Canada Helps Foreign Credential Holders

Are you Internationally trained? Need information to get your foreign credential assessed and recognized more quickly? The Government of Canada’s new Foreign Credential Referral Office (FCRO) helps internationally trained find the information and resources they need to have their credentials assessed and recognized.

The services would be a great help for internationally trained individuals looking forward to work in Canada. The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, while inaugurating the services said, “Internationally-trained individuals can now walk into Service Canada centres across the country and receive in-person help on how to get their credentials assessed and recognized. Newcomers want to contribute to our country by working in the fields for which they’ve been trained, and we want to help them do that.” In addition to the in-person services, the FCRO’s approach also includes:

Recently 129,100 Indians made Canada their home

Every fifth Canadian today was born abroad. The Toronto region scores even higher as every second person here is foreign-born and the highest percentage of these are Indians, followed by Chinese and Italians. According to the latest census (2001-2006) figures released Tuesday, foreign born people constitute about 19.8 percent of the Canadian population of 31,241,030. Only Australia has more foreign born residents (22.2 percent) than Canada today. Of the about 1.1 million who moved to Canada during this five-year period, Indians constituted 11.6 percent, Chinese 14 percent, Filipinos seven percent and Pakistanis 5.2 per cent. And they came from 224 countries.