Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Très exigeant quant aux documents à fournir, le gouvernement Legault a finalisé peu de dossiers de régularisation des demandeurs d’asile qui ont apporté leur contribution durant la pandémie. Ouvert depuis le 14 décembre dernier, après des mois d’attente et de promesses d’Ottawa et de Québec, ce programme vise uniquement les demandeurs d’asile qui ont travaillé au printemps dernier dans le domaine de la santé. Et il cause bien des tracas aux travailleurs québécois. Même si ce programme est pancanadien, le gouvernement Legault, en raison d’un accord avec le gouvernement fédéral en matière d’immigration, demande une liste différente de documents à fournir. Celle-ci est plus exigeante que celle établie par Ottawa, qui s’occupe des demandes de toutes les autres provinces.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1776548/quebec-regularisation-demandeurs-asile-documents-covid

Immigration Québec (IQ) n’a atteint qu’un peu plus de 56 % de son objectif annuel en 2020. Le Plan d’immigration du Québec 2020 prévoyait l’accueil de 43 000 à 44 500 personnes immigrantes. Au 31 décembre 2020, 25 196 personnes immigrantes avaient été admises au Québec. La pandémie a aussi eu des répercussions sur l’immigration francophone en Ontario; seulement 420 nouveaux résidents permanents d’expression française avaient été admis durant les mois d’avril, mai et juin.

https://www.ledroit.com/ma-region/baisse-de-limmigration-au-quebec-et-en-ontario-45bd65ae96284de2b095f1651d1217c9

In the three months since the federal government launched a program to provide permanent residency to some asylum seekers, the number of people living in Quebec who have been approved can be counted on one hand. Out of 462 asylum seekers who have been able to complete the process, only three live in the province, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Advocates say it’s proof the Quebec government is making things too difficult for applicants.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/asylum-seekers-quebec-delay-1.5947002

Eddie Song is a permanent residency applicant living in Winnipeg. He applied through the Express Entry program in February of 2020 and obtained a nomination from the Province of Manitoba. However, his and seven other applicants’ stress levels began to climb when there was no change to the status of their applications for over a year. NCM took their concerns to the IRCC to find out why the applications were delayed, why they were routed to a small IRCC office in Etobicoke, Ont., and how can there be a backlog.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/11/express-entry-applicant-in-limbo-disappointed-by-ircc-response-to-concerns.html

Yaseen Alshehadat said he carefully followed each step to proceed with his citizenship exam before writing the online test in late February. The Mississauga man was relieved when he got an email from the immigration department right away congratulating him for passing the test. But the next day, Alshehadat received a call from an immigration official informing him that his exam result was invalidated because the image of his OHIP card, the piece of photo ID he used for the test, did not register in the system.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/03/11/he-passed-his-canadian-citizenship-test-then-came-a-call-saying-there-was-a-problem.html

International permanent residency holders who have not been able to come to Canada because of COVID-19 travel restrictions will be allowed into the country even if their confirmations have expired, a spokesperson for the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marco Mendicino told CTVNews.ca. The emailed statement said that global migration has been “upended” by the pandemic, and acknowledged that travel restrictions have had a “significant impact” on Canada’s immigration system.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/permanent-residency-holders-stuck-abroad-will-be-able-to-come-to-canada-once-restrictions-lift-feds-say-1.5343881