First Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) draw of the year 2022 was held by the Ontario province on January 11. All the Employer Job Offer streams were invited in this draw namely Foreign Worker, International Student and In-Demand Skills. To be invited, candidates needed to have profiles in the Expression of Interest (EOI) system.
The number of invitations sent in this draw; International Student stream – 762, Foreign Worker stream – 264 and In-Demand Skills stream – 58. All the In-Demand Skills stream candidates invited needed to have work experience in the National Occupational Codes (NOC) mentioned below:
In the health and agriculture occupations:
- NOC 3413 – Nurse Aides, orderlies, and patient service associates
- NOC 4412 – home support workers and related occupations, excluding housekeepers
- NOC 8611 – harvesting labourers
- NOC 8431 – general farm workers
- NOC 8432 – nursery and greenhouse workers
- NOC 9462 – industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
Manufacturing (outside the GTA only):
- 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
Immigrants invited to Ontario province
The federal government has given the authority to the provinces and territories to conduct draws to fulfill their economic and labour market needs. Based on these requirements and eligibility criteria, a certain number of invitations are sent to the candidates.
In the year 2021, Ontario province had issued 8,600 nominations. For the year 2022, the Ontario’s immigration minister has asked the federal government to double their allocation.
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Reference: https://www.canadim.com/news/ontario-invites-1084-candidates-under-employer-job-offer-streams/
