Where are the best Express Entry candidates coming from? Indian citizens lead the pack with 228 candidates in top 775

WONDERING what countries are supplying the best Express Entry candidates?

Lexbase, Canada’s leading immigration publication under well-known lawyer Richard Kurland, obtained the numbers under Access to Information and they show that Indian citizens lead the pack with 228 candidates out of the top 775.

Citizens of the Philippines come next with 122 candidates followed by 46 Pakistani citizens.

Kurland points out that this internal Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) datarun produced January 22, 2015, is a very early snapshot, but if the trend holds, it means Canada’s source countries for skilled worker migration in future are effectively India, and the Philippines, followed by Pakistan.

The first chart shows the top 775 candidates in the pool by country of residence.

The second chart shows the top 775 candidates in the pool by citizenship.

EE pool top 775 active candidates in the pool by country of citizenship

Number of andidates / Country of citizenship

228 – India

122 – Philippines

46 – Pakistan

34 – Ireland

29 – Nigeria

29 – China, People’s Republic

21 – Iran

19 – British citizen

18 – Egypt

14 – Korea

12 – Bangladesh

11 – Australia

9 – Stateless

8 – Brazil

8 – Germany

7 – Spain

7 – Jamaica

7 – Russia

6 – USA

6 – Hong Kong

6 – Israel

5 – Mexico

5 – France

5 – Poland

4 – Sri Lanka

4 – Colombia

4 – Italy

4 – Lebanon

4 – Lithuania

4 – Turkey

3 (from each country) – Japan, Cameroon, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Unspecified

2 (from each country) – El Salvador, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Fiji, Greece, Hungary, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Peru, Romania, Singapore

1 (from each country) – Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Congo, Croatia, Dominica, Estonia, Grenada, Guatemala, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Libya, Moldova, Palestinian Authority Gaza / West Bank, Serbia, Sudan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

EE pool top 775 candidates by country of residence

Number of candidates / Country of residence

346 – Canada

104 – India

35 – United Arab Emirates

34 – Philippines

25 – Nigeria

22 – Saudi Arabia

20 – Iran

18 – Pakistan

13 – China, People’s Republic

11 – Singapore

10 – Bangladesh

10 – Qatar

7 (from each country) – Brazil, England, Hong Kong, Egypt, Kuwait

6 – Israel

6 – USA

4 – Australia

3 (from each country) – Korea, Bahrain, Ireland, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Oman, Spain, Switzerland

2 (from each country) – Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Lithuania, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, Antigua and Barbuda

1 (from each country) – Armenia, Aruba, Bostwana, Channel Islands, Chile, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Grenada, Guatemala, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Morocco, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Tanzania

Comment:

"   Express  Entry ... A confirmed farce

Having an application picked during an initial "draw" does not mean that the applicant has succeeded in becoming an immigrant. it simply means that the applicant can now go through the torture of finding a Canadian employer prepared to go brought the hell of the LMIA process .

Thus, the first 775 winners are in for a long , tough ride. Most will fall by the way side. Some will find a corrupt employer prepared to take money for a phoney LMIA application. A few will go to the next stage.

Portuguese  , Italians and Poles have seen through the ExpressEntry scam.

Out of  the 775 applicants , there were only one each in Italy , Portugal and Poland . From inside Canada There were another 5 Poles , 4 Italians and 3 Portugese .

 While Ottawa goes through the farce of pretending that  it has scoured the country and found 12 Portugese , Italians and Poles , it somehow stumbled  over the other 150,000 successfully established Southern and Eastern Europeans .

The good news is that Nigerians can now join Indians in determining Canada's future.

If you like Lagos and Calcutta , you'll love Ottawa."

Richard Boraks, May 18,2015