Monday, 2 May 2016

The Role Of Immigration To Canada

By Michelle West


It is not rare for people to move and reside within Canada. Through this process, people who settled there, become citizens of the country. Despite enormous changes in law concerning immigration, Canadian immigration terms are still undergoing evolution. Recent changes done to law are intended to streamline the process of Immigration to Canada.

In addition to that, policy changes are also intended to regulate and influence positively the persons intending to acquire Canadian citizenship. Through this process, professionals moving into the country are closely checked for betterment. Number of people ranging from 221,352 to 262,236 migrates to Canada every year owing to various reasons. Indeed, this is a big number and doing required regulation is necessary.

Normally, persons who move to this country can be categorized into four. The initial category is comprised of family class. These include persons who may intend to move there because they are related to certain individuals who are legal Canadian residents. The other group is comprised of people who are referred to as economic immigrants. They are made up of people doing business or even workers who are skilled. This forms a good proportion of people moving to this country.

Last categories are people who move there as refugees. These are persons who flew their own country owing to conditions such as war or other unappealing conditions. Indeed, Canadians do not shut doors to these kinds of people. In addition to that, there are those individuals who move into this country for various humanitarian reasons.

Thirty three ethnic groups make up the country. This is as per statistics carried out in 2001. Of these thirty three ethnic communities, ten of them are composed of about one million people. The other ethnic groups comprise smaller proportion of individuals. Country has been one of those that are treated to be highly receptive to individuals who move into it. In fact, it is one of top countries within western nations in allowing people migrate into it.

Canadian citizenship is normally offered by government through naturalization. According to reforms done in 2015, residency requirements were changed to four years from six years immediately on application. This crystal clearly shows that, period of residency have been reduced to 66% up from 75%. It is also recommended that one remain within country for a period of about 183 days in a year before he or she can take part in important public processes. In addition to that, persons who have ages of between 14 and 64 are expected to be wealthy of knowledge in matters related to Canada together with its official language.

According to statistics, immigration rate has been found to be about 8.7% for a period of about ten years. There are different factors that are thought of bringing this up. Canadian facilities may have played an important component in ensuring that all is well.

People also move into country for compassionate reasons. On the other hand, we also have business people moving into country with the intention of conducting businesses. These people do not only perform roles of their own benefit, but also for the benefit of government.




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