OINP to re-open its PNP Immigration Stream

Ontario is reopening and expanding one of its components of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) on July 6. OINP’s Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Skill Stream will reopen on this date and will include 13 additional positions located outside of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

The purpose of this component is to help respond to labor shortages in specific demand professions such as agriculture, construction, trucking, or personal support work. Workers inside and outside Canada can apply for this stream.

To obtain a provincial appointment under the component, an immigrant candidate must have a valid job offer and meet other eligibility criteria.

What are the eligibility criteria?

Applicants must obtain a full-time, permanent job offer (i.e. a minimum of 1560 hours per year and no end date). The job must be in an eligible occupation inside or outside the GTA.

The job must correspond to one of the skill level C or D codes of the following National Occupational Classification (NOC) Code:

• Nurses aides, orderlies and patient service associates (NOC 3413)
• Home support workers and related occupations, excluding housekeepers (NOC 4412)
• Residential and commercial installers and services (NOC 7441)
• Transport truck drivers (NOC 7511)
• Heavy equipment operators (except crane) (NOC 7521)
• Construction trades helpers and labourers (NOC 7611)
• General farm workers (NOC 8431)
• Nursery and greenhouse workers (NOC 8432)
• Harvesting labourers (NOC 8611)
• Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers (NOC 9462)

As of July 6, a job offer under the following CNP codes (also levels C or D) will be valid for this stream, as long as the job is outside 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
• NOC 9537 – other products assemblers, finishers and inspectors

Employers have many obligations. For example, they must demonstrate that the person they hire through this component of the OINP is necessary for their business and they must pay them at or above the level of the median salary for the profession.

Applicants for immigration must have at least 9 months of full-time, paid full-time work experience in the profession for which they have received a job offer. They must also have the equivalent of a high school level in Canada (secondary) or more, and a minimum level in English or French language proficiency with a CLB level of 4 or more in each skill. (reading, writing, listening) and speaking).

Among other requirements, an immigrant candidate must demonstrate that he has a valid permit to work in a profession that requires a permit or other authorization in Ontario.

OINP is the largest PNP in Canada because it has the largest population and economy in the country.

IRCC granted Ontario a PNP allowance of 7,350 principal applicants in 2020. In addition, Ontario can appoint 250 temporary foreign workers in qualified intermediate occupations (NOC C roles).

The OINP remained active throughout 2020, including during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). This year, it organized 12 draws of skilled workers and entrepreneurs.

Reference is taken from CIC News