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 mula sa Citizenship at Immigration Canada.

These newcomers included 252,124 permanent residents — tungkol sa 30,000 more permanent residents than the government typically admitted annually in the 1990s — at 178,640 pansamantalang banyagang manggagawa at 85,131 foreign students, the largest number of foreign students ever admitted to Canada in a single year.

Ayon sa Pagka-mamamayan at mga bagong paglabas Immigration Canada, 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 Karanasan Klase ng Canada or as a Sanay Worker o Professional.

Ang Karanasan Klase ng Canada (CEC) is designed to streamline the immigration process for people who are already working in Canada. Karaniwan, 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, o
• a foreign graduate from a Canadian post-secondary institution with at least one year of full-time (or equivalent) skilled work experience in Canada

Sa learn more about relocating to Canada, tingnan ang aming Pagsisimula patnubayan, o kumuha ng maraming higit pang mga detalye mula sa Citizenship at Immigration Canada.

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