Ontario Announced New Immigration Pilot And Foreign Tech Worker Stream
12 Apr 2019
Ontario will form the latest immigration stream for technology workers and the most recent immigration pilot initiative to attract highly skilled immigrants to communities which are smaller throughout the province. The Ontario government declared on April 11 for the 2019 budget.
The initiatives are with four focused immigration priorities outlined in the Ontario province’s latest $163.4 billion budget, which was revealed on Apr 11 afternoon in Toronto.
The Province is reacting to the requirements of Ontario’s organizations by bringing the skilled workers they want by improvements to the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program, the budget states.
Through modernization of the O.I.N.P, and in tandem with its other actions, the government will remain to assure that Ontario’s workforce continues with the most highly skilled for the contemporary economy.
New Foreign Tech Workers Stream
To this point, the budget states the government will make a dedicated stream to support the technology sector of Ontario that brings highly skilled workers, though other details were not given beyond this.
The current dedicated stream of tech immigration would support Ontario’s flourishing tech sector in cities such as Ottawa, Toronto, and Waterloo, which have all witnessed notable high-tech job increase in current years.
The O.I.N.P has aimed international tech workers in the past with its Stream of Human Capital Priorities. The stream is associated with the
Canadian Express Entry system, which controls the pool of applicants for 03 categories of Canada’s leading economic immigration
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Federal Skilled Trades Class
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Canadian Experience Class
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Federal Skilled Worker Class
New Immigration Pilot Exclusively to Smaller Communities
The budget states the government will also launch a pilot initiative to explore creative paths to get highly skilled immigrants to the smaller communities throughout the province.
The government told the pilot’s goal will be to expand the advantages of immigration to the smaller communities.
Canada newly revealed a Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot similar to the
Atlantic Immigration Pilot that will assist small or remote communities in territories and provinces outside Atlantic Canada to hire foreign workers.
Increasing In-demand Occupations
Ontario’s current budget also states the government will try to include personal support workers and truck drivers under the professions that are qualified for the O.I.N.P’s Employer Job Offer: Stream of In-Demand Skills.
Among other requirements, the stream enables the O.I.N.P to nominate international workers with a full-time job offer from an Ontario organization in one of its qualified occupations to apply to work and live permanently in Ontario.
National Occupation Classification of Canada classifies eligible professions below the stream as Skill Level C or D.
Entrepreneur Immigration
The last immigration-related change in 2019 budget of Ontario is the government’s commitment to “recalibrate” net worth and investment thresholds for the O.I.N.P’s Entrepreneur Stream.
The O.I.N.P’s 2019 allocation is 6,900, which came short of Ontario’s demand for 7,600 nominations allocation.
The allocation serves a small part of yearly immigration to Ontario, which totaled 137,410 immigrants in 2018.
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