Ontario is inviting 1,186 PNP applicants from all Employer Job Offer streams to apply
Ontario has held its first round of invites under the Employer Job Offer category after more than a month
On December 7, Ontario responded with a bang, inviting 1,186 immigrant applicants to apply for a provincial nomination.
Candidates who had profiles in the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program’s (OINP) Expression of Interest (EOI) system received invitations. In a table, below are the outcomes of all the draws:
Under the Employer Job Offer category, these applicants may be qualified for one of three streams: Foreign Worker, International Student, or In-Demand Skills. Candidates who had applied for the Regional Immigration Pilot received some of the invitations.
Candidates recruited under the Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Specialties stream have prior job experience in the following NOCs:
Agricultural and medical occupations:
- NOC 3413 – nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates
- NOC 4412 – home support workers and related occupations, excluding housekeepers
- NOC 8431 – general farmworkers
- NOC 8432 – nursery and greenhouse workers
- NOC 8611 – harvesting labourers
- NOC 9462 – industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
Manufacturing (only outside of the GTA):
- NOC 9411 – machine operators, mineral and metal processing
- NOC 9416 – metalworking and forging machine operators
- NOC 9417 – machining tool operators
- NOC 9418 – other metal products machine operators
- NOC 9421 – chemical plant machine operators
- NOC 9422 – plastics processing machine operators
- NOC 9437 – woodworking machine operators
- NOC 9446 – industrial sewing machine operators
- NOC 9461 – process control and machine operators, food, beverage and associated products processing
- NOC 9523 – electronics assemblers, fabricators, inspectors and testers
- NOC 9526 – mechanical assemblers and inspectors
- NOC 9536 – industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators
More immigrants are wanted in Ontario.
Every year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) distributes a set number of nominations to provinces and territories that operate Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs).
In 2021, Ontario will receive 8,350 submissions for temporary workers in medium-skilled occupations, NOC Skill Level C, plus an additional 250 nominations.
Ontario had issued 8,600 nominations as of November 10, 2021. In an October interview with CIC News, Ontario’s immigration minister, Monte McNaughton, said the province is requesting the federal government to treble its allocation next year.
The Working for Employees Act, which was recently approved in Ontario, will, among other things, assist immigrant workers in integrating into regulated industries outside of the healthcare sector. It will make it illegal for regulatory organisations to need Canadian work experience, abolish the necessity for a language exam for licencing purposes, and speed up the licencing procedure, especially in emergency situations.