Express Entry Report Gives Important Details on Occupations and Candidates Selected for Immigration to Canada

1. Express Entry Report Gives Important Details on Occupations and Candidates Selected for Immigration to Canada 

2. In a comprehensive and informative report, Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees Canada (IRCC, formerly known as CIC) has provided valuable insights on the first 12 months of the Express Entry selection system for immigration to Canada, which came into operation on January 1, 2015.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. 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.