Express Entry - The New Reality For Economic Immigration To Canada

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) is expected to launch a new economic immigration system known as Express Entry (EE) on January 1, 2015.  Billed as a new system of managing applications under the existing economic permanent residency programs (namely Federal Skilled Worker Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Canadian Experience Class, and to a certain extent, Provincial Nominee Programs) EE promises to better meet the current needs of Canadian employers and faster processing for prospective skilled immigrants.   Through EE, CIC will select candidates that it considers most likely to succeed economically in Canada (by first ranking them under a series of factors) rather than those first in line.