Key Takeaways:
- Candidates with Express Entry who had work experience in one of six tech occupations were invited.
- On October 27, Ontario issued invites to 1,406 Express Entry candidates with professional expertise in technology.
Ontario invited Express Entry candidates who may be qualified for the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream. Ontario must have an Express Entry profile with a Comprehensive Ranking System score between 455 and 467.
Furthermore, candidates must have one year of work practice in one of the following occupations:
- computer and information systems managers
- Computer engineers
- Database analysts and data administrators
- Software engineers and designers
- Computer programmer and interactive media developers
- Web designers and developers
Candidates who cannot demonstrate work experience in one of these occupations will be refused, according to the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) website.
In addition, invited candidates with foreign education may be required to submit an Educational Credential Assessment to the OINP for the OINP to verify that their education is equivalent to a Canadian bachelor’s degree or higher.
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Those who have received an offer now have 45 calendar days to appeal for Ontario’s Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). Those who receive an Ontario nomination will automatically receive 600 CRS points added to their overall score in the Express Entry system.
This boost effectively ensures that successful candidates will receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) in the next round of invitations. This applies to anyone who gets a provincial nomination from any PNP aligned with Express Entry. This is the 2nd Tech Draw of the year in Ontario. More than 1,100 candidates were invited to apply for the provincial nomination in the first draw.
Through its Human Capital Priorities stream, Ontario nominated 1,996 Express Entry candidates last year. Candidates with work experience or job offers as software engineers, computer programmers, interactive media developers, and others received about 20% of the nominations.
Once you’ve decided to immigrate to Ontario, one of your options is to set up a profile in Canada’s Express Entry system.
The Comprehensive Ranking System ranks candidates for Express Entry based on their education, work experience, age, and English or French language fluency. The difference between a provincial nomination and a Canadian immigration application is that a provincial nomination is different from a Canadian immigration application. If you get the provincial nomination from Ontario, you can apply to the federal government for permanent residence.
You are officially a Canadian permanent resident once you have been approved for immigration by the federal government and have completed the landing process.
Source: CIC News
