Canada targets remote digital nomads with new tech talent strategy

Canadian Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has hailed a generational opportunity for economic growth digital nomads soon able to come here for up to six months and work remotely in technical roles.

“We’re actually creating a pool of talented people who can stay in Canada long-term,” Immigration Secretary Sean Fraser said.

“When I think about the 10, 20 and even 30 year horizon, rather than the next few months or even the next election cycle, I have no doubt that there will be more talent for tech entrepreneurs and professionals in this country. be a very good thing in half a generation.”

By being Strategy for technical talent To lure temporary workers in the tech sector in the United States north of the border to fill jobs begging for a lack of skilled workers, Canada is also reaching out to digital nomads around the world.

Digital nomads, defined as people who travel freely while working remotely using technology and the internet, are a hot commodity for technology companies as well as the tech departments of traditional companies.

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Canada is already a top destination for digital nomads.

Last year, UK-based Circle Loop, a provider of a cloud-based VoIP solution that makes phone systems accessible from desktops and mobile devices, published its Digital Nomad index and ranked Canada as the number one destination for digital nomads.

Building on Canada’s popularity with digital nomads, the immigration minister announced in June that Canada will launch a digital nomad strategy that will allow these highly skilled foreign workers to come to the country and work remotely.

“(That digital nomad strategy) allows people who have a foreign employer to come and live in Canada for up to six months and spend money in communities in this country and if they are offered a job while here , we will enable them to stay and work in Canada,” Fraser said at the Collision Conference in Toronto in June.

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That digital nomad strategy will reportedly not limit the number of people who can come, live and work in Canada.

Canada hopes to boost its technology sector through immigration.

“With Canada’s first-ever Immigration Tech Talent Strategy, we are targeting newcomers who can help anchor Canada as a global leader in a variety of emerging technologies.”

The Tech Talent Strategy, developed in collaboration with Canada’s technology, start-up and business communities, will lead to the creation of a open work permit stream specifically aimed at foreigners working in the United States on H-1B Special Occupation Visas, a visa widely used by Silicon Valley companies to bring in highly skilled immigrants.

Open Work Permit Stream will try to attract H-1B Visa holders in the US to Canada

That stream will also provide work And study permit options for employees’ family members.

This measure will remain in effect for one year, or until the Immigration Service of Canada has received 10,000 applications, with only main applicants and not their accompanying family members counting towards the application ceiling.

In the context of the Tech Talent Strategy, an Innovation Stream is being developed under the International Mobility Program (IMP) to attract even more highly talented foreigners to Canada.

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That Innovation Stream, which will start by the end of this year, should include:

• employer-specific work permits for up to five years for employees who are designated to work for a company that has been identified by the federal government in Canada as contributing to the country’s industrial innovation goals, and;
• open work permits for up to five years for highly skilled workers in selected high-demand occupations.

The Tech Talent Strategy also promises a return to the 14-day service standard for work permits under the Global Skills Strategy.

The federal government also plans to create a STEM-specific draw under a category-based selection to spend additional Invitations to apply (ITA) through the Fast entry system.

Since many immigrant entrepreneurs set up technology-related businesses, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) also applies the Starter visa (SUV) program with even more places for foreigners who want to emigrate to Canada under this program each year until 2025.

Due to the changes being made to the SUV, applicants will be able to apply for work permits for up to three years sometime later this year. They can currently only get work permits for one year. And the new open work permits for SUV applicants will also be available to every member of the entrepreneurial team.

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“We prioritize applications supported by venture capital, angel investor groups And business incubators and have committed capital along with applications supported by business incubators that are members of Canada’s Tech Network,” the IRCC notes on its website.

In Canada, the information and communications technology sector employed nearly 720,000 Canadians and accounted for more than 44 percent of all private research and development spending by 2021. The IT sector was responsible for more than 15 percent of Canada’s total economic growth between 2016 and 2021.