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Canada's Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced a new permanent residency pathway that targets workers already in the country under five specific immigration programmes, giving provinces and territories a direct role in the process.
IRCC published the announcement on its official website and on X, outlining which programmes qualify and how the new mechanism will work.
Under the new arrangement, provincial and territorial governments will be able to identify workers within their jurisdictions who have already submitted permanent residence applications through these federal programmes and are awaiting a decision.
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Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab outlined the government's rationale for the initiative.
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The five programmes covered under the new pathway are the Atlantic Immigration Program, the Start-up Visa Program, the Self-Employed Persons Program, the Agri-Food Pilot, and home care worker programmes.
