Statistics from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada show a fairly steady increase in the number of people from the U.S. who were granted permanent residence in Canada each year since 2015. After a sharp decline during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the number of successful U.S. applicants reached 11,950 in 2021.
It's not just the relentless parade of deadly mass shootings, the draconian assault on abortion rights or even the prospect of a Donald Trump comeback that has Mackenzie Fresquez exploring a move to Canada.
But sending children to school in the U.S. no longer seems like a good idea, she said -- and there's no reason to think that's going to change. Since May, three mass shootings -- Buffalo, N.Y., Uvalde, Tex., and Highland Park, Ill. -- have killed 36 people in the space of two months, including 19 children in a Texas elementary school classroom.
So far, 2022 is shaping up to be another banner year: 3,235 applications were approved in the first quarter, the highest total for that three-month period in the last eight years. "There are other precedents based off the same precedent that they negated when they overturned Roe, one of them being interracial marriage,"she said.
"If I get an ectopic pregnancy in the Outer Banks in two years, is that going to be safe for me?" she wonders aloud. But that hasn't stopped the state's attorney general from vowing to investigate the doctor who performed it, and certain right-wing lawmakers and media outlets from initially doubting the reports were even true.While the federal government has a variety of different channels and programs designed to attract certain would-be migrants, immigration experts say it's important to understand that not everyone qualifies.
Applicants to the Federal Skilled Worker program must meet minimum standards for work experience, language skills and education level before being scored on a variety of factors.
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