2015 Year end report for Express Entry

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Following is a summary from the policy making Conference where the Canadian Immigration Minister John McCallum was present.

In the last 1 year 31,063 ITAs issued- a total of 13,214 (42.6%) of them were issued under FSW, 11,228 (36.1%) were issued under CEC, 4,105 (13.2%) were issued under PNP, and 2,516 (8.1%) were issued under FST. Out of these majority were those who were working as a Food Service Supervisor, Cooks and some in IT profession- who were already in Canada on LMIA/job offer. Then second those applicants come who got nomination from Provinces.

Now this year no new LMIA are being issued/or very few LMIA’s are being issued, this year no enhanced provincial nominee program for the express entry has also opened yet. So all the people who were on LMIA/on PNP, in Canada have already got the invite, as of now 87% - Percent of active candidates are there in the Express Entry Pool with CRS scores of 300-450. See the CRS distribution chart In my previous email, so obviously the cutoff points has to come down to 300’s to meet the immigration annual targets.

Below are the points that were brought into at the conference:
· 54% of EE profiles rejected because minimum entry requirements not met
· IRCC hints it expects a drop in CRS min score for Express Entry rounds of invitations by fall 2016
· Police certificates need not be recent if applicant has not been back to that country
· Program hierarchy shifted. Candidate eligible under different programs will get ITA for CEC
· Hon John McCallum says top objective of IRCC is to "let people in rather than keep people out"
· Min. McCallum says “will improve Express Entry to make it the first choice of businesses seeking immigrants”
· Minister looking to increase points awarded to international grad and post-grad students under EE.
· Looking into the LMIA process to make changes
· What's ahead for Express entry - course correction will continue over time as IRCC gathers more data
· Language test results must be valid throughout the time in Express Entry Pool

Canada's immigration minister wants to make a federal program that fast-tracks permanent residency for skilled workers the top choice for businesses seeking employees from overseas. The minister said temporary foreign workers topped the list, while provincial nominees were in the middle and express entry was at the bottom -- an order McCallum says he'd like to see reversed. "The challenge with me is to improve express entry to make it more flexible, more fluid, more accessible, more desirable for those businesses wanting to bring immigrants to this country," McCallum said in Vancouver.
He said the government is looking at a number of options, including giving more points to students under the express entry program, which currently prioritizes immigrants who are skilled workers. John McCallum told to all immigration lawyers in Vancouver that he wants to hear our input as the government continues a review of its express entry program.

 

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Re: 2015 Year end report for Express Entry (Some more interesting data)

The end-of-year report provides a range of highly useful information for Express Entry candidates for immigration to Canada. The data given in the report covers the entirety of 2015, encompassing the first 23 draws (also known as rounds of invitations), while also providing a snapshot of the composition of the pool taken from a data extract on January 3, 2016.

Over the course of 2015, a total of 31,063 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) were issued to individuals around the world looking to immigrate to Canada. Through the report, we learned the following:
§ Many candidates in IT occupations have been issued ITAs, while individuals working in the food service industry have also fared well.
§ The majority of candidates issued ITAs were residing in Canada.
§ More than half of all invited candidates were nationals of one of the following five countries: India, Philippines, China, the U.K., and Ireland.
§ IRCC has stated that ‘Future invitation rounds from the Express Entry pool will become the main source of applications to meet annual immigration levels targets for certain economic immigration programs under the Express Entry system as the older inventories are reduced.’

Express Entry – The Numbers*

· 36.57% - Percent of active candidates in the Express Entry Pool relative to the number of Express Entry Profiles submitted.
· 61% - Percent of applications for permanent residence received by CIC relative to the number of invitations issued.
· 87% - Percent of active candidates in the Express Entry Pool with CRS scores of 300-450.
· 44% - Percent of invitations issued to Indian Nationals representing the first source country of nationality.
· 25% - Percent of invitations issued to candidates who list Canada as their current place of residence.
· 16% - Percent of applicants admitted to Canada annually under the Quebec skilled worker program.
*Statistics compiled from data issued by IRCC (CIC)
Focus on occupations
In the run-up to the launch of Express Entry, the government of Canada stated that the new system would ensure that Canada’s economic and labour market needs are met. For the Express Entry system, as compared with previous systems, intake caps for specific occupations were done away with.

Express Entry is intended to be a flexible system that is more responsive to the immediate needs of Canadian employers and provinces. As such, eligible candidates who obtain a qualifying job offer (supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment) or provincial nomination certificate are issued an ITA at a subsequent draw from the pool, regardless of their occupation. It should be noted, however, that a job offer is not required in order for a candidate to receive an ITA. Indeed, at least 40% of all ITAs issued in 2015 were issued to candidates who did not have a job offer.
The top 10 most invited occupations made up 10,685 (or 38%) of the total number of ITAs issued. These occupations were:

IT professionals and business and finance professionals have been successful at obtaining ITAs. According to IRCC, these candidates often have high human capital with no valid job offer, while candidates with NOCs beginning with 63 are more likely to have first arrived in Canada on a work permit and later obtained a job offer.

Given that early draws selected a large number of candidates under the Canadian Experience Class (CEC), it is likely that a large number of food service supervisors and cooks already in Canada were invited over the first few rounds of invitations. As time goes on, the relative number of invitees in such occupations is expected to decrease; the figures heading into 2016 and beyond will likely reveal a wider range of occupations, particularly in professional occupations such as IT and business.

CEC dominates early draws before PNP becomes more popular, FSW steady throughout
As stated above, earlier draws selected a large number of CEC candidates. This was because of the high number of foreign workers with LMIA-backed job offers who wished to immigrate to Canada permanently. Indeed, the third draw from the pool selected CEC candidates exclusively.

Over time, however, Canadian provinces engaged more actively with the system and issued an increasing number of enhanced provincial nomination certificates, which consequently led to an increase in PNP invitations. Throughout the year, a significant number of candidates were issued invitations under the Federal Skilled Worker Class (FSWC). A small, but steady, number of invitations were issued under the Federal Skilled Trades Class (FSTC).
Of the 31,063 ITAs issued during 2015, a total of 13,214 (42.6%) of them were issued under FSW, 11,228 (36.1%) were issued under CEC, 4,105 (13.2%) were issued under PNP, and 2,516 (8.1%) were issued under FST.


Average processing times well within IRCC target
When Express Entry was introduced, the government of Canada set a target to process at least 80% of complete applications within six months. Not only has this target been reached — it has actually been surpassed, and comfortably. This aspect of Express Entry has been an unambiguous success, and leaves the system in a competitive position to continue to attract new candidates who wish to take control of their own destiny and apply to an immigration system that is responsive and swift.

Country of residence and citizenship of invited candidates
While more than three quarters (78.1%) of invited candidates over the course of 2015 were residing in Canada, this figure is lower than it was for the mid-year report published by CIC/IRCC. At that time, and over the course of the first 11 draws only, 85.5% of invited candidates were residents of Canada.

The country of citizenship of invited candidates is more varied and reflects the origin of qualified candidates from the pool. According to IRCC, it is anticipated that the top ten countries of citizenship will continue to shift as more candidates are invited to apply over time.

The year-end report covers the period from January 1, 2015 to January 3, 2016, which takes into account the first 23 draws from the pool. In the year 2016, 8 draws have happened till now, total 31 draws have happened.

Through the report, we learned the following:

As of January 3, a total of 191,279 Express Entry profiles had been submitted. Of these, 88,048 were found not eligible because they did not meet the criteria of at least one of the three programs managed by the system, namely the Federal Skilled Worker Class, the Federal Skilled Trades Class, and the Canadian Experience Class. On January 3, a total of 1,303 profiles were pending due to Job Bank registration or verification of a Provincial Nomination (PN).

A total of 63,937 candidates were in the pool on January 3. Of these, 3,895 had received an Invitation to Apply (ITA) but had not yet submitted an application (candidates have 60 days to do so after receiving an ITA).

Of the profiles that had left the pool, the overwhelming majority (21,651) were applications that had been submitted for processing. Other profiles had either been withdrawn or reached the 12-month expiry date

 

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U missed one point of candidates having canadian sibling will be awarded more points in EE