Canada Atlantic Immigration Program

Over the last 5 years, you should have worked at least 1,560 hours. That’s the number of hours you would have worked in 1 year if you were working 30 hours each week.

To calculate your hours
– Count hours worked in part-time and full-time jobs.
– Count just paid hours of employment. Volunteering or unpaid internships don’t count.
– Don’t count hours while you were self-employed.
– Count work hours inside or outside Canada. You must have been lawfully allowed to work in Canada as a temporary resident.
– Count hours that were completed during a period of at least 12 months.
– Count work experience earned while studying, as provided as the work hours don’t exceed what was approved.

This work should fall into one of the following National Occupational Classification (NOC) skill categories.

– NOC Skill Type 0 (management jobs such as restaurant managers, mine managers)
– NOC Skill Level A (professional jobs that usually need a degree from a university, such as doctors, dentists, architects)
– NOC Skill Level B (technical jobs and skilled trades such as chefs, electricians, plumbers)
– NOC Skill Level C (intermediate jobs that usually call for high school and/or job-specific training, such as industrial butchers, long-haul truck drivers, food and beverage servers)

Your work experience must include
– The actions in the description of your NOC
– The main duties of your NOC

If you’re an international student who graduated with honours, you’re exempted from the aforementioned work experience requirements.
1- A credential from a 2-year or longer post-secondary program in which you were
a) Enrolled full-time for the entire 2-year program
b) Received the credential no more than 18 months before applying for permanent residence
c) Spent at least 16 of the last 24 months studying for your credential in the community

Or

You must have a master’s degree or above.
a) Were a full-time student for the duration of your degree
b) Received your degree no more than 18 months before submitting your permanent residency application.
c) You spent the most of your time in the community during your studies.

If your credentials are from a program that does not accept international students, you will not be able to apply as an international student. Some of these are;

– More than half of the program was spent learning English or French.
– More than half of the curriculum was delivered via distance learning
– You were awarded a scholarship or fellowship that required you to return to your home country and put what you learned into practice.

Based on the NOC category that relates to the employment offer in the community, you must meet the minimal language requirements. This could be

– Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) or Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC)
The language requirements for each NOC category are as follows:

– NOC 0 and A: CLB/NCLC 6
– NOC B: CLB/NCLC 5
– NOC C and D: CLB/NCLC 4

You must submit the results of a language test that has been designated. When you apply, these results must be less than two years old.
To learn more about language testing, request a callback and one of our immigration specialists will get in touch with you.

Eleven villages have been chosen to participate in the trial as of June 2019. In order to test the pilot, these communities will get a variety of services and initiatives.

Ontario:
– Thunder Bay
– Sault-Ste-Marie
– Sudbury
– Timmins
– North Bay

Manitoba:
– Gretna-Rhineland-Altona-Plum Coulee
– Brandon
– Saskatchewan
– Moose Jaw

Alberta:
– Claresholm

British Columbia:
– West Kootenay
– Vernon

A community must have a population of 50,000 or less and be located at least 75 kilometers from the center of a census metropolitan area, or a population of 200,000 or less and be considered remote from other larger cities, in order to qualify.

Communities must be in one of the provinces or regions listed below:

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• Northwest Territories
• Nunavut
• Ontario
• Saskatchewan
• Yukon

Communities must submit an economic development strategy that is backed up by a local economic development agency capable of running the pilot. Communities must also show that they possess work options for newcomers as well as the financial means to assist them in settling in.