Nearly 93 percent of those polled thought the epidemic would have "no influence" or make them "more interested" in obtaining permanent residency in Canada.
According to a recent study of over 13,000 potential immigrants, there is still a lot of interest in moving to Canada.
World Education Services (WES) Canada, an authorized supplier of Educational Credential Assessments (ECA) for Canadian immigration, performed the survey.
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In 2020, WES surveyed ECA applicants to assess the influence of the Coronavirus pandemic on their chances of obtaining permanent residency in Canada.
WES conducted a follow-up survey in August 2021 to compare responses and evaluate if the changing pandemic scenario had influenced respondents' desires to move to Canada.
According to WES, the number of people interested in coming to Canada has been unchanged since 2020. Nearly half of those polled claimed the epidemic will have no effect on their intentions to immigrate. Nearly 93% thought the epidemic would either have "no influence" or "increase their interest."
In the 2021 poll, 33% of respondents stated they believed the pandemic will have a negative impact on employment availability in Canada, down from 45% in 2020. Meanwhile, 35% of respondents believe the epidemic will have a favourable influence on employment availability, compared to only 27% in 2020.
Because of the Canadian government's and health-care system's abilities to control the pandemic and care for COVID-19 patients, 58 per cent of respondents said they were more interested in immigrating to Canada.
Only 21% said the pandemic would cause them to postpone their intentions to immigrate to Canada, compared to 35% in 2020.
On the other side, 22% of respondents stated they want to immigrate to a nation other than Canada, up from 13% in 2020.
Even if they faced difficult economic or personal situations, respondents expressed a strong desire to achieve Canadian permanent residence status. For example, 74% responded that an economic downturn in Canada would either have no effect or strengthen their desire to become permanent residents. This is an increase from the 69 percent who said the same thing in the 2020 poll.
They were also more hopeful about career prospects in Canada than in their home nations throughout the epidemic. COVID-19 would have little or a favourable impact on jobs in their occupation or industry, according to 77 percent of respondents, compared to 69 per cent in their home country. Only 23% thought it would have a negative impact, down from 28% who thought it would have a negative impact on jobs in their occupation or sector in Canada in 2020.
Travel limitations, a large rise in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) processing periods, and a drop in jobs in Canada were the top three reasons stated by persons contemplating delaying immigration to Canada.
Before the epidemic, Canada was planning to accept additional 341,000 immigrants in 2020, largely from lower-income countries. To combat the spread of COVID, it enforced travel restrictions, resulting in a drop in new immigrant arrivals to barely 184,000 that year.
The majority of the travel restrictions have subsequently been relaxed. The epidemic, however, has raised the IRCC's backlog to 1.8 million applications, slowing processing procedures. In 2021, Canada's economy recovered, and the country now had the largest employment vacancy rate on record, with approximately one million open positions.
In 2021, Canada aimed to welcome 401,000 new immigrants, mostly by converting those already living in the country to permanent residents. By February 14, the Canadian government will unveil its revised Immigration Levels Plan 2022-2024. The plan will include the amount of new immigrants that Canada hopes to welcome this year, as well as the categories into which they will fall.
According to the current plan, 411,000 new immigrants are expected to arrive this year, with nearly 60% of them falling into the lower economic class.
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