Sentences with phrase «for skilled immigrants»

«Canada's future prosperity will increasingly depend on our ability to remain a destination of choice for skilled immigrants,» notes Shari Austin, vice-president, Corporate Citizenship, RBC and executive director, RBC Foundation, «We need to support newcomers, both in terms of funding employment and in fulfilling their entrepreneurial ambitions.

This is one of the most significant barriers to employment for skilled immigrants.

A bunch of other Silicon Valley types are planning to launch a well - funded political - advocacy group to lobby for more visas for skilled immigrants.

Additionally, workers from other countries continue their influx: America remains the top destination for skilled immigrants.

FWD.us also fired back against proposals to limit programs like the H - 1B visa that allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers, calling any plan to «radically restrict pathways» for skilled immigrants to come to the U.S. «just wrong.»

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First Nations, Métis, Inuit, immigrants, apprentices, lower - skilled workers and official - language minority communities may be eligible for funding.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

The new judging criteria for the federal skilled worker program will award more points to younger immigrants and changes the way the government looks at work experience and education.

Winkler is a magnet for immigrants from Europe and Latin America who have good trade skills and apprenticeship certification, but their English is often inadequate.

The H1B highly skilled immigrant visa is limited to 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees — not much when you consider that U.S. universities pump out 1 science graduate for every five China does.

These companies hope to see an expanded H - 1B visa program, the creation of visas for immigrants who show proof of VC backing, and a clearer path to citizenship for high - skilled workers who are here illegally.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

Allow H - 1B holders to change jobs without losing their visa status and being forced to leave the country immediately — a condition that enforces lower salaries for H - 1B holders and encourages skilled immigrant arbitrage and tech «body shop» abuses.

The Ontario government, for example, should be fostering finance - related post-secondary programs and trying to attract immigrants with specialized financial skills, he says.

When moving to a foreign country, willingness to master new skills and a different culture comes with the territory for immigrants.

In the 16 months that Donald Trump has been president, the U.S.'s previously flawed immigration system has gone from bad to worse — particularly for small companies that rely on skilled immigrant labor.

While the federal immigration system has been criticized for putting emphasis on post-secondary education when judging candidates as economic immigrants, Manitoba has designed its nominee program to focus on skill shortages in its own labour market.

Trump has focused on an «America first» agenda when it comes to skilled labor and has proposed «extreme vetting» of immigrants from countries that the president says are known for terrorism.

The study also notes that high - skilled immigrants who enter the U.S. workforce sometimes indirectly open up new opportunities for U.S. workers.

Further to the issue of skills shortages, the government has announced the re-allocation of $ 4 million for a «labour market information portal» and another $ 7 million to «support the relocation of youth and immigrants to areas where job opportunities exist.»

It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.

They understand that any law relaxing rules for illegals has no hope of Republican support unless it is yoked to skilled - immigrant reform.

Harvard and Duke University professor Vivek Wadwha, himself an immigrant entrepreneur from India, warned in a Congressional hearing, «The U.S. is giving an unintentional gift to China and India by causing highly educated and skilled workers, frustrated by long waits for visas, to return home.»

The annual cap of 85,000 H - 1B visas for high - skilled workers applies only to immigrants who work at companies.

Although the specific criteria for choosing economic immigrants have changed over the years, the criteria are always based on desired skills and an ability to contribute to Canada's economy.

Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India.

We must do more than open the door to immigrants - we must make Canada the destination of choice for talented people with skills, energy and drive.

How can we complain that we do not have people with the skills to help our economy, while bringing in educated and qualified immigrants who are screened for their potential, who bring their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas, and yet have to do menial jobs because businesses won't hire them?

It seems, however, that Canada is missing the opportunity of harnessing the real skills of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, while waiting for our graduates to get up to speed.

Sajid Javid, the current secretary of state for Business, Innovation and Skills, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant who worked in the mills of the north before becoming a bus driver.

Who has realised that more skills for British workers would naturally lead to fewer immigrants because there wouldn't be vacancies to be filled?

Among other ideas, she highlighted the Coalition for Queens» Access Code program that aims to teach coding skills to women, minorities and immigrants.

The event takes place on the second Sunday of each October, to remember the immigrant general whose skill and bravery on the battlefield proved decisive for several important battles in the fight for our nation's independence.

«As the Council begins our Executive Budget hearings on May 6th, we will continue to strongly push for critical investments that will greatly expand employment opportunities for our young people by increasing the number of year round and summer youth jobs, advocating for vital legal services and workforce development skills to support our growing immigrant population and fighting to combat food insecurity in our City,» they said.

Community colleges are also equipped to provide English language training for immigrant and refugee students, so they are a good starting point for strong students with weak skills in spoken and written English.

In keeping with «the Administration's continuing commitment to attract and retain highly skilled immigrants,» says a DHS statement, one of the rule changes would allow H - 4 dependent spouses of H - 1B visa holders who are in process of applying for permanent residency to obtain work authorization.

During their testimony, Wadhwa and Arora each argued strongly for raising the percentage of foreign immigrants admitted to the United States on the basis of their STEM skills, at the expense of immigrants admitted via family reunification policies or the diversity lottery.

Wadhwa and Arora echoed that argument: Increasing the number of highly skilled foreign immigrants with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, they each said, would boost America's economy by helping to meet U.S. employers» workforce needs and stimulating the creation of new companies, and hence new jobs for Americans.

The Obama document goes on to note that «while highly skilled immigrants make strong contributions to our domestic technology industry, there are Americans who could be filling those positions given appropriate opportunities for training.»

«As the national debate on immigration has grown stronger, including immigrants» use of many social services, some have argued that the reason for the high child poverty rate has mostly been due to the large number of children in low - skilled, poor immigrant families,» Joo said.

Under the new Expression of Interest program, modeled on plans used in New Zealand and Australia, skilled would - be immigrants will apply for inclusion in a pool of approved employment candidates.

Though the authors ultimately believe Europe needs more migration, they feel that current constraints will make that difficult; for example, immigrants with inadequate language skills face enormous challenges in securing apprenticeships, and as a result, integrate too often into welfare, with limited incentives for returning and taking low paying jobs.

Quickly becoming noticed for her talent and skill, she also appeared in Fritz Baumann's German drama Anansi as an immigrant from Ghana.

Education Key to Meeting Challenges; Need for Focus on Pre-collegiate Skills and Immigrant Socialization The off - shoring of white - collar jobs, international terrorism, a worldwide AIDS epidemic, global warming, and mass immigration — globalization defines our era.

In her exploration of Vietnamese, Mexican, Korean, Jamaican, South Asian, and African immigrant communities, the author hops around the country, using the skills of the investigative reporter and her own remarkable capacity for social engagement, to enter the lives of these groups, and to enable readers to enter into their lives, too.

For many of those students, including recent Haitian immigrants in Miami, the primary roadblock to passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test has been a lack of skill in written English.

Immigrant and refugee students bring a wealth of knowledge, skills, and experiences to our classrooms — not to mention the perseverance it took for them to get here in the first place.

Education Key to Meeting Challenges; Need for Focus on Pre-collegiate Skills and Immigrant SocializationThe off - shoring of white - collar jobs, international terrorism, a worldwide AIDS epidemic, global warming, and mass immigration — globalization defines our era.

Other schools have found immigrant seniors with whom students can practice their language skills or conduct interviews for reports.

Teachers in new immigrant destinations — places that are seeing rapidly increasing numbers of immigrants — often find themselves dealing with a host of unexpected issues: immigrant students» unique socio - emotional needs, community conflict, a wider range of skills in English, lack of a common language for communication with parents, and more.