Recently, the Canadian Immigration Minister revealed that it will use a $85 million Canadian dollar budget to address the slow visa and immigration application caused by the pandemic. By the end of this year, application processing times for categories such as work visas, research visas, citizenship naturalization and maple leaf card renewal will return to the normal processing time range before the epidemic.

Currently, the processing time for various work visa applications estimated by the Canadian Immigration Agency official website is still lagging behind. However, the Immigration Bureau is stepping up its efforts to process all current work visa applications. In 2021, the Ministry of Immigration issued approximately 10 work visas in total, including an international mobility program exempted from LMIA and a foreign labor program that usually requires LMIA. In 2019, the number of work visas issued by the Immigration Bureau was issued.

Typically, the foreign labor program TFWP is mainly used to allow Canadian employers to fill the gap in family labor by hiring foreign workers, while the international liquidity program IMP is mainly used to promote exchanges and development in Canada's economic, social and cultural aspects.

At this stage, the average processing time for a work visa submitted overseas is 60 days, the Canadian International Experience IEC category is 56 days, and the family work visa renewal takes 120 days. Prior to the pandemic, Canadian immigration departments accounted for 87% of their work visa processing visas at normal progress. During the 2020 epidemic, Immigration Canada suspended various applications worldwide, which ultimately led to a large number of cumulative cases. As of February 1 this year, the Ministry of Immigration has a total of 85,000 work visa applications pending.

Canada's Deputy Immigration Minister revealed that it will not use the $85 million Canadian dollar budget to improve processing time for permanent residents' applications, but will mainly be used to develop new online applications and tracking systems. The Immigration Minister has previously stated that the newly accepted spouse reunion application has returned to a normal one-year processing time.

According to the latest job opening statistics, there were many job opportunities in Canada last November alone. Therefore, the acceleration and priority of various work visas are directly related to the normal functioning of the Canadian economy. As a result, Immigration Canada has provided special care for certain highly supply high demand occupations. For example, a work visa under the Global Talent Program GTS can only be processed within 10 working days. Canadian employers who need to hire high-tech talents can hire the required talents as soon as possible through the program.

In addition, Quebec has introduced special policies for certain much-needed occupational categories. Qualified employers and positions do not have to spend time posting job advertisements, but instead directly apply for the Ministry of Labor to approve the LMIA, which greatly accelerates the review of the entire process.

About a quarter of all work visa applications in 2021 require labor approval of LMIA, while the other three quarters are labor visa applications, which are exempt from the Ministry of Labor Approval LMIA.

If you already have a valid visa in Canada, you can apply for renewal before the work visa expires and you can continue working under the same working conditions until you get the new work visa approval result. If you submit a permanent resident application while working, you can also apply for a bridge work visa Bowp and wait for an approved permanent resident application while continuing to work.

The information in this article is for reference only, and the detailed information is subject to the official website.