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Labor shortage: State of the situation in Quebec

194,145 vacant positions to be filled in the province of Quebec alone in the second quarter of 2021. These are the revelations of a study by the Institut du Quebec. The labor shortage crisis is deepening and virtually affecting

The permanent residence portal

Since September 2021, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has launched (but still for tests) a new Permanent Residence Online Application Portal called: Permanent Residence Portal. Two offers are presented through the new portal:

  1. submitting an application for permanent

Update for the Quebec Regular Skilled Worker Program (RSWP)

Quebec wants to better align immigration with the recruitment of a skilled labor force in demand. A few weeks ago, on August 12 to be precise, the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) revealed an

Recruiting foreign workers: Your obligations as employer

There are many programs in Quebec as well as in the federal government that allow employers facing a labor shortage to recruit foreigners, such as the International Mobility Program (IMP) that we featured in one of our previous articles.

E-1 visa for the United States

The E-1 non-immigrant classification allows a national of a treaty country (a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation, or with which the United States maintains a qualifying international agreement, or which has

International Mobility Program: A fast way to hire foreign workers

Successfully hiring foreign workers while avoiding the hassle of a Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), this is the interest of the International Mobility Program (IMP); the opposite of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) in which the LMIA is

Updates to Business Class Programs

Quebec does not only admit skilled workers on its territory, the Canada-Quebec agreement allows the French-speaking province to also select foreigners from a very interesting category: business people.

 

Like the Programme de l’expérience québecoise (PEQ), the Quebec Regular

Process for hiring a temporary foreign worker

It is a fact that Quebec, like the rest of Canada, has been experiencing a major labor shortage for several years now. According to the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) nearly 40% of Canadian entrepreneurs do not see

Labor shortage: Quebec and Ottawa rush to the rescue of Quebec businesses

A light at the end of the tunnel is showing for businesses struggling with a severe labor shortage and with a heavy process to recruit temporary foreign workers. According to information made public by the Ministère de l’Immigration, de

Permanent immigration pilot programs in Quebec

Three pilot programs, each with a lifespan of five years, is one of the solutions put in place in 2021 by Quebec to respond to the labor shortage in sensitive sectors. Over the five-year term, each program will host