Federal Skilled Worker Class application intake cap and stream criteria established (MI11)

Policy effect

Introduced an overall cap of 25,500 new complete permanent residence applications for the Federal Skilled Worker Class without an offer of arranged employment, consisting of a 25,000 cap across designated eligible occupations (sub-capped at 1,000 per occupation) and a 500 cap under a PhD student/graduate stream.

Conditions and exceptions

There was no intake cap for applications with qualifying offers of arranged employment. Within the unarranged employment cap, a 1,000 application limit applied per eligible occupation, and 500 places were reserved for the PhD student/graduate stream.

Official source excerpt

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These Instructions will come into force on May 1, 2014, and apply to applications received by designated Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) offices on or after May 1, 2014. All applications received by designated CIC offices prior to May 1, 2014, shall continue to be considered for processing according to the Ministerial Instructions in place at the time of their receipt. Any categories for which Instructions are not specifically issued shall continue to be processed in the usual manner, as per processing priorities established by the Department. Economic Class Applications These Instructions are intended to manage the processing of new applications received for the Federal Skilled Worker Class, Federal Skilled Trades Class, and Canadian Experience Class in order to help address key labour market pressures faced by the Canadian economy while enabling CIC to prepare for the introduction of a new application management system. Federal Skilled Worker Class Cap on the number of applications to be processed A maximum of 25 500 new complete applications submitted for the Federal Skilled Worker Class, without an offer of arranged employment, will be considered for processing for the period of May 1, 2014, to April 30, 2015, unless otherwise indicated in a future Ministerial Instruction. The maximum of 25 500 new complete applications is allocated as follows: 1. A maximum of 25 000 applications will be considered for processing under an occupation list stream. Within the 25 000 cap, a maximum of 1 000 applications submitted for each eligible occupation set out below will be considered for processing; and 2. A maximum of 500 applications will be considered for processing under a PhD student/graduate stream. For further clarity, there is no limit on the number of new applications with offers of arranged employment that will be considered for processing.

Review method

Official-source atomic repair with two-pass Gemini 3.8 Flash review and a final cross-record publication gate

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