Economic immigration and family immigration are the two major pathways to permanent residency in Canada.
Economic immigration is all about programs which use age, education, language proficiency and work experience to predict a foreign national’s ability to add-value to the Canadian economy by finding work and paying taxes.
There are nearly 100 economic immigration programs in Canada. Examples on the federal-level include Express Entry, the Atlantic Immigration Program and the Start-Up Business Visa Class. Interestingly the individual provinces of Canada can also create their own economic immigration programs which are known as Provincial Nomination Programs or PNPs.
Family immigration on the other hand is about reconnecting Canadian citizens and permanent residents to close family members; typically spouses, common-law spouses, biological and adopted children as well as parents and grandparents.
