An all-time high number of undocumented Indians are crossing over from Canada to the United States, The Indian Express reported. The report added that the unusual spike has placed Canada's visa screening process under the lens. This is further complicated by the concerns over Canada-bound Indian passengers seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while in transit.

<h2>Undocumented Indians' bid to enter the US: What is the situation?</h2>

According to the latest US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, an all-time high of 5,152 undocumented Indians entered the US from Canada on foot this June alone.&nbsp;

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The monthly number of Indians entering the US from Canada has surpassed those crossing over from the Mexico route since December 2023.

At about 9,000 km in length, the US-Canada border is the longest open border in the world. The number of undocumented Indians using this route has surpassed the number of such entries from the more conventional path of using the Mexico border route.

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The Indian Express report cited that data to point out that the number of Indians caught at the US-Canada border between January and June 2024 has increased by 47 per cent — there were 3,733 incidents — compared to 2,548 last year for the same period.&nbsp;

The rise in unauthorised Indian migration has made Indians the third-largest group of undocumented immigrants in the US.&nbsp;

According to a Pew Research report, there were about 725,000 undocumented Indian nationals in the United States in 2021.

<h2>Why Canada?</h2>

An immigration consultant registered with the Canada Regulatory Council told Indian Express, "Canada offers the ideal combination of an accessible visa and a soft border. It’s a much safer option than taking one of those ‘dunki’ (illegal) routes via West Asia, Africa or the Caribbean, to join the crowd waiting to cross the heavily guarded Mexico border."

(With inputs from agencies)

An all-time high number of undocumented Indians are crossing over from Canada to the United States, The Indian Express reported. The report added that the unusual spike has placed Canada's visa screening process under the lens.

An all-time high number of undocumented Indians are crossing over from Canada to the United States, The Indian Express reported. The report added that the unusual spike has placed Canada's visa screening process under the lens. This is further complicated by the concerns over Canada-bound Indian passengers seeking asylum in the United Kingdom while in transit. Undocumented Indians' bid to enter the US: What is the situation? According to the latest US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data, an all-time high of 5,152 undocumented Indians entered the US from Canada on foot this June alone. Also read | Indians protest against changes in Canada's immigration policy The monthly number of Indians entering the US from Canada has surpassed those crossing over from the Mexico route since December 2023. At about 9,000 km in length, the US-Canada border is the longest open border in the world. The number of undocumented Indians using this route has surpassed the number of such entries from the more conventional path of using the Mexico border route. Also watch | Gravitas: Controversial U.S. Immigration policy Title 42 ends × The Indian Express report cited that data to point out that the number of Indians caught at the US-Canada border between January and June 2024 has increased by 47 per cent — there were 3,733 incidents — compared to 2,548 last year for the same period. The rise in unauthorised Indian migration has made Indians the third-largest group of undocumented immigrants in the US. According to a Pew Research report, there were about 725,000 undocumented Indian nationals in the United States in 2021. Why Canada? An immigration consultant registered with the Canada Regulatory Council told Indian Express, "Canada offers the ideal combination of an accessible visa and a soft border. It’s a much safer option than taking one of those ‘dunki’ (illegal) routes via West Asia, Africa or the Caribbean, to join the crowd waiting to cross the heavily guarded Mexico border." (With inputs from agencies)

Record number of undocumented Indians enter US through Canada route: Report

Canada's population reached a record high of 40.77 million in 2023. This surge, according to Statistics Canada, was mainly driven by temporary immigration.&nbsp;

As per recently published data, in 2023, the country added 1.27 million people to its population — up 3.2 per cent from the previous year. This just so happens to be Canada's highest growth since 1957.

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"In 2023, the vast majority (97.6 per cent) of Canada's population growth came from international migration (both permanent and temporary immigration) and the remaining portion (2.4 per cent) came from natural increase," said Statscan in a statement.

"This was the second straight year that temporary immigration drove population growth and the third year in a row with a net increase of NPRs (non-permanent residents)," it added, as reported by Reuters.

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<h2>How many of these are Indians?</h2>

Indian migrants account for a huge part of Canada's immigrant population.

As per the Canada Visa website, "Over 120,000 Indians settle in Canada as permanent residents every year and Canada is now home to one of the largest Indian diasporas in the world."&nbsp;

Between 2013 and&nbsp;2022, the number of Indians immigrating to Canada, as per reports, more than tripled.

