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Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot is a community-based immigration program. These communities are located in more remote areas of Canada's midwestern provinces, with a small population and severe aging. There is an urgent need to expand the labor force to improve community vitality and promote population growth and social and economic development. The project aims to recruit a large number of skilled workers to immigrate to Canada to help solve the current situation of population loss and labor shortage in remote communities and northern communities in Canada.
To be eligible for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program, applicants must meet all the qualifications required by the Canadian Federal Immigration Service and meet the qualifications of the community.
There are 4 steps to applying for permanent residence under this pilot.
Check that you meet both
Find an eligible job with an employer in one of the participating communities.
Once you have a job offer, submit your application for recommendation to the community.
If a community recommends you, apply for permanent residence.
Each community will also have its own
additional eligibility requirements
job search process
community recommendation application process
This information will be available on its website.
The pilot will launch in participating communities at different times.
If a website is listed as “coming soon,” the pilot hasn’t launched in that community.
From the screenshot above, we can see that there are 11 communities participating in the program, and 8 communities have been developed.
Among them, Ontario has the largest number of communities, including North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay. Among them, 4 communities have opened and detailed requirements have been announced. Two more have been added than in early 2020. One still needs to wait for further details (Coming Soon).
There are 2 in Manitoba and 1 in BC, 1 in Saskatchewan and 1 in Algeria. Among them, two in Manitoba have all been opened, one in BC, one in Alberta, and none in Saskatchewan.
To be eligible for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program, you must meet all IRCC eligibility requirements. You must
have qualifying work experience or have graduated from a publicly funded post-secondary institution in the recommending community
meet or exceed the language requirements
meet or exceed the educational requirements
prove you have enough money to support your transition into the community
If you meet all of the requirements, you can start to look for an eligible job in the community.
You need 1 year of continuous work experience (at least 1,560 hours) in the past 3 years.
To calculate your hours of work experience
count the hours worked in part-time and full-time jobs
If you worked in Canada, you must have been allowed to work in Canada.
The hours must be in 1 occupation, but they can be with different employers.
The hours must be over a period of at least 12 months.
These working hours can be inside or outside Canada.
don’t count hours you weren’t paid for (volunteering or unpaid internships don’t count)
don’t count hours when you were self-employed
Your work experience must include
most of the main duties and all the essential duties listed in your National Occupational Classification (NOC)
the activities listed in the lead statement of your NOC
You can see which duties are involved by searching your job title on the NOC web page.
You’re exempt from the work experience criteria above if you’re an international student who graduated with
A credential from a post-secondary program of 2 years or longer and you
were studying as a full-time student for the full duration of the 2+ years
received the credential no more than 18 months before your application for permanent residence
were in the community for at least 16 of the last 24 months spent studying to get your credential or
A master’s degree or higher and you
were studying as a full-time student for the duration of your degree
got your degree no more than 18 months before your application for permanent residence
were in the community for the length of your studies
You cannot apply as an international student if your credentials are from a program in which
studying English or French made up more than half of the program
distance learning made up more than half of the program
a scholarship or fellowship was awarded that requires you to return to your home country to apply what you learned
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) or
Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC)
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
You must submit your results from a designated language test. These results must be less than 2 years old when you apply.
Find out more about language testing.
You must have
a Canadian high school diploma 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 Canadian secondary school (high school)
The ECA report must be less than 5 years old on the date of your application.
If the ECA report was issued by a designated organization, the original report must have been issued on or after the date the organization was designated.
Unless you’re already working legally in Canada when you apply, you must prove you have enough money to support yourself and any family members while you get settled in your community.
You must prove you have enough money to support any family members you may have, even if they’re not coming to Canada with you.
As a candidate, you must have a genuine job offer to work in 1 of the participating communities.
In addition to the requirements on this page, each community will have their own requirements and job search process. To find a job, you must follow the instructions on their websites.
Once you have a job offer, and meet all the requirements, you can apply for a community recommendation.
The job you’re offered must meet all of these requirements:
The job must be full-time
This means mean you work at least 30 paid hours per week
The job must be non-seasonal
In general, this means you have consistent and regularly scheduled paid employment throughout the year
Your employment is permanent
This means that there is no set end date
The wage must meet or exceed the Job Bank’s minimum wage for your job offer’s National Occupational Classification (NOC).
Your experience must show that you can perform the duties of the job offered
Your job offer must be at the same skill level, 1 level above or 1 level below the NOC that matches your work experience.
Exception: If your experience is in NOC skill level D, then the job you’re being offered must be in the same occupation.
For example:
NOC 0 job offer: work experience in NOC 0 or A
NOC A job offer: work experience in NOC 0, A or B
NOC B job offer: work experience in NOC A, B or C
NOC C job offer: work experience in NOC B or C
NOC D job offer: work experience in NOC D
We’ll review the main duties of your job offer to confirm that it meets the NOC skill level.
In terms of conditions, the immigration pilot project is similar to the Atlantic Pilot Immigration Program AIPP. Local graduates meet certain conditions and can apply without working experience. However, it should be noted that employers also need to obtain approval from the local community economic development committee. Moreover, the requirements of each community are different, and the community will make demands on employers and job offer according to the development of their local economy. Therefore, if you are interested in the project, in addition to meeting the federal requirements, you must also meet the specific requirements of the community.
