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Canada has issued 250 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) to
Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) candidates in its first Express Entry draw of 2021.
The January 6 draw required a minimum Comprehensive Ranking
System (CRS) score of 813 points. It was the first draw aimed
exclusively at PNP candidates since August 19, 2020.
When the coronavirus crisis began in Canada in March 2020,
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) switched to
draws focused on PNP and Canadian Experience Class (CEC)
candidates, given they were more likely to already be in the
country.
However, since August 2020, IRCC had resumed regular all-program
Skilled Workers in Manitoba 157 LAAs with a score of at least 461;
Skilled Workers Overseas 13 LAAs with a score of at least 718; and
International Education Stream 18 LAAs, no EOI score requirement.
Out of the 188 LAAs issued, 13 went to Express Entry candidates. The MPNP says they will refuse any of these candidates who do not have a valid Express Entry ID, a job seeker validation code, and verifiable experience in an occupation on Manitoba’s In-demand Occupations list.
The MPNP only considered Skilled Worker Overseas candidates in this draw if they were directly invited under a strategic recruitment initiative.
If candidates scored higher than the minimum ranking, but did not receive an LAA, it could be because:
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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
Ontario has issued more than 8,000 nominations to immigration candidates this year, more than filling the number of spots the province was originally allowed.
The federal government originally allocated 7,600 provincial nomination for the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) out of the 61,000 that were expected to be welcomed through the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) in 2020.
But, Ontario has finished off the year with 8,050 successful nominations across all streams, including 400 additional nominations that the province received through an in-year reallocation, and 50 more for intermediate skilled occupations, or NOC skill level C.
All new applications, and those that are in processing, will be considered under the 2021 nomination allocation. Ontario’s allocation for 2021 is not yet available, but we know that the PNP is expected to bring in upwards of 80,800 immigrants over the next three years, according to the new immigration levels plan.