Newfoundland and Labrador will start accepting applications for a new program on January 2.
The Priority Skills Newfoundland and Labrador is a new immigration program for highly educated, highly skilled newcomers with specialized experience in areas where demand has outpaced local training and recruitment, such as technology and ocean sciences occupations.
The program was created to help address local labour market shortages. It will be open to newcomers who have at least one year of work experience in highly skilled, high-demand occupations, as well as post-graduates who completed a Masters or Doctorate degree at Memorial University within three years.
“Newfoundland and Labrador invests a great deal of time, effort, and money to attract newcomers to our shores,” the province’s minister of immigration, Gerry Byrne, said in a release. “Once we attract newcomers, we invest even more into our own Memorial University for education and training. Driven by the leadership of the premier, our government is now investing to assist more highly-skilled, highly educated newcomers to stay, right here, and go on to have full careers and raise families throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.”