The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot is a community-driven program that allows participating small and remote communities to attract and retain foreign workers by matching them with local job openings and supporting their settlement. Skilled workers must secure a job offer from an employer in a participating community. If the community recommends them and their permanent residency application is approved, they can move to the community to live and work there.
Skilled workers must meet the following requirements:
- 1 year of continuous work experience (at least 1,560 hours) in the past 3 years
- Must have a genuine job offer from one of the participating communities
- The job offer must be at the same skill level, 1 level above or 1 level below the NOC that applies to the work experience
- Must meet the minimum language requirement based on the NOC Category that applies to the job offer
- NOC 0 and A: CLB 6
- NOC B: CLB 5
- NOC C and D: CLB 4
- Must have a Canadian high school diploma or an educational credential assessment report showing that they completed a foreign credential that is equal to Canadian secondary school
- Settlement funds
- Intention to live in the community
To be considered eligible to participate in the pilot, the community must meet certain criteria:
- Must have a population of 50,000 people or less and be located at least 75 km from the core of a Census Metropolitan Area or up to 200,000 people and be considered remote from other larger cities
- Be located in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yukon
- Have job opportunities
- Have an economic development plan
- Have a local economic development organization that can manage the pilot within the community
- Have the capacity to settle new immigrants in the community by having or developing:
- Relationships with local or regional immigrant-serving organizations
- Access to education, housing, transportation and health care
- Opportunities to connect with newcomers
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