{"id":123496,"date":"2023-07-20T08:51:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canada-work-permit-program-for-tech-workers-with-u-s-h-1b-visas-fills-10000-slots-in-one-day\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:51:29","slug":"canada-work-permit-program-for-tech-workers-with-u-s-h-1b-visas-fills-10000-slots-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-work-permit-program-for-tech-workers-with-u-s-h-1b-visas-fills-10000-slots-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Work Permit Program for Tech Workers with U.S. H-1B Visas Fills 10,000 Slots in One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s Tech Talent Strategy<\/a> aimed at luring H-1B visa holders from the U.S. with work permits<\/a> exhausted its allocation capacity of 10,000 applicants one day after opening.<\/p>\n

The strategy is aimed at attracting temporary highly skilled tech workers<\/a> living in the U.S.<\/p>\n

This comes less than a month after Immigration Minister Sean Fraser first announced the creation of the stream.<\/p>\n

It provides H-1B specialty occupation visa holders living in the U.S. the option to apply for an open Canadian work permit for themselves, and study<\/a> or work permits<\/a> for their accompanying family members (including spouse, common-law partner, and dependent children).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The measure was to remain in effect for a maximum of one year, or until Canada received 10,000 applications from principal applicants \u2013 whichever came first, as per the Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The latter condition was met this Monday, following the launch that had been scheduled for Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

H-1B visas allow foreign workers in specialized occupations \u2013 including some in tech \u2013 to temporarily work in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While these skilled professionals were in high demand during the pandemic, they are since being laid off in droves from leading tech firms such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This puts their immigration status in jeopardy and creates a highly skilled job-seeker surplus within the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Immigration Minister Fraser saw this as an \u201copportunity\u201d for Canada to fill its labor shortage in STEM fields, which eventually led him to announce the Tech Talent Strategy at Collision 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The aim of this program is to help Canadian businesses thrive in a competitive landscape and to boost their hiring needs by retaining foreign talent<\/a> in the North American labour market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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