The number of Indians availing permanent citizenship in Canada in 2013 was 32,828. In 2022, this number increased by 260 per cent to 118,095.

In 2023, partly due to tensions between India and Canada, the number of study permits fell by 41 per cent.

According to data from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the number of applications for December fell from 16,796 in 2022 to 6,329 in 2023.

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Despite that, Indians continue to be the largest group of immigrants, making up for a significant portion of the estimated 2,661,784 non-permanent residents living in Canada as of January 1, 2024.

As per the latest Statscan data, 2,332,886 of these were permit holders and their family members, and 328,898 were asylum claimants with or without work or study permits.

<h2>The effects of immigrant influx</h2>

As per Reuters, the influx of immigrants has been linked to a housing shortage, which has pushed house prices, bringing affordability, to a new low.

This, as per the report, has also hurt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's approval ratings.&nbsp;

Furthermore, according to economists and the Bank of Canada, population growth has impacted Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and productivity levels.

(With inputs from agencies)

Canada's population reached a record high of 40.77 million in 2023. This surge, according to Statistics Canada, was mainly driven by temporary immigration. As per recently published data, in 2023, the country added 1.

Canada's population reached a record high of 40.77 million in 2023. This surge, according to Statistics Canada, was mainly driven by temporary immigration. As per recently published data, in 2023, the country added 1.27 million people to its population — up 3.2 per cent from the previous year. This just so happens to be Canada's highest growth since 1957. Also read | Canada clocks its fastest population growth in 66 years, climbed to record high of 40mn in 2023 "In 2023, the vast majority (97.6 per cent) of Canada's population growth came from international migration (both permanent and temporary immigration) and the remaining portion (2.4 per cent) came from natural increase," said Statscan in a statement. "This was the second straight year that temporary immigration drove population growth and the third year in a row with a net increase of NPRs (non-permanent residents)," it added, as reported by Reuters. × How many of these are Indians? Indian migrants account for a huge part of Canada's immigrant population. As per the Canada Visa website, "Over 120,000 Indians settle in Canada as permanent residents every year and Canada is now home to one of the largest Indian diasporas in the world." Between 2013 and 2022, the number of Indians immigrating to Canada, as per reports, more than tripled. The number of Indians availing permanent citizenship in Canada in 2013 was 32,828. In 2022, this number increased by 260 per cent to 118,095. In 2023, partly due to tensions between India and Canada, the number of study permits fell by 41 per cent. According to data from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the number of applications for December fell from 16,796 in 2022 to 6,329 in 2023. Also read | Interpol warns Southeast Asia trafficking is expanding into a global crime network Despite that, Indians continue to be the largest group of immigrants, making up for a significant portion of the estimated 2,661,784 non-permanent residents living in Canada as of January 1, 2024. As per the latest Statscan data, 2,332,886 of these were permit holders and their family members, and 328,898 were asylum claimants with or without work or study permits. The effects of immigrant influx As per Reuters, the influx of immigrants has been linked to a housing shortage, which has pushed house prices, bringing affordability, to a new low. This, as per the report, has also hurt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's approval ratings. Furthermore, according to economists and the Bank of Canada, population growth has impacted Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and productivity levels. (With inputs from agencies)

Canada's population hits record high, driven by immigration surge. How many of these are Indian migrants?

Canada&rsquo;s second-most internationally beloved politician with the initials JT was in&nbsp;New Delhi Wednesday to speak to business leaders and politicians&nbsp;&ldquo;to let the world know Toronto is open for business&rdquo;.&nbsp;

The twenty-odd minute speech was dubbed, &ldquo;Opportunities in Toronto in the evolving global landscape&rdquo;.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Tory insisted he was here as a salesman for Toronto, the first mayor from the city to visit India in 20 years. Premier Kathleen Wynne visited in February 2016, and the chatter before Tory began speaking anticipated a visit to India from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (the other &quot;JT&quot;) later this year or in early 2018.

Mayor Tory&rsquo;s sell should be easy. Whenever I tell Indians here I myself come from Toronto,&nbsp;they instantly become visibly excited and tell me of their four thousand relatives who live there.

Tory began with facts: Canada is a safe and stable parliamentary democracy&nbsp;with 1.2 million people of Indian-origin living there, good for three per cent of the country&#39;s&nbsp;overall population. One out of every two people in Toronto was&nbsp;born outside&nbsp;Canada.&nbsp;

Tory emphasised that Toronto&nbsp;wants Indian students to enroll in&nbsp;its high-quality&nbsp;schools, and was glad to say&nbsp;that some graduates would head back to India while some would remain in Canada, to&nbsp;both country&#39;s benefit.

The Toronto film industry got special mention, as cinema could be the heart of the cultural link between the two countries. For decades, many American movies&nbsp;were&nbsp;actually filmed in Toronto (it can easily be dressed up to look like&nbsp;American cities, and Canadian taxes greatly lower production costs). It&#39;s easy to see why Toronto wants to capture&nbsp;the growth potential of linking up with Bollywood.&nbsp;

Toronto has historically been pitched as a centre of&nbsp;commerce and&nbsp;a haven for multiculturalism,&nbsp;but the cliche for the latter has&nbsp;received an&nbsp;update. Even conservatives like Tory pitching Toronto-multiculturalism&nbsp;are too sophisticated&nbsp;now to say&nbsp;racism there does not exist, so they add a caveat: We&rsquo;ve made progress, but we must do more. This was a major theme. While this contains some of the passive smugness the world may not know to detest Canadians for, the cliches Tory invoked is too true to dismiss, especially at a time when the United States and many European countries are closing their borders.&nbsp;

Trump loomed large, but Tory artistically&nbsp;avoiding saying&nbsp;his name aloud. He repeatedly said he was unwilling to comment on the situation elsewhere, including in Europe, and said that Toronto is simply sharing&nbsp;its positive story that has led to its success.&nbsp;

Tory claimed he is &ldquo;furiously resisting polarisation&rdquo;, and that he has categorically denounced racist incidents when they do indeed come up in Toronto, for which he said he is roundly commended by citizens people.&nbsp;

With him was the newly-elected Toronto city councillor Neethan Shan, the city&rsquo;s first Tamil councillor. Tory referred to Shan as &ldquo;a breakthrough&rdquo;, and said it was important for visible minorities to see themselves in the institutions that impact their lives, in order to instil trust.

Tory spoke about bus shelter ads featuring a white and black person with a caption prompting the viewer--&nbsp;who&nbsp;would you hire? He cited this as evidence that the government is deliberately trying to provoke people into thinking about&nbsp;barriers different people face.&nbsp;

While this comes from a man who during the 2014 mayoral race <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B350l2WVzik" target="_blank">claimed </a>white privilege does not exist, whether the mayor himself has genuinely evolved on this file or whether he&rsquo;s speaking for the city broadly, the thrust of his point about the city holds. He was selling Toronto, not him.

Tory framed inclusivity as both something that arises naturally in Torontonians because it&rsquo;s the decent thing to do, rather than something to merely say out of&nbsp;rote political correctness, but also framed inclusivity as being a powerful case to draw&nbsp;business.&nbsp;

He pointed to a Toronto-based piracy-detection company that chose to locate there because, surely among other reasons, it was the easiest place to find people who speak so many languages from around the world.

Anecdotally, so many&nbsp;Indians have told me they would love&nbsp;to&nbsp;visit if not move to Canada that Tory&rsquo;s speech to win them over seems hardly necessary, until you remember he was talking less to individual Indians than to Indian business.

Tory started his trade mission&nbsp;to India at the Delhi-based headquarters for the digital payment company&nbsp;Paytm,&nbsp;and will meet&nbsp;officials from <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/03/02/mayor-john-tory-to-lead-trade-mission-to-india-and-sri-lanka.html" target="_blank">Tata</a>, India&#39;s largest conglomerate, about &quot;expansion plans&quot;.

