March 8, 2021 marked the first round of IEC invitations. Information up to date as of March 15 is available here.

For example, only 32 candidates for the Working Holiday Program (WHP) France received an invitation. We remind you that starting this year, all candidates must demonstrate they have already obtained a job offer in Canada, prior to receiving the invitation (they hold a valid offer).

Regarding the participants in the Young Professionals Program (France), 390 of them received an invitation on the same date.

For Belgium, we note that only 2 participants in the Working Holiday Program received an invitation to apply for a work permit. And there are still 749 places available.

We remind you that this program remains an affordable tool for recruiting your talents abroad, both financial and procedural. If we remember that the list of eligible professions for the simplified application process under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program has just been modified and that certain professions no longer appear on it, going through the IEC can be extremely useful.