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Article: The Immigration of Foreign Information Technology Workers.(immigration regulation in Canada)(Brief Article)
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- Canadian Manager
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration announced late last year that the expedited processing of information technology (IT) workers entering Canada to work, will remain in place until the redesign of the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme has been completed. This will be important to you if your company employs IT workers and wants to hire someone from outside Canada. Expedited processing of IT worker applications has been in place since the Software Development Worker Pilot Project was introduced in May 1997.
The Software Development Worker Pilot Project was developed in response to an acute shortage of workers in the Canadian software sector. It was felt ...