Tuesday, 10 March 2009

India Canada Immigration

Canada immigration from India has for all time been an important source of immigrants to Canada. India has been the main source country amongst others including China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. But immigrants to Canada from India have some differential characteristics that are different from immigrants from other major sources.

During the previous two decades; Canadian immigration from India has been increased steeply and India positioned within the top three source nations of immigrants to Canada and the Canadian province of British Columbia. India Canada immigration was evens the top source of immigration for many years during the 80s and 90s.

During the period of 1998-2008, Immigration to Canada from India was more than 10 per cent of all immigrant landings in Canada from all over the world. Although the majority of recent immigrants to the Canada were from Asia, but immigrants from India and Pakistan jointly demonstrate some unique social-demographic characteristics and customs when judge against to those who came from other Asian countries.

Most India Canadian immigration was done under the Family Class. The second major source of Canada immigration in India was done under the skilled worker category. Recent immigration figures show that during the previous five years, family immigration accounted for 51 percent and skilled worker immigration to Canada from India was almost 35 percent of the total of all landings from India.
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