Take a look at these provincial immigration streams

If you are a candidate who has applied to obtain Canadian permanent residency under the express entry system, you would have experienced receiving an invitation to go ahead and apply for the provincial nomination. These invitations will come, without even you try to apply under a provincial nomination. They will be specialized immigration streams in Nova Scotia, Alberta and Ontario. During the recent past, these immigration streams have been used in order to look for the candidates under Express Entry pool, who meet specific criteria, such as skilled work experience. The identified individuals are then provided with these invitations to apply via the provincial nomination so that they can secure their permanent residency. These immigration entryways are also being called as passive entryways because the candidates will only be able to apply once they are selected. All the candidates who apply under the provincial nomination stream will be awarded extra 600 points, which will be added to the comprehensive ranking system. As a result, they can easily get to the top of the invitation system, where they can receive the invitations from the invitation rounds without any hassle.

How do the provincial immigration streams work?

It is important to have a clear understanding of how provincial immigration streams work. Then you will be able to make informed decisions while you apply for it. This varies from one province to another. Hence, let’s deep dive to the province and understand more about it.

– Nova Scotia

The labour market that you can find in Nova Scotia pays more attention towards contacting the candidates in Express Entry Pool with related work experience to get all the labour shortages covered within the province. Hence, people who are in the candidate pool often receive invitations from the province of Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia Nominee Program, which is also known as NSNP has conducted two different types of research in this stream since August 2018. One of them has been for the early childhood assistants and educators, whereas the other one has been to hire financial accountants and auditors. As per the draw that took place on 24th of January, eligible candidates had to have a score of in between 400 and 450. On the other hand, it was important for them to have at least 5 years of related work experience as financial accountants and auditors. If you can declare your work experience accurately, there is a high possibility for you to improve the CRS score in an effective manner. However, most of the individuals will experience unforeseen awards, such as getting an opportunity to go ahead and apply through a passive stream, like the opportunity that we discussed just above.

– Alberta

The express entry system in Alberta was introduced only in 2018. With that, they are now using the express entry pool in order to locate the candidates, who meet specific immigration eligibility requirements. The candidates who have a score of at least 300 in the comprehensive ranking system, who also have work experience in the skilled occupation list will be able to receive a provincial nomination through Alberta province. If the candidates have work experience in Alberts, if they have a job offer from a company based in Alberta or have a Canadian post-secondary institution certificate will be able to receive priority points at the time of applying under the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program. However, they also warn that the Express Entry profiles that are set to expire in less than three months to the date of the draw will not be considered. Therefore, you need to be mindful about these facts when you are applying under it. In the last draw, the selected candidates only had 301 points. Hence, there is an excellent opportunity available and the candidates will only have to capitalize it.

– Ontario

There are three different express entry linked streams in Ontario. Out of them, the human capital priorities stream has received the most attention. Under this stream, 1493 notifications of interest were sent out from the draw that was held back in 14th of January. The stream is limited to the Canadian Experience Class and the Federal Skilled Worker Class. You don’t need to have a French language proficiency or a job offer to get through this category. Ontario has conducted target searches in order to locate qualified individuals with qualifications to go ahead and apply. These target searches were looking for the candidates, who had a minimum of at least 350 CRS points. The other two skilled worker express streams that are highly in demand at Ontario include Skilled Trades stream and the French Speaking Skilled Worker stream. More than 560 applicants have been provided with notification of interest so far within the year.