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No fewer than 28,358 Nigerians received invitations to apply for Canadian permanent residency from 2015 to 2021.
This is according to analysis of Express Entry annual reports issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for the years under review.
The year-end reports overview all EE process stages from profile submissions, invitations to apply, applications and admissions.
According to the report, Nigeria rose from seventh to the second most common country of citizenship of applicants who received an ITA from the Canadian authority in the four years spanning 2015 to 2019.
Within that period, the number of Nigerians who received ITAs rose by a whopping 889 per cent.
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