The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program is a program to entice individuals to look at immigrating to Canada into smaller communities from Northern Ontario through British Columbia.
This program is promoted by the communities. These are smaller Canadian communities or cities that are under 75,000 and are from North western Ontario all the way out to British Columbia.
These can be a group of communities or individual. This is a pathway to Permanent Residence who would like to live in smaller communities.
To qualify for the programs, you need to have the work or education requirements, along with meeting the language requirements and prove you have the funds to settle in the community and also meet any additional requirements that the communities require.
Let’s break this down some
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Rural and northern Immigration Pilot
This program is promoted by the communities. These are smaller Canadian communities or cities that are under 75,000 and are from North western Ontario all the way out to British Columbia.
These can be a group of communities or individual. This is a pathway to Permanent Residence who would like to live in smaller communities.
To qualify for the programs, you need to have the work or education requirements, along with meeting the language requirements and prove you have the funds to settle in the community and also meet any additional requirements that the communities require.
Let’s break this down some
You must have at least 1 full year experience within the last three years. The experience does not have to be continuous but it must
Be in the same occupation but does not have to be with one employer
Can be inside or outside of Canada
If it was in Canada it must be legally acquired hours.
It does not count if it is from self-employment
And hours from volunteering or unpaid internships do not qualify.
Finally, all of the duties in the work must meet the essential qualification in the NOC lead statement.
For international students you are not required to meet the work requirements listed above but you must have
Credentials from a DLI that you attended and must be at least 2 years in length
We’re studying full time during the 2 years
You are applying within 18 months of graduating from the application for PR.
You lived in the community of your studies where you are applying
Restrictions:
French or English course of studies can not make up more then 50% of the education
Distant learning can not make up more than 50% of the studies
And scholarship or fellowship requiring you to return to your country doesn’t qualify
Language requirements are
NOC 0 and NOC A must be a least a CLB6
NOC B must be a CLB 5
NOC C and D must be a CLB 4
Settlement funds.
If you live outside of Canada you must prove you have the funds to settle in Canada (requirements are lower for RNIP than for EE.)
You must also plan on living in the community
To find out what each community require check out their individual requirements
You must register on each individual website and many have job opportunities for their respective areas.
