Ontario’s Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream allow foreign workers who meet the criteria of the program to apply to permanently live and work in Ontario.
You must have already created an IRCC’s Express Entry system profile and received a Notification of Interest from Ontario before you can apply the OINP to be nominated for permanent residence. If the province nominates you, the federal government then takes over to make the final decision regarding permanent resident status.
It is our job at Migrating Bird to make sure that you have the required skilled work experience, language abilities and education and all the documentation required to prove it and present it well. Let our team of immigration consultants help you with this and any immigration stream under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program.
You are assessed against the Federal Skilled Worker Program or the Canadian Experience Class.
If your profile is assessed and positively received by the province, you will be issued a Notification of Interest as to possibly inviting you to become a permanent resident in Ontario.
In order to be eligible for the Federal Skilled Worker Program, you must:
- have one year’s work experience gained over a period of at least one year – 1,560 hours in Skill Type 0 or Skill Level A or B of the NOC
- your work experience should be obtained within the last five years from the date of submitting your application to the OINP
- your work experience should be in the same primary occupation as you identified in your Express Entry profile
- Co-op and volunteer experience may not be considered when calculating your minimum work experience
- your work experience may have been gained in Canada or overseas.
In order to be eligible for the Canadian Experience Class, you must:
have one year’s work experience gained over a period of at least one year – 1,560 hours of cumulative paid full-time work experience (or the equivalent in paid part-time work) in Canada in Skill Type 0 or Skill Level A or B of the NOC- Co-op and volunteer experience may not be considered when calculating your minimum work experience
- have obtained your work experience within the last three years from the date of submitting your application to the OINP
- have work experience in one or more of the occupations that you identified in your Express Entry profile
- have work experience in Canada while maintaining legal status in Canada
Both programs require:
- a Canadian bachelor’s, master’s, or Ph.D. degree or it’s equivalent in another country, in which case you need to prove Canadian equivalency with an Educational Credential Assessment report
- English or French language skills at a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) level 7 or higher
- adequate settlement funds for you and your family
- intention to permanently settle in Ontario
Call our team when applying to Ontario’s Express Entry Human Capital Priorities Stream.