Foreign Worker Program and Family Reunification

refugee resettlement: Read more of CBC coverage on express entry Liberals shift immigration focus to family reunification, refugee resettlement Temporary foreign worker program review to be launched by Liberals "We must do more to attract students to this country as permanent residents," McCallum said following a meeting this week in Toronto with his provincial and territorial counterparts. "International students have been shortchanged by the express entry system," McCallum said. "They are the cream of the crop, in terms of potential future Canadians." Many international students have been calling on the Liberal government to give them extra points for post-secondary credentials obtained in Canada by making some changes to the system used to rank foreign nationals under express entry, according to CBC. Harpreet Singh, 24, is an international student who emigrated from India in 2011 after he finished high school. Express entry was launched by the previous Conservative government as a way to fill the country labour needs by fast-tracking permanent residency, in six months or less, for highly skilled foreign nationals. He told CBC News that he applied for express entry over a year ago and although he has obtained a two-year post-secondary degree from a college in Ontario, he still doesn't have enough points to obtain permanent residency. "If nothing works out, I'll have to go back," Singh said in a phone interview with CBC News. Court international students 'first' Mark Holthe, an immigration lawyer and partner at the law firm of Holthe Tilleman in Alberta, said that while the government has acknowledged that international students do make an important economic contribution to the country, a report tabled by the Department of Immigration last week fell short on details. "There was very little within the report to suggest anything will change for international students or many temporary foreign works who were hit the hardest" by the launch of express entry. Singh is currently pursuing a four-year university bachelor degree in business management. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.