There are approximately 400,000 H-1B visa holders in the US, which is why the government is setting a cap on the new stream of people who could hold those visas at 10,000.
Canada has processed an all-time high of 4.8 million visa applications in 2022, nearly twice the 2.5 million processed during the same period last year
The move will allow more than 200,000 workers who have family members in Canada, or that will be coming to the country, to continue to be with their loved ones
The minister said Canada will invest $74.6 million over five years to speed up the visa application processing capacity in New Delhi and Chandigarh
Out of the 405,303 new permanent residents in Canada, which were granted in 2021, at least one-third of the residents were Indians.
Thanks to unprecedented rise in applications processing time has increased from four weeks earlier to 12 weeks now
Canada's Student Direct Stream programme is available to students applying for a study permit from China, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines