Once the employer’s positions are endorsed, foreign worker(s) identified by the employer can apply directly to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for permanent residency. The foreign worker can also get a temporary work permit while waiting for permanent residency.

To have a position endorsed, an employer must:

• Demonstrate that efforts to hire locally have been unsuccessful
• Recruit a foreign worker
• Provide a valid, full-time, non-seasonal job offer co-signed by the foreign worker
• Provide an individualized settlement plan co-signed by the foreign worker
• Complete mandatory onboarding training and, if required, intercultural competency training

Candidate:

Language

• Candidates with NOC 0, 1 or 2, 3  job offers must have a minimum language level of Canadian Language

Benchmark 5 Education

• Candidates with NOC 0 or 1 job offers must have a minimum one-year Canadian post-secondary program credential, or equivalency, demonstrated by an Educational Credential Assessment

Work Experience

• Candidates with a NOC 0 job offer must have accumulated 1 year of work experience at NOC 0, 1, 2,3  or 4 in the last 5 years.

Eligible provinces

• New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia
•  Prince Edward Island 
• Newfoundland and Labrado