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
