{"id":599765,"date":"2026-02-18T23:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599765\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:54:30","slug":"canada-opens-new-residency-paths-for-military-recruits-other-workers-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599765\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada opens new residency paths for military recruits, other workers &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is launching new <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/express-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Express Entry<\/a> immigration streams for <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/permanent-residence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">permanent residents<\/a> to meet the future needs of the economy, including categories for research, transportation and military recruitment, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Immigration<\/a> Minister Lena Diab said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These will be in addition to the specialized streams already in place for health care and social services workers, such as nurse practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists and chiropractors, and for trades, such as carpenters, plumbers and machinists.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Ottawa announced a specialized Express Entry stream for foreign-trained doctors with Canadian work experience.<\/p>\n<p>The first round for applications under that category will begin this week, Diab said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada has opportunity to attract new talent after Trump raises US H-1B visas to $100K: Carney'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAT_CARNEY_SITE_THUMB_270925.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:35<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada has opportunity to attract new talent after Trump raises US H-1B visas to $100K: Carney\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWhich categories will be approved faster?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The first category that\u2019s being added is for researchers and senior managers with Canadian work experience to help drive research in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re supporting the broader federal efforts to drive innovation and growth, including a $1.7 billion initiative announced in December by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to attract world-leading researchers to Canada,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11672379\/matt-jeneroux-crosses-floor-liberals\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Matt-Jeneroux.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tEx-Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux crosses floor to join Carney\u2019s Liberals\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11671058\/rhode-island-pawtucket-shooting-ice-rink-samaritan\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5d4582e0148aad689895798cbef13423df92c79b3ee73b8ed43ad7ef699c3891.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRhode Island shooter killed ex-wife, son before bystanders intervened: police\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is also adding a second category for transportation workers, to help plug <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/o1\/en\/plus\/7190-fewer-job-vacancies-truckers-demand-remains-amid-supply-chain-challenges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">labour shortages in Canada\u2019s transportation sector<\/a>, she added. This will include applications for people who are trained pilots, aircraft mechanics and inspectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve identified these sectors as areas in critical need. Strengthening those helps us move goods across the country and to new markets supporting trade, supply chains and economic resilience,\u201d Diab said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa is also launching a third stream of entry \u2014 skilled military recruits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are creating a new category for skilled military recruits to attract highly skilled foreign military applicants. Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed Forces, including doctors, nurses, pilots can be invited to apply for permanent residence,\u201d Diab said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that this category is being introduced to complement the defence industrial strategy, announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Carney released his new Buy Canadian plan for supplying the military and growing Canada\u2019s domestic defence industry on Tuesday, saying Canada can never be \u201chostage\u201d to the decisions of others when it comes to security.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The $6.6-billion plan promises to prioritize building military equipment at home, hike the share of defence contracts awarded to Canadian firms and add up to 125,000 new jobs over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada is launching new Express Entry immigration streams for permanent residents to meet the future needs of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,55224,409,50,257223,80],"class_list":["post-599765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-canada","tag-express-entry","tag-immigration","tag-news","tag-permanent-residence","tag-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116094335265987477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}