Nigerians have become central figures in the most heavily reported Canadian migration story in recent years, as the largest cohort streaming through Canada’s most controversial entry-point: the ditch at Roxham Road, in small-town Quebec, that became a magnet for asylum seekers.
These new restrictions will still allow Nigerians and others to come to United States on tourism or student visas—unlike the full clampdown on people from Iran, Syria and other countries Trump targeted in 2017—but prohibit the foreign nationals from obtaining permanent U.S. status through green cards. It’s most serious ripple effect is occurring in Nigeria, heavily populated yet oil-rich, with a burgeoning professional class. “New U.S.
Canada’s Express Entry program for skilled workers, which the Harper government launched in 2015, has a clear and predictable points system that already helped make it easier for well-educated and experienced newcomers to immigrate here. The number of Nigerians who immigrated to Canada rose from about 4,000 in 2014 to 12,000 last year, numbers from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada show.
ACantuniari Best and brightest? Really Maclean's if these people were so bright why in all hell would there first thing when they get here is to break our law's.
Great! 👍
looks like more princes want to come to Canada
Oh goodie! More 'new Canadians' competing for jobs.
yeah sure.
Trudeau will send limos to the border for them
Vancouver and other Canadian tech centers should use social media to promote Express Entry to San Francisco Bay Area software engineers. Offer webinars explaining the process with multiple dates including November 4, 2020. VanEconomic BIVnews