Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program: Key 2018 Changes. Three new Express Entry-linked PNP streams were created in 2018 and others were improved. Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program continued to assert itself as the rising star of Canada’s economic immigration programs in 2018 and is expected to play an even more prominent role in the months ahead. The Provincial Nominee Program, or PNP, allows participating Canadian provinces and territories to nominate a set number of economic immigrants for permanent residence each year. A portion of these nominations are considered ‘enhanced’ nominations and allow a province or territory to nominate candidates in the federal Express Entry system, which manages the pool of candidates for three of Canada’s…
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Saskatchewan Invites 90 Entrepreneur Candidates To Apply
The province of Saskatchewan issued its first Entrepreneur invitations of 2019 on January 3. A total of 90 candidates were invited with scores ranging from 115 to 150 under the category’s points assessment grid. Saskatchewan’s Entrepreneur Category is for eligible candidates who would like to establish, acquire or partner in a business that meets specified provincial criteria. In order to be eligible, interested immigrant entrepreneurs must first submit an Expression of Interest to the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program. An EOI is a pre-application that screens interested candidates for eligibility and provides them with a ranking score based on the Entrepreneur Category’s points assessment grid. Entrepreneurs who are invited to apply for an approval letter, and are subsequently…
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Ontario, B.C. led Canadian provinces in employment gains in 2018
Ontario led Canada’s provinces and territories in net employment gains in 2018 — a year that saw Canada’s unemployment rate reach its lowest point since 1976. The number of people employed in Ontario grew by 78,000 over the course of 2018, all of it full-time employment, while the province’s unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 5.4 per cent — the second lowest rate among Canada’s provinces. The Canadian province that posted the lowest unemployment rate in 2018 was British Columbia, at 4.4 per cent. B.C. saw the number of people employed in the province grow by 44,000 in 2018, with most working full-time. Statistics Canada said B.C.’s employment growth…