Tory closed by&nbsp;issuing&nbsp;a personal guarantee that he would &ldquo;bend over backwards&rdquo; for &ldquo;entrepreneurs and risk takers&rdquo; in order to welcome them and give them access to &ldquo;smart people there&rdquo;.&nbsp;

Indians seem to have always had&nbsp;a soft spot&nbsp;for&nbsp;Canada, and maybe particularly&nbsp;Toronto, but in&nbsp;an era of post-demonetisation and President&nbsp;Trump, it&#39;s nice to see&nbsp;Toronto make an extra effort to welcome&nbsp;them, and their money, to the city.&nbsp;

(WION) 
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John Tory emphasised Toronto as a centre for commerce, culture and multiculturalism in an effort to increase Indo-Canadian ties

Canada’s second-most internationally beloved politician with the initials JT was in New Delhi Wednesday to speak to business leaders and politicians “to let the world know Toronto is open for business”. The twenty-odd minute speech was dubbed, “Opportunities in Toronto in the evolving global landscape”. Tory insisted he was here as a salesman for Toronto, the first mayor from the city to visit India in 20 years. Premier Kathleen Wynne visited in February 2016, and the chatter before Tory began speaking anticipated a visit to India from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (the other "JT") later this year or in early 2018. Mayor Tory’s sell should be easy. Whenever I tell Indians here I myself come from Toronto, they instantly become visibly excited and tell me of their four thousand relatives who live there. Tory began with facts: Canada is a safe and stable parliamentary democracy with 1.2 million people of Indian-origin living there, good for three per cent of the country's overall population. One out of every two people in Toronto was born outside Canada. Tory emphasised that Toronto wants Indian students to enroll in its high-quality schools, and was glad to say that some graduates would head back to India while some would remain in Canada, to both country's benefit. The Toronto film industry got special mention, as cinema could be the heart of the cultural link between the two countries. For decades, many American movies were actually filmed in Toronto (it can easily be dressed up to look like American cities, and Canadian taxes greatly lower production costs). It's easy to see why Toronto wants to capture the growth potential of linking up with Bollywood. Toronto has historically been pitched as a centre of commerce and a haven for multiculturalism, but the cliche for the latter has received an update. Even conservatives like Tory pitching Toronto-multiculturalism are too sophisticated now to say racism there does not exist, so they add a caveat: We’ve made progress, but we must do more. This was a major theme. While this contains some of the passive smugness the world may not know to detest Canadians for, the cliches Tory invoked is too true to dismiss, especially at a time when the United States and many European countries are closing their borders. Trump loomed large, but Tory artistically avoiding saying his name aloud. He repeatedly said he was unwilling to comment on the situation elsewhere, including in Europe, and said that Toronto is simply sharing its positive story that has led to its success. Tory claimed he is “furiously resisting polarisation”, and that he has categorically denounced racist incidents when they do indeed come up in Toronto, for which he said he is roundly commended by citizens people. With him was the newly-elected Toronto city councillor Neethan Shan, the city’s first Tamil councillor. Tory referred to Shan as “a breakthrough”, and said it was important for visible minorities to see themselves in the institutions that impact their lives, in order to instil trust. Tory spoke about bus shelter ads featuring a white and black person with a caption prompting the viewer-- who would you hire? He cited this as evidence that the government is deliberately trying to provoke people into thinking about barriers different people face. While this comes from a man who during the 2014 mayoral race claimed white privilege does not exist, whether the mayor himself has genuinely evolved on this file or whether he’s speaking for the city broadly, the thrust of his point about the city holds. He was selling Toronto, not him. Tory framed inclusivity as both something that arises naturally in Torontonians because it’s the decent thing to do, rather than something to merely say out of rote political correctness, but also framed inclusivity as being a powerful case to draw business. He pointed to a Toronto-based piracy-detection company that chose to locate there because, surely among other reasons, it was the easiest place to find people who speak so many languages from around the world. Anecdotally, so many Indians have told me they would love to visit if not move to Canada that Tory’s speech to win them over seems hardly necessary, until you remember he was talking less to individual Indians than to Indian business. Tory started his trade mission to India at the Delhi-based headquarters for the digital payment company Paytm, and will meet officials from Tata, India's largest conglomerate, about "expansion plans". Tory closed by issuing a personal guarantee that he would “bend over backwards” for “entrepreneurs and risk takers” in order to welcome them and give them access to “smart people there”. Indians seem to have always had a soft spot for Canada, and maybe particularly Toronto, but in an era of post-demonetisation and President Trump, it's nice to see Toronto make an extra effort to welcome them, and their money, to the city. (WION)

Toronto mayor visits New Delhi to promote Canada's largest city to Indian business, students