India is the first source country when it comes to the count of immigrants from all over the world to Canada. In the year 2019, Indians comprised a quarter of total immigrants welcomed in to Canadian provinces.

The number of Indian origin immigrants has been substantially increasing since 2016. Indian immigrants in 2016 clocked at 1,374,710 people out of all immigrants welcomed, according to the Census.

Experts found that out of all people who applied through the Express Entry draw, Indians accounted for almost half of the applicants for permanent residency between 2017 and 2019. Compared to that Nigeria and China, the second and third most common source countries respectively only made up 7 percent of the Canadian immigration applicants.

Despite Express Entry being the main source for Canadian Immigration , there are still over a 100 economic class immigration programs to choose from.

Express Entry

Express Entry draw is the most popular and used way to immigrate into Canada for skilled workers in particular.

Express Entry pool requires you to be eligible for one of the following programs, namely;

 Federal Skilled Worker Program;

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 Federal Skilled Trades Program; and

 Canadian Express Class.

You will have to go through linguistic test for English and/or French. And Degrees, Diplomas or certificates you may have achieved outside of Canada, will be needed to get an Educational Credential Assessment.

Once in the pool you will assigned a score-based factors like your age, work experience, education, linguistic proficiency and other similar factors. That score will be maintained and assessed as per Comprehensive Ranking system.

Express Entry draws are held on a regular basis with public announcements to attract, invite and welcome high skilled, high score achieving applicants who can cater to the needs of the economy and markets of Canada.

Provincial Nominee Programs

Provincial nominations are a great option if you are interested in a specific Canadian province or territory to live in.

Provincial nominations are done usually to fill the provincial market labor needs. Every province in Canada except for Quebec and Nunavut participate in PNPs. Provincial nominee programs  can be Base programs or Enhanced programs.

Applicants in Enhanced programs need an Express Entry profile to qualify. In the base programs the federal government handles the immigration process directly.

Upon receiving a Nomination, applicants are also awarded with additional 600CRS points which reserves an Invitation to Apply (ITAs) in their name for permanent residency.

100 Pathways

Programs like Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot help small remote communities to nominate foreign workers for permanent residence. Quebec on other hand has its own immigration program tailored for bi-linguistic

French speakers.