飞出国:加拿大时间2019年1月24日,加拿大移民局推出新的北部偏远地区移民试点项目Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot,旨在将经济移民的优势推广到加拿大各地较小的社区去。目前新政处于寻找有兴趣参加这一试点项目社区阶段,关于如何申请成为永居居民的信息将在2019年晚些时候公布。
大致时间轴为2019年春季,加拿大移民局向社区开放申请并选出可接收新移民的社区,夏季会开始接收移民申请人的申请表格,并筛选申请人。
加拿大政府将与各地社区合作,致力于:
- 利用移民来帮助满足当地劳动力市场需求并支持区域经济发展;
- 为不同技能层次的外籍技术人员移民加拿大偏远地区开辟一条新路径;
- 创造良好的环境、鼓励和帮助新移民留在他们的新社区。
有意参与试点项目的社区必须与当地的经济发展组织合作,由该经济发展组织提交申请,申请需得到市政领导及当地移民服务组织的支持,并能提供支持信。
想成为试点社区,必须符合以下标准:
- 社区人口在50000或以下,距离大城市中心至少75公里;或人口多达20万人,但远离其他大城市;
- 社区位于阿尔伯塔省、BC省、曼省、西北地区、努纳武特、安省、萨省及育空省;
- 社区有就业机会;
- 社区有经济发展计划;
- 社区有当地的经济发展组织能够管理该社区的试点项目;
- 社区能够通过以下举措安置新移民:
- 与本地和地区移民服务机构建立或发展关系;
- 通过培训或网络联系,建立或发展新移民与原住民的联系;
- 提供关键服务,如教育、住房、交通、医疗保障。
同时,报告中还指出鼓励魁北克以外的法语区参与到该试点项目当中,以激发这些地区的经济实力。
Eligibility
If you want to participate, your community must meet certain criteria. The pilot will launch in a small number of communities. This means your community may not be selected, even if it meets all the criteria.
To be eligible to participate, your community must:
- have a population of:
- o 50,000 people or less and be located at least 75 km from the core of a Census Metropolitan Area or
- up to 200,000 people and be considered remote from other larger cities (using Statistics Canada’s index of remoteness)
- be in:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
- have job opportunities
- have an economic development plan
- have a local economic development organization that can manage the pilot for your community
- be able to settle new immigrants in the community by having or developing:
- relationships with local or regional immigrant-serving organizations
- opportunities to connect newcomers with established members of the community, such as through mentoring or networking
- access to key services like
- education
- housing
- transportation
- health care
You must also have the support, shown through letters of support, of:
- the municipality (local leaders) and
- a local or regional immigrant-serving organization
We encourage communities with French-speaking populations to apply and identify themselves in their application.
这是2019年继BC省低人口社区10万加币投资移民项目后,加拿大政府又一项旨在将移民吸引至偏远地区的举措,只是这一次是针对技术移民群体,获将为加拿大技术移民打开一条新路,让我们拭目以待!