4,000 Canadian working holiday visas were snapped up within ten minutes this morning.
A total of 10,700 Canadian Visas are being made available to Irish citizens.
According to one applicant, "I got visa number 301 and that was at 8.02. Within ten minutes the Canadian visa website indicated that the 4,000 visas had been snapped up."
The Canadian government says there is a needed for skilled workers, particularly in the oil and gas industries in Alberta.
People who secure jobs at the expo will be allocated a reserved number of visas.
Organisers of the Expo have been keen to point to research from UCC last year, that indicated 47% of today's emigrants were in fact employed in full-time jobs before leaving Ireland.
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