{"id":32214,"date":"2017-03-01T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/ontario-immigration-masters-phd-graduates-given-application-window-extension\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T21:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:34:01","slug":"immigration-de-lontario-diplomes-de-maitrise-et-de-doctorat-a-la-demande-de-lextension-de-la-fenetre-dapplication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/immigration-de-lontario-diplomes-de-maitrise-et-de-doctorat-a-la-demande-de-lextension-de-la-fenetre-dapplication\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Immigration: Masters and PhD Graduates Given Application Window Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario immigration website struggled to cope after a 10-fold increase in interest in its categories for masters\u2019 graduates and PhD graduates.\u00a0 Ontario manages its own immigration policies under the <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/ontario-immigration\/\">Ontario Immigration Nominee Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several would-be candidates were unable to complete their applications because of a number of frustrating error messages being generated by the system.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-29484 size-medium\" title=\"Ontario Immigration: Masters and PhD Graduates Given Application Window Extension\" src=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_1694013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ontario Immigration: Masters and PhD Graduates Given Application Window Extension\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_1694013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/immigration.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_1694013-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/immigration.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_1694013-249x187.jpg 249w, https:\/\/immigration.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/shutterstock_1694013.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/ontario-immigration\/\">Ontario immigration<\/a> officials have extended the window from seven to 14 days for applications to be completed after initial registration.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program officials say the website is now more stable, with staff on hand to tackle any further problems.<\/p>\n<p>The website buckled under the weight of more 117,000 visits in four days as candidates attempted to register their applications for popular immigrations streams for master\u2019s and PhD graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Registration limits were reached in two days for the master\u2019s program and three days for the PhD program. Both programs are expected to open again in the next three months.<\/p>\n<p>Once registered, applicants were initially given seven days to complete their application. This has now been extended to 14 days.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Status of Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Streams<\/h3>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Human Capital Priorities (Express Entry)<\/td>\n<td>Open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>French-Speaking Skilled Worker (Express Entry)<\/td>\n<td>Open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Employer Pre-Screen<\/td>\n<td>Paused (May 9, 2016)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>International Student (Masters Graduate)<\/td>\n<td>Paused (February 23, 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>International Student (PhD Graduate)<\/td>\n<td>Paused (February 24, 2017)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Investor Immigration (Corporate)<\/td>\n<td>Open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Investor Immigration (Entrepreneur)<\/td>\n<td>Open<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Interested employers:\u00a0<\/b>Kindly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/en\/employment-portal\/canada-employers.html\">contact us<\/a>\u00a0here to receive further information.<\/p>\n<p><b>Interested candidates:<\/b>\u00a0Find out whether you qualify to Canada by completing our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/en\/free-immigration-evaluation.html\">free on-line evaluation<\/a>. We will provide you with our evaluation within 1-2 business days.<\/p>\n<p>Read more news about Canada Immigration by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canada-immigration-news-articles-2017\/\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario immigration website struggled to cope after a 10-fold increase in interest in its categories for masters\u2019 graduates and PhD graduates.\u00a0 Ontario manages its own immigration policies under the Ontario Immigration Nominee Program. Several would-be candidates were unable to complete their applications because of a number of frustrating error messages being generated by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859,10558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-provincial-news-fr","category-4859","category-10558","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}