Some 20 percent of occupations are regulated in Canada to protect the health and safety of Canadians (e.g. nurses, engineers, electricians, etc.).

If you belong to any of the regulated occupations and want to work in such occupations in Canada, you need to obtain a license from a provincial regulatory body. Licensing requirements often include education from a recognized school, Canadian work experience and completion of a technical exam. The applicant is responsible for the fees for such exams, which can be considerable. Final assessment by the provincial authority can only be completed after you are in Canada with permanent residence status.

For more information on regulated occupations and foreign credentials recognition, please visit www.cicic.ca. For non-regulated occupations, recognition and qualification requirements are normally set by the employer.

The province of New Brunswick in Canada needs foreign Skilled Workers. This need is made more critical with a modest population growth and an aging population in the province which saw its population increase by only 0.1 per cent for the statistical year of 2006-2007.
If you are a Skilled Worker, consider immigrating to the province of New Brunswick under it provincial nominee program (the NB-PNP).  To be considered for nomination by New Brunswick, applicants must have a guaranteed job offer in their intended occupation in New Brunswick .
Criteria:
To be considered for immigration under the New Brunswick Provincial Nominee Program, you must score a minimum of 50 points.
It is also mandatory that you have a permanent, full-time job offer from an established New Brunswick company. The job must satisfy provincial employment standards and offer comparable rates of pay in the industry. Employers must demonstrate that they are having difficulty recruiting workers with such skills in the local job market, and usually the skills offered by the potential immigrant are not readily available in New Brunswick labour supply.

One of the main conditions of the NB-PNP is that you must make a commitment to settle permanently in New Brunswick and are required to sign a declaration stating your intention to live and work in this province. Provincial Nominees are likely to see their application for immigration to Canada fast-tracked.

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The Ontario Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) allows Ontario to match its labour market needs with the skills of would-be immigrants.

At this stage, the PNP is employer-driven.  That means, as a foreign national interested in immigrating to Canada, you would need have been offered a job offer that has been approved by the provincial nominee program office in Ontario.  But once a qualified foreign worker has been nominated by the province, his application would be fast-tracked by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).

The Ontario PNP currently has two categories:

1]  Employer Category :

a) helps employers to fill labour shortages in 20 specific occupations in the health, education, manufacturing and construction sectors
b) “International Student stream” of the Employer Category retains qualified students in Ontario by enabling Ontario employers to hire them permanently.

2] Multinational Investor Category
- for companies making significant investments in the province to bring in key employees who will contribute to the long-term success of the investment.
This category  supports new and significant investments in the province that will generate jobs with the start-up or expansion of Ontario-based operations.

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The province of Manitoba achieved the highest annual immigration rate in Canada as a record number of newcomers settle there, Statistics Canada reported yesterday.

In recent years, Manitoba has been recruiting immigrants to avert a predicted labour shortage. As a result, more than 50,000 newcomers settled in the province between 1999 and 2006. The province plans to boost immigration levels even more over the next decade.

By 2025, Manitoba will depend solely on immigration for population growth with declining birth rates and an aging population.

“We need to have a dynamic immigration program if we’re going to continue to grow Manitoba and grow our economy.” Labour and Immigration Minister Nancy Allan said in an interview.

September’s Statscan report found that immigrants who settle in Manitoba have been fortunate – they tend to get jobs more quickly and easily than those in the rest of the country. To support new immigrants, funding for settlement services, such as language, interpretation and intercultural training programs in the province has more than doubled in the past year and a half.

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Source: Globe and Mail

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You may be able to qualify for the MPNP -B, which will help to fast-track your application for permanent residence to the province of Manitoba.  Please review the MPNP-B requirements below to see if you qualify:

*  Minimum personal net worth of CDN$350,000.
*  Minimum amount of equity investment in Manitoba of CDN$150,000.
*  Demonstrated business ownership experience or
- a minimum of 3 years experience in a senior management role of a successful company. In a partnership situation, the applicant
must have a minimum of 33 1/3 shares and play an active management role in the business.
* Conducted an exploratory visit to Manitoba to investigate business opportunities and Manitoba’s quality of life for a minimum of 7
days.
* Following approval of your application you will be required to make a $75,000 cash deposit to the Government of Manitoba,
guaranteeing the establishment or purchase of a business in Manitoba. The cash deposit will be refunded to you when the
investment is made, and the intended business is undertaken as outlined in your application.

Important: Qualified  business people from around the world who have been recruited and nominated by the province of Manitoba must have the intent and ability to move to Manitoba and establish, purchase a business or become partners in an existing business.

>  Contact our licensed immigration consultants to find out more about this program or other PNPs.

Source: Government of Manitoba

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Good news for eligible foreign nationals hoping to get fast track processing  of their  permanent resident applications  if they intend to reside in Nova Scotia.

Under a new immigration agreement between Nova Scotia and Ottawa signed Wednesday in Halifax:

a) the limit of 400 nominees per year has been removed

b) nominees become eligible for a temporary work permit from a Canadian visa office once they have a letter from the province that outlines their employment and nomination. Thus, nominees can start working immediately while the federal government processes their applications for permanent residency

“This will help ensure that by 2010, we will have reached our target of 3,600 newcomers annually,” Immigration Minister Carolyn Bolivar-Getson said at the signing ceremony.

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Source : The Chronicle Herald

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Since spring 2007, Ontario’s employers have been obtaining help in filling labour needs through a new pilot Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). The pilot PNP will enable Ontario to match the skills of prospective immigrants to the needs of its labour market.
The pilot PNP is expected to benefit Ontario employers and multinational corporations investing in Ontario.

Ontario’s pilot Provincial Nominee Program has two categories:
Employer Category:

* Allows eligible Ontario employers to fill labour needs in 20 specific occupations in the health, education, manufacturing and construction sectors.
* Employers apply to the program.
* Employers can recruit qualified individuals currently outside Canada or inside the country, including international students who have completed college or university studies in Ontario related to one of the occupational fields.
* Applicants in this category will account for 90 percent of nominations.

Multinational Investor Category:

* For companies making significant investments in the province to bring in key employees who will contribute to the long-term success of the investment.
* Applicants in the multinational investment category will account for approximately 10 per cent of nominees.

For both categories, employers apply to the program to have positions approved.  Once positions have been approved, employers bring forward prospective nominee applicants.  Nominee applicants must have the relevant education, training and experience required for the pre-approved positions.
Successful nominees will receive permission to work in Ontario and they, along with their family members, will be nominated by the provincial government to have their application for permanent residency fast-tracked by the federal immigration department.

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Source: Government of Ontario

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The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) will begin a study that will forecast the state of the Canadian labour market by 2012, called the ICTC Outlook 2012-2015 on Human Resources in the ICT Labour Market. The ICTC Outlook report also seeks to determine how foreign trained IT professionals can provide expertise in offshore project management.

For example, an immigrant from India with proper training and orientation can help a Canadian business manage an offshore project in India, especially where cultural and communication challenges may occur.

IT expertise that are particularly in demand these days, include project management, IT risk, .Net and business analysis, and is fairly certain such jobs would continue to be a need in the market in the long-term.

Source: IT World Canada

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Canada needs to take a fresh approach to immigration if it wants to avoid worsening labour shortages, the federal finance minister has been told.

Attracting and retaining skilled workers from abroad was a key issue at a private, invitation-only forum held near Ottawa last week with Jim Flaherty and Canadian business leaders and academics. More than two dozen people from all walks of Canadian life – universities, big banks, Bay Street, authors and environmentalists – met for two days in Merrickville in Eastern Ontario.

“There were lots of ideas … relating to openness, in terms of mobility within Canada …,” Flaherty said in a telephone interview. One way of attracting and retaining workers is to provide incentives for non-Canadian students to enter Canadian universities. Many are staying in Canada, and joining the workforce, after completing their education.

Source: The Canadian Press

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If you as a Canadian employer are facing labour shortage, we as immigration professionals suggest that you find your manpower through these avenues as well :

1. Student work permits

Student work permits allow foreign students at approved institutions to work off-campus. Under the regulations, foreigners studying in Vancouver could take a semester off and work full-time.

2. Spousal work permits

Spousal work permits granted to the spouses of students and certain skilled workers.

3. Hire Foreign Nationals on a Work Permit

Most work permits require a Labour Market Opinion (LMO). A LMO is an opinion issued by Service Canada on whether hiring a foreign worker would negatively affect the Canadian labour market.

For work permits that require a LMO, an employer must apply for the LMO and have the job offer confirmed before the potential employee can apply for the work permit. This process can take anytime from 5 to 12 months. (Note: some high demand occupations take less time as they have been pre-approved at the national level and do not require an LMO application).

Advice for Canadian Employers

To deal with potential and current backlogs of LMO applications at Service Canada, employers who need foreign workers in the coming months should file their applications as early as possible to avoid delays.

> Employers in Canada who need immigration services:
Contact us now for assistance with Labour Market Opinion, the Provincial Nominee Program, Work Permits, Intra-company transfers, and other schemes under NAFTA, GATS, and CCFTA. (see right panel for details).

> Foreign nationals wanting to immigrate to or work in Canada:
We can assist you in applying for permanent residence or obtaining your work permit if you meet the eligibility requirements. Contact us now (see right panel for details).

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