Category: Immigration

Caregiver Pilot Program 2019-2024

Immigration Canada has announced 2 new Caregiver immigration pilots. The Home Child Care Provider (NOC4411) and Home Support Worker (NOC4412) pilots are the new Caregiver immigration pathway to Canada. It will open for applications on June 18, 2019.

This new program will replace the expiring Caring for Children and Caring for People with High Medical Needs pilots.

Caregivers will now have to meet the standard criteria for economic immigration before you are granted a work permit.

Requirements:

1. IETLS/CELPIP/TEF/TCF for Canada = CLB/NCLC 5
2. Post-secondary diploma/certificate/advanced diploma of at least 1 year in Canada or ECA
3. 24-months of work experience within 36-months prior the submission of the application of the following jobs:
   1. Home Child Provider (NOC 4411)
   2. Home Support Worker (NOC 4412)
4. If you do not have work experience, you need a genuine job offer (LMIA is not required)

Since the work permit is granted base on occupation-specific rather than employer-specific, candidate have flexibility in changing their employer if necessary. Also, the immediate member of the principal applicant can accompany them to Canada. This pilot will give the principal applicant a lot of advantages when apply for permanent residency.

The processing time of this program is 12-18 months.

Canada to admit additional 2,000 temporary workers under PNP

The Government of Canada has stated that it will be accepting an additional 2,000 temporary foreign workers through the Provincial Nominee Program. This announcement was made on March 12, 2019.

The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) allows participating provinces and territories of Canada to nominate a specific number of candidates for Permanent Residence (PR) every year. This program helps the provincial/territorial government to accept more skilled worker to meet the demand for the local labour market.

The Government aims at admitting existing long-term Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada, who have intermediate skills classified as National Occupational Code “C”

In 2019, Canada plans on admitting 61,000 candidates for the PNP. The prospects for Canadian Immigration are growing every day. This makes it an ideal time to consider moving to Canada as a Permanent Resident!

An encyclopedic guide to the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot program (RNIP)

The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program is one of the successful ideas generated in the year 2019 right after the success of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program, which was introduced in the year of 2017. Now the very recent is Yukon Community Pilot Program which is also introduced just to stimulate economic growth by attracting skilled immigrants.

Canada is always known for attracting immigrants in terms of giving quick permanent residence. The majority of immigrants choose to live in cities like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. The RNIP came into action just to bring skilled immigrants to Canada’s rural areas and by doing so they are looking for a stable economy.

RNIP

What is RNIP?

The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program is community-driven, where various communities selected for this program are all in all. Permanent Residence is one of the key ingredients of this program.
RNIP

Communities with their provinces are below listed

A. Ontario (North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay)
B. Manitoba (Brandon, Altona/Rhineland)
C. Saskatchewan (Moose Jaw)
D. Alberta (Claresholm)
E. British Columbia (Vernon, West Kootenay)
F. Nunavut
G. The Northwest Territories
H. Yukon
RNIP

What is the process to apply?

You are just four steps away from the permanent residence application
You need to check the requirements as per the IRCC eligibility list and the community-specific list.

a. IRCC requirements:

i. Minimum 1 year of work experience inside or outside of Canada with mentioned hours and you should mention your essential
duties which are listed in your National Occupational Classification (NOC).

ii. International students are exempted from work experience if they have completed >= 2 years of course within the community.

iii. Language requirement as part Canadian Language Benchmark(CLB) standard.

NOC 0 & A: CLB-6

NOC B: CLB-5

NOC C & D: CLB-4

iv. Educational must be a minimum of high school level/diploma and should have the Educational Credential Report.

v. You need to show settlement funds as per the IRCC list.

b. Each community will also have its process

i. Eligibility requirements

ii. Job search process

iii. Recommendation Process: You can find that in the specific community website.

Find a job from the specific community employer you are applying for.

Above all, if you intend to participate in this pilot program you should have a clear plan to live in the community.

After getting a job offer you need to apply for a community recommendation.
If the community recommends you then you can apply for permanent residence.

British Columbia conducted the latest draw for Tech Pilot on February 5, 2019.

British Columbia conducted the latest draw for Tech Pilot on February 5, 2019. British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) issued 32 ITAs (Invitations to Apply) for Permanent Residency. The candidates were chosen from Skills Immigration and Express Entry streams. The Express Entry candidates who received an invitation in this draw received an extra 600 points in their CRS score.

What is BC Tech Pilot?

British Columbia is one of the booming markets for tech jobs in Canada. However, the province does not have enough skilled worker to meet the increasing demands for talents. The BC PNP Tech Pilot is a program launched under the BC Provincial Nominee Program. This program is aimed at recruiting top foreign talents in British Columbia’s tech sector. BC had launched its Tech Pilot Stream to hire more skilled talents for its growing tech jobs market.
To be eligible, candidates must meet the following criteria:
Have an offer letter for a job which has at least a 1-year term.
Your job must be in the tech pilot’s 29 priority occupations.
The BC PNP Tech Pilot has some appealing benefits
Issuing of weekly invitations to “tech-only” applicants;
Priority-based processing;
One-on-one employer support and other PNP sessions and events.
BC PNP Tech Pilot has priority processing. Thus, applications are usually processed within 2-3 months.

The Tech Pilot conducts draws every week. Hence, don’t miss the next deadline!

New Federal Program to Assist Permanent Residency Immigration in Rural and Northern Canada

On January 24, the Government of Canada announced the launch of its new immigration program. The program is called Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. It is a five-year plan and is similar to the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program. The objective of the program is to provide various assistance to small rural communities to help foreign workers in settling as a Permanent Resident:

The participating provinces and territories are:

• Ontario
• Manitoba
• Saskatchewan
• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Yukon
• Northwest Territories
• Nunavut

This program will be operating simultaneously with the Provincial Nominee Programs. Communities, willing to participate, have to submit an application to IRCC by March 1, 2019. They also have to fulfil all the eligibility requirements.

The launch of this program is a major effort in promoting permanent residency among new immigrant in Canada!

Canada PNP has started holding new draws for 2019

Canada’s Provincial Nominee Programs or PNP had seen major developments last year. PNP allows the participating Canadian provinces and territories to nominate candidates from the Federal Express Entry pool. Nominated candidates receive an additional 600 points to their CRS score. It increases their probability of receiving an Invitation to Apply (ITA) in the next Federal draw.

n 2018, 34,700 candidates were nominated through PNP (an increase by 1300 from 2017). It is expected that there will be more nominations this year. However, IRCC has not released any numbers yet.

Within the first week of 2019, a couple of draws has already been held in the provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

• On January 2, BC issued the first invitations to candidates in Skilled Worker, International Graduate and Skills Immigration — Entry Level and Semi-Skilled. The lowest scores were 85 for Skilled Worker, 95 for International Graduate and 68 for Entry Level and Semi-Skilled. A total of 151 invitations were issued.
• On January 3, Saskatchewan issued invitations to candidates in the Entrepreneur category. 90 invitations were issued in this draw. The scores range of the nominated candidates was 115 – 150.