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🇨🇦 Canada Adds Up to 150 CRS Points for High-Wage Work in Express Entry Overhaul
New labour-market points land November 3 — here's who gains, plus the three draws that beat the pause.
In this week’s issue, Canada expands its low-wage LMIA freeze to 30 cities, New Brunswick reopens its doors to retail and hospitality workers, and proof-of-citizenship waits climb to 34 months even as the backlog finally shrinks.
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🇨🇦 Canada Adds Up to 150 CRS Points for High-Wage Work in Express Entry Overhaul  Canada is reshaping how Express Entry ranks candidates, adding a new labour-market factor worth up to 150 CRS points for high-wage Canadian work experience or a qualifying job offer — and dropping the LMIA requirement for those job-offer points. The changes take effect November 3, and invitation rounds will pause while existing scores are recalculated. 💼 Up to 150 points, earned one of two ways 📄 No LMIA needed for the new points ⏸️ Draws pause — update your profile now |
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TRENDING NEWS Canada has expanded its low-wage LMIA freeze to 30 cities, adding Halifax, Fredericton, Kingston, St. Catharines–Niagara, Regina and Lethbridge while dropping Kamloops and Chilliwack. In these areas, where unemployment sits at or above six per cent, Service Canada generally won’t process low-wage applications submitted between October 9 and January 7. Some occupations remain exempt. Read more New Brunswick is reopening to retail and hospitality workers, lifting its blanket block on Atlantic Immigration Program endorsements for accommodation and food services as of September 14. Effective October 14, the province also removed four retail occupations — including retail sales supervisors, salespersons and visual merchandisers — from its exclusion list, widening options for employers and workers alike. Read more Canada has suspended nearly 25,000 immigration documents under its Ebola border measures, with 24,945 documents paused and 33,795 applications held up as of September 15, according to the Canada Gazette. The measures apply to people abroad who list the DRC, Uganda or South Sudan as their country of residence, and run from May 27 to November 27. Read more Proof-of-citizenship waits have climbed to 34 months, up from 33 a month earlier — even as IRCC’s backlog shrank for the first time since June, down to about 130,700 people from 136,000. The longer estimate reflects how slowly older files are clearing, so anyone planning around a citizenship certificate should budget for close to three years. Read more |
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📊 Numbers to Know — Express Entry Draws
These were the final rounds before Express Entry pauses for the November 3 CRS changes. |
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