A lot has been happening on the immigration front in Canada. In the meantime, while Canada has reduced the number of occupations from the list for Federal Skilled Workers Program, the Citizenship and Immigration Canada has also been talking about welcoming more economic immigrants to the country in the year 2010. In fact, the Canadian immigration department is looking to streamline the immigration plans for this year in order to bring more economic immigrants.

The country’s authorities are in favor of gaining more and more economic immigrants in order to make sure that the Canadian employers have the appropriate number of skills they require, while the country works towards recuperating from the recession. People are referred to as Economic Immigrants who apply under the categories of:

• Skilled Workers;
• Business Immigrants;
• Provincial Nominees;
• Canada Bonds Investors Permanent Residence visa; and
• Caregivers.

The Canadian immigration department every year designs a plan as to how many immigrants the country intends to gain under the immigration programs for economic workers, as well as humanitarian and family migrants. The usual cap for these immigrants ranges from 240,000 to 265,000, and the country has a track record of attaining the mid range of the expected immigrants each year. But, for 2010, immigration department expects to achieve the upper end of the range, with its new plan to welcome more economic immigrants.

The Citizenship and Immigration Canada hopes to increase the number of federal skilled workers and the provincial nominees in order to attain the goal, without hurting the original number of immigrants entering Canada under the family and humanitarian categories. The countries authorities think that economic immigrants are the need of the time, which is likely to grow in years to come!