Why Express Entry Candidates should aim to get Provincial Nomination?

The Provincial Nominee program is designed specifically so that the aspirants can participate in Canada PNP and the territories PNP in an urge to apply for nomination and receive permanent residence if the candidates got an invite to apply. 

Each of the Canadian province and Territories PNP from now on has minimum one Express Entry linked nomination stream. These streams are liable to manage the applicant profile under 3 federal economic immigration.

• Federal Skilled Trades Class
• Federal Skilled Worker Class
• Canadian Experience Class

All those Express Entry candidates who desire to fast track their invitation to apply for the Permanent residence should aim to receive a provincial nomination. When they get provincial they receive an additional 600 points towards their Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score.

Saskatchewan Moves to EOI

The applicant to be eligible for the EOI system for Saskatchewan, they are required to submit Expression of Interest by making EOI profile and they offered ranks based on the answer provided related to their experience, education and proficiency in the English or French etc.

All those applicants of Saskatchewan PNP who have received about 60 points on Saskatchewan’s assessment grid receive invites for their provincial nomination. Nearing to 691 invites was issued in the recent draws. 

Under the Ontario PNP, the human capital priorities stream helps to find all eligible candidates who accomplish the federal as well as provincial criteria from the Express Entry Pool.

The second draw was conducted this year in August, which pinpointed the Express Entry applicants holding a job offer in Ontario province. Even though the job is not essential under Ontario’s eligibility criteria, but job holding applicants were given preference. The two subsequent draws held surprisingly drifted away from the eligibility criteria established by choosing the applicants with less than 400 CRS score. 

Repeatedly dropping in the CRS score to 400 depends majorly on a number of eligible candidates in the Express Entry pool, the Ontario labour market needs as well as the province’s economic immigration priorities. 

The French Speaking Express Entry applicants get invites through Ontario French-speaking Skilled Worker stream, regularly weekly draws are conducted and it has issued nearing to 419 NOI.

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Ontario Provincial Nominee Program and Categories

In Canada, one of the most popular provinces is Ontario. Nearing to 40% of the nation’s population live here, thus making it a prime destination not just for immigration but for travel as well. Due to its burgeoning economy, over the previous decade, the above province has attracted a large number of people. Under Canada Immigration, applying for Ontario PNP makes it easy for the candidates to move to this province.

 Under the Ontario PNP program, the Ontario province accepts the application from three categories.

·         Human Capital Category

·         Business Category

·         General Category or Employer Job Offer

Under Human Capital Category, it has two different categories, they include

1.       Express Entry stream

The three main categories of Ontario’s Express Entry include

·         Human Capital Priorities Stream

·         Skilled Trades Stream

·         French Speaking skilled worker stream

2.       Graduate Stream

Under the above stream, it enables foreign students who have completed either masters or PhD in Ontario to work and live permanently in Ontario. To apply under the above stream, job offer not essential. 

General category stream or Employer Job Offer

Under the Employer Job Offer Category, it enables in the above province to recruit international students or foreign workers to meet their labor or human resource skills needs.

 Below you can find the current status of Ontario Immigration Nominee Program under the varied streams or head. Time to time, there are changes, hence candidates must keep themselves updated with the latest information to know which stream is currently accepting the applications.

Stream/Head	Job offer	Express Entry(Align)	Present status
Foreign workers	Yes	No	Accepts Applications
French-speaking skilled worker	No	Yes	Accepts applications and sends invite
Skilled Trades	No	Yes	Accepts applications and sends invite
Human capital priorities	No	Yes	Accepts applications and sends invite
International student	Yes	No	Accepts applications
PHD graduates	No	Yes	Accepts applications
Masters Graduates	No	Yes	Intake stopped
Entrepreneur	No	Yes	Accepts EOI & issues invite and accepts applications
In-demand skills	Yes	No	Accepts applications
Corporate	No	Yes	open

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