Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot of Canada Requirements and process

Low IELTS score, low fees, and easy process are going to make “Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot” of Canada perhaps the best PR program of 2020.

Rural and Northern participating communities will be able to get more immigrants than ever before.

The community-driven pilot program has started now in November. And communities have started accepted applications from applicants.

“You should find an employer and start working for him in one participating community. As an applicant, if your permanent residency is approved, you will have the chance to work and stay there.”

Participating communities

The participating pilot communities are as follows:

1. North Bay, ON
2. Sudbury, ON
3. Timmins, ON
4. Sault Ste. Marie, ON
5. Thunder Bay, ON
6. Brandon, MB
7. Altona/Rhineland, MB
8. Moose Jaw, SK
9. Claresholm, AB
10. Vernon, BC
11. West Kootenay, for example, Trail, Castlegar, Rossland, Nelson, BC

Which communities have started accepting applications?

Currently, only 5 out of eleven communities have started accepting applications from international applicants.

For free jobs, and applying to communities, check out the following options:

1- Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

• Apply for jobs in this community
• Apply for nomination from the community here

2- Altona/Rhineland, Manitoba

• Jobs in this community are here
• Create a profile to apply for jobs and getting job notifications

3- Thunderbay

• Jobs opportunities

4- Brandon

• View job opportunities here

5- Vernon

• Have a look at current job opportunities

6- Claresholm

•    More information here for workers

Since it is a community-driven pilot program, so all the major requirements of designated communities have to be met too other than of the federal government.

The process

The applicants as skilled workers will be able to pick one participating community and work for an employer. If your application for permanent residency is successfully approved, the community will recommend you and you will be able to work and stay there.

Eligibility criteria

If you want to be a member of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program, you have to:

• Be qualified for job offer
• Set a prove that you have an intention to live in the community recommended by designated community
• Be a recommended applicant from an economic community organization
• Be a qualified experienced worker or to be a post-secondary institution graduated in the community that recommends you
• Have a minimal knowledge of the language (English or French)
• Meet minimal educational requirements
• Set money to prove that you are able to do a community transition (settlement funds)
• Get a recommendation from one of the pilot’s participating community

“The decision of candidate recommendation is designed on the intention to live in the community and work for their economic needs and the skillset and work experience and also your ties to the community”.

Major requirements for “Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot”

There are many important requirements for this program to be fulfilled which are as follows:

• Professional work experience

You need to have at least one year of persistent work experience (1560 hours) in the previous 3 years.

How to measure your work experience hours?

The working can be in 1 occupation with different employers, part-time or full-time working.
The hours have to be achieved in the 12 months, inside or outside Canada.
You can be a temporary resident to work in Canada if you want it.
Volunteering and unpaid internships are not counted as the working hours as well as previous self-employing

In your work experience, there should be included a number of all duties, main and essential, showed in your National Occupational Classification and as well as the activities in the lead statement.

⇒ Read also about Canada’s  Agri-Food industry immigration pilot

• Valid job offer

You have to achieve a very good job offer in one participating community.

This should be a full-time non-seasonal job with 30 working hours a week. Your work needs to be scheduled and persistent during the year. It means permanent employment.
The salary needs to achieve the Job Bank’s minimum related to the NOC job offer. You need to prove that your experience is appropriate for the offered work duties.

• Skill level

Your skill level and working experience need to be 1 level up or below the NOC, related to your job offering and employment. For example for NOC 0 job offer, you have to show work experience in NOC 0 or A. Anyhow, if your experience level is D compared to NOC, then the job needs to be in the same occupation.

• Language requirements

Minimum language knowledge based on NOC level that applies to the community job offer and the employer. This can be Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or
Niveaux de compétence Linguistique canadiens (NCLC).

By the NOC, the minimum language requirements for IELTS are:

NOC 0 and A: CLB/NCLC 6      (Reading 5.0    Writing 5.5    Listening 5.5  Speaking 5.5)
NOC B: CLB/NCLC 5                (Reading 4.0     Writing 5.0   Listening 5.0  Speaking 5.0)
NOC C and D: CLB/NCLC 4     (Reading 3.5     Writing 4.0    Listening 4.5    Speaking 4.0)

• Educational requirements

High school Canadian diploma or ECA report (educational credential assessment) achieved from the professional person as proof that you have foreign approval similar to some Canadian high school.
Up to 5 years application ECA report
Original ECA report issued after the designating of the organization

• Settlement funds

You need to show money to prove that you are able to support yourself and your family members while you are residing in the community unless you already live and work legally in Canada during your application process. This can be shown through a personal bank account, property, bonds, banker’s draft or cheques, etc.

International students

You are exempt from that kind of criteria if you are an international student who graduated:

With a 2+ year post-secondary program and studying a full-time during the 2 years.
Credential receiving 18 months before the permanent residency.
16 months of the last 24 months of the community staying spent on studying or Master’s or higher degree.
Full time studying in the duration of the degree.
Community staying for the duration of the studies.

You can’t be an international student applicant if the credits are from the program where:

• Half program is filled with French and English studying, and also distance learning.
• The scholarship was achieved and required you to go back to your home and apply for what you are studying for.

Some important features of the program

• The Canadian government Intends to share the benefits of economic immigration to the smaller communities with building a permanent residing route for skilled workers with a desire to live and work in these kinds of communities.
• The participating communities are powered by the Canadian government for testing new approaches to help the labor marketplace and increase the regional economy through immigration and also supporting immigrants and refugees to stay in the communities by making various special environments.
• The pilot will contribute to long term suspension by increasing the number of new skilled workers and immigrants, by collaborating with partners of the federal, provincial and territorial governments and also other partners related to the community.

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