Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot

The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot is a program driven by community. It empowers smaller communities with the benefits of economic immigration by creating a way for skilled foreign workers who want to work and settle in the territory within the participating communities and acquire permanent residence.

Work Experience:

Have qualifying work experience or have graduated from a publicly funded post-secondary institution in the recommending community. You need 1 year of continuous work experience (at least 1,560 hours) in the past 3 years.

Language requirements:

You must meet the minimum language requirements based on the NOC category that applies to the job offer in the community. This can either be the

• Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB)

The minimum language requirements for each NOC category are

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

Educational requirements:

You must have one of the following

• a Canadian secondary school (high school) diploma or
• a Canadian post-secondary certificate diploma or degree or
• an educational credential assessment (ECA) report from a designated organization or professional body showing that you completed a foreign credential that’s equal to a Canadian secondary school (high school) or post-secondary certificate diploma or degree (your ECA report must be less than 5 years old on the date of your application).

Settlement Funds:

You must show that you have enough money to support yourself and your family after you get to Canada, unless you’re already working in Canada under a valid work permit.
Intend to live in the community

• North Bay ON
• Sudbury ON
• Timmins ON
• Sault Ste. Marie ON
• Thunder Bay ON
• Brandon MB
• Altona/Rhineland MB
• Moose Jaw SK
• Claresholm AB
• Vernon BC
• West Kootenay (Trail Castlegar Rossland Nelson) BC

If you meet all of the requirements you can start to look for an eligible job in the community.