Since Brexit and Trump`s campaign, the Internet has been bickering about moving to Canada`s (move to Canada).
Well, who makes Canada a "professional backup party"? "move to Canada" has been a plan B for the last few years, and anyone who is unhappy will proudly announce that they are going to find it!
Remember when Trump became a Republican candidate in 2016, many Americans freaked out. Google keyword search "move to Canada" query volume jumped 1150% overnight, Canada Immigration Department website unexplained lying gun, because of the surge in traffic, the demand for direct downtime.
At that time, everyone saw this as a joke, unexpectedly, thousands of people from all over the world, really moved to Canada!
When Ayesha Chokhani grew up in Calcutta, India, and recently studied abroad for a master`s degree, she dropped offers from Cornell and Duke University in the United States to choose the colder climate of Toronto.
Her reasons were clear: Trump`s anti-immigrant rhetoric made her nervous, so she preferred to give up Fujiya.
In addition, there is one benefit to studying in Canada than in the United States: she can stay in Canada for three years after graduation and does not need a job opportunity to apply for a job permit.
The number of international students, the number of immigrants, Canada`s total population has greatly increased.
In the first eight months of 2018, there were five hundred and seventy thousand international students studying at Canadian universities, up 60 percent from three years ago.
Considering Canada`s national population of only 37 million, the proportion of foreign students in the total population can be said to be quite high.
In 2018, Canada`s "fast track" (Express Entry, or EE, sent a total of 89800 requests for immigration, the highest ever since the system was launched.
According to the latest Statistics Canada data, as of October 2018, Canada had a population of about 37.2 million, up nearly five hundred thousand people from the same period a year earlier, and its population growth rate reached a 30-year high.
British Columbia contributed the most, surging nearly two hundred thousand people this year compared with the same period last year.
Afraid of Trump, Americans lined up to run to Canada.
Over the past year or so, Trump government has been tightening immigration and studying abroad, and many students who want to study or work in the United States have lost a lot of their hearts.
In the meantime, "Canada welcomes you!" It`s not a joke. Government has been active in attracting talent from the United States and elsewhere.
In Canada, qualified foreign technicians can get a job permit in just two weeks, while in the United States, the process takes months.
Shobhit Khandelwal leave, 28, moved to Canada for a tech job in Redwood City, Calif., and started a start-up, the overseas Chinese newspaper reported in San Jose Mercury.
On the northern border of the United States, many Americans wish to flee the United States for Canada every day.
About 2550 Americans applied for shelter in Canada in 2017, according to data from Canada`s Immigration Department, according to CNN. The figure is more than six times higher than in 2016.
By the end of 2018, 1215 US citizen had sought Canadian refugee status.
The Canadian Embassy in Beijing has revealed that the number of Chinese small students applying for foreign students has quadrupled.
After Trump came to power, Chinese students felt even more miserable. The news even came out that the United States was considering cancelling Chinese student visas.
Earlier last year, White House hawks encouraged Trump to stop offering student visas to China`s citizen, but the proposal was shelved because of concerns about its economic and diplomatic implications, the Financial Times reported.
But it`s not just a false alarm. In fact, Trump government has tightened visas for Chinese students, according to the overseas Chinese newspaper. One of the most typical examples is that on June 11 last year, visas for some Chinese students in artificial intelligence, aviation, and high-tech manufacturing were limited to one year.
Well, then "move to Canada". As Canada`s government encourages international students to stay and work after graduation and apply for immigration, more and more Chinese parents are sending their children to Canada to study.
A survey of 371 students aged 17 to 19 from 21 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 major cities in China, according to an internal document of the Canadian Embassy in Beijing obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, found that in the past few years, a survey of 371 international students aged 17 to 19 from 21 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 major cities in China found that, in the past few years, The number of students aged 18 and 19 continued to decline, while the number of students aged 17 increased to more than 2/3.
90.3% of these Chinese students seem to really want to study in Canada. Most of them apply for a postponement to continue higher education after completing high school.
They chose to study in Ontario (67%), followed by British Columbia (21%).
According to a Canadian embassy in Beijing, previously disclosed in the Immigration Compendium, between 2009 and 2015, the number of small foreign students from China (high school and below) increased from 3012 to more than 12000. The share of Canadian Chinese students rose from 18% to 37%.
The number of temporary residents working in Canada became permanent residents, up from 30400 in 2002 to 86600 in 2017, according to an internal immigration department document released in the Immigration Compendium. This "transition" now accounts for 60% of all economic migrants, up from 14% in 2002.
Indeed, in the face of declining fertility and an ageing population, Canada has always seen "immigration" as a "big tool" for the Canadian economy and has spared no effort to attract new immigrants.
Just two months ago (Oct. 31, 2018), Canadian immigrant minister Watson (Ahmed Hussen) announced an immigration quota plan for the next three years: to absorb more than a million immigrants over the next three years! The immigration quota for the next three years is three hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and ninety nine in 2019, three hundred and forty one thousand in 2020 and three hundred and fifty thousand in 2020.
As a result, Canada plans to absorb a total of one million twenty one thousand eight hundred immigrants over the next three years. By 2020, Canada will receive 1% new immigrants a year!
It seems that Canada is really opening its doors, "Welcome to Canada!" It`s not an empty word!
