If you’re new to Canada or if you’re thinking of settling here, you’re not alone.

More than half a million newcomers — permanent residents, temporary workers, and foreign students — came to live in Canada in 2009.

That’s according to recently-released statistics от Гражданства и иммиграции Канады.

These newcomers included 252,124 permanent residents — об этом 30,000 more permanent residents than the government typically admitted annually in the 1990s — а также 178,640 временные иностранные работники и 85,131 foreign students, the largest number of foreign students ever admitted to Canada in a single year.

Согласно Гражданства и иммиграции Канады пресс-релиз, the government expects that many foreign students and temporary workers (admitted to the country on a work permit) will eventually settle permanently in Canada, applying for permanent resident status either under the Канадский опыт Класс or as a Квалифицированный рабочий или Professional.

Канадский опыт Класс (ЦИК) is designed to streamline the immigration process for people who are already working in Canada. В общем, you can apply under the CEC provisions if you are:

• a temporary foreign worker with at least two years of full-time (or equivalent) skilled work experience in Canada, или
• a foreign graduate from a Canadian post-secondary institution with at least one year of full-time (or equivalent) skilled work experience in Canada

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