A competitive race for the most awaited Canada Immigration FSW – federal skilled migrants program is in full swing. This year this scheme of skilled migration program was reopened for the overseas migrants with large scale revisions and reviews.

Canadian authorities has been committed to finding ways to make skills Immigration scheme more reliable and dependable. As per many experts  a dynamic and sensitive skills migration program can only address the changing requirements and aspirations of the domestic labor pool and also fulfill the needs of the local employers feeling the pinch of non availability of qualified and well trained expertise in critical and vital professions.

This year the government of Maple country reinitiated the completely restructured Canada FSW scheme and for the start only 24 occupations were extracted from the NOC 2011 and included in the current year program. An overall annual number sealing of 5000 requests was also imposed and along with that each of the professions code will be allowed to 300 allocations.

Till the latest applications the CIC Run FSW scheme seems to be heading towards an earlier closure. The numbers of applications that have been registered for each of trade code indicates that some of the code pools have already hit the annual number cap for the current edition of this scheme i.e. 2013-2014. The position number of requests received for each of trade code is as follows

0211   Engineering managers – 217
1112   Financial and investment analysts – 300 completed
2113   Geoscientists and oceanographers – 13
2131   Civil engineers – 132
2132   Mechanical engineers – 169
2134   Chemical engineers – 67
2143   Mining engineers – 3
2144   Geological engineers – 28
2145   Petroleum engineers – 1
2146   Aerospace engineers     – 8
2147   Computer engineers (except software engineers/designers) – 290
2154   Land surveyors – 5
2174   Computer programmers and interactive media developers – 300 closed
2243   Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics – 27
2263   Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety – 92
3141   Audiologists and speech-language pathologists – 4
3142   Physiotherapists – 143
3143   Occupational Therapists – 19
3211   Medical laboratory technologists – 98
3214   Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists – 7
3215   Medical Radiation Technologists -18
3216   Medical Sonographers – 12
3217   Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists – 8

As per CIC Canada Immigration Federal Skilled Worker Applications Timeline a total of 1961 requests have been received in this year. The people still thinking of immigrating to Maple country must start right now or they will be left out of fray for this year’s program.