Ontario PNP for Nurses and Healthcare Workers

Your Healthcare Career Can Lead to Ontario

Ontario’s hospitals, care homes and pharmacies need healthcare workers, and the province’s new Workforce Priority Stream can give you a direct path to a provincial nomination and permanent residence. If you are a registered nurse, practical nurse, nurse aide, pharmacist, pharmacy assistant or another healthcare worker with a full-time Ontario job offer, this stream may be your route. It also has flexible experience rules: for example, nursