From the removal of temporary COVID-19 measures to the introduction of new streams Here are PNP highlights for 2021.
In 2021 in Canada, the Provincial Nominee Programs (PNP) have worked to address shift in labour requirements caused by the pandemic, developing new immigration streams and focusing on candidates from certain industries of economics.
The PNP is an immigration program administered jointly by federal, provincial as well as territorial government. It provides Canadian regions and provinces with the chance to develop their own immigration channels to better meet their specific labour requirements and goals for economic development.
Canada launched PNP in 1998. PNP in 1998 in order to deal with the high amount of immigrants moving to the country’s most populous provinces, like British Columbia, Ontario, or Quebec. One of the primary goals that the PNP is to help immigrants to move to regions that are less populated in the country.
In the present it is believed that the PNP provides a substantial portion of economic immigration to all provinces and territories in Canada. Truly various more modest Canadian areas like Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba just as Saskatchewan are subject to the PNP to satisfy their workforce and segment prerequisites.
Because of the importance to this program for PNP for the territories and provinces, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) assured the Express Entry invitations to PNP applicants continue to be issued every two weeks from the time of the pandemic. However, others federal immigration programmes, like the Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Worker Program and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), have been affected by delays or irregularities.
Alberta
2021 was the year of restart of PNP draws beginning in January. Alberta had been able to limit its immigrants intake in the previous year, and had temporarily shut down invitation rounds under the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program. Alberta offered invitations on a regular basis throughout 2021 and announced that the province had distributed all of its 6,250 certificates in 2021.
In the year 2020, Alberta’s Government of Alberta announced that they would launch a new stream of immigration for international students: the Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa (FGSVS). The new stream is available to applicants since the 27th of January 2021.
Ontario
Ontario’s Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) hosted invitation for applicants across their streams throughout 2021. The program also announced the expression of interest process for admission to the streams listed below Employer Job Offer International and Foreign Student streams Employer Job Offer In-Demand Skills, Masters Grad as well as PhD graduate streams. Ontario has issued 7,432 invitations to submit an application to be a nominee for the provincial office using the five streams that will be available in 2021.
Ontario’s three Express Entry linked nomination streams Three Express Entry nomination streams Human Capital Priorities, French-Speaking Skilled Worker, and Skilled Trades have released 8,234 Notices of Interest for Express Entry candidates in 2021.
If an applicant for immigration is able to meet the PNP requirements for selection in the province or territory and is awarded the provincial nomination which permits applicants to apply for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (RCC) to obtain permanent residency.
PNP streams were designed specifically to lure immigrants from all levels of skill and are managed by the territory and provinces.
The majority of participating provinces and territories offer at minimum one PNP stream which is in line to Federal Express Entry system, which is the primary source for economic immigration.
Express Entry linked PNP streams, often known as “enhanced” PNPs, allow provinces to select Express Entry candidates and invite candidates to submit an application for a provincial nomination. Express Entry applicants who are selected by a province or territory receive 600 points towards the Comprehensive Ranking System score.
PNP stream that operates outside Express Entry known by the term “base” PNPs, can be able to nominate candidates. They later seek permanent residency in the absence of Express Entry program.
Provinces and territories can nominate candidates in any of the base or enhanced stream that comprise the PNP. IRCC decides on the distribution of nominations annually in accordance with its annual immigration level planning and discussions with provinces. Between the present between 2023 and now, PNPs will lead to more than 80,000 immigrants each year becoming permanent residents.
