not all types of work are worth looking for.
In addition to the special category of home caregiver, almost all policies are moving closer to the NOC 0, A, and B categories, as follows:

Federal skilled immigrants, skilled migrants, and experienced immigrants all require 0, A, and B work experience. Among them, the experienced immigrants also exclude 6 B-class occupations and set limits for all B-type occupations.
Ontario’s employer sponsorship programs only support 0, A, and B jobs.
Saskatchewan removed C and D jobs from 2014.
Alberta supports category C work, and BC and Manitoba currently support C and D jobs, but the tightening is a trend.
We recommend that you must find jobs in categories 0, A, and B. Among them, it is best to have a high-tech and unpopular category of 0, A, or B.

Policy direction summary three: nanny and mechanic

Nanny and mechanics are not decent, especially the nanny: If the mechanic can still have a high income to offset the “indecent”, then the nanny can only get the minimum wage most of the time.
So if you are willing to come to Canada as a babysitter or blue-collar, the road to immigration is still very good. The federal government has recently increased the immigration quota for technicians and nannies, which shows that this is also one of the trends.

Policy Direction Summary 4: Abandoning Ontario and BC

Aside from Quebec, which has a separate immigration policy, Ontario and BC are Canada’s “most comfortable” provinces, with Ontario being the southernmost, relying on the lake, the largest city of Toronto and the capital of Ottawa, in Ontario, the ideal of the eastern provinces. One of the places of residence; BC is on the Pacific Ocean, the seasons are like spring, and the Greater Vancouver area is recognized as a holy place for the elderly. Most of the new immigrants benefiting from federal policies have chosen to settle in these two provinces.
In order to balance the number of provinces and develop remote provinces, the federal government gave most of the provincial nomination quotas to Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, also known as the “three grasslands”. These provinces have very favorable immigration policies for their international students and workforces, provided that you intend to continue living in the province. The Canadian Immigration Department has increased immigration quotas in these three provinces for many years, and now the number of nominees in a province in Manitoba exceeds that of the entire federal experience.
Can I leave after immigration through these provinces? There is such a clause in the Constitution:

Centers to move and gain livelihood: Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the center
(a)to move to and take up residence in any province; and
(b)to pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province.

That is to say, the PR Card can be taken, so the provincial government examines the applicant’s intentions of living through various means. For example, the province of Man Province has no intention of killing relatives who are relatives in other provinces, and foreign students from other provinces are also very vigilant. The provincial government also prolongs the applicant’s stay in the province by requesting study time and working hours. For example, Saskatchewan requires the province’s experienced immigrant applicants to work in the province for more than two years.

Conclusion
Assuming you haven’t come to Canada yet, and your ultimate goal is to settle here, it’s essential to make careful immigration planning and preparation early. Through the above discussion of this article, we can probably summarize the following directions for studying abroad:

• In order to find a job first, it is best to learn a job without any difficulty.
• Such work should be in the NOC 0, A, and B categories. For example, the truck driver is very good at finding a job and has a high salary. However, his job category is C, which does not help the immigrants.
• If you are willing to engage in “indecent” work such as babysitting and mechanics, you will be very helpful to immigrants.
• Abandoning Ontario and British Columbia as destinations for study abroad is somewhat helpful to immigrants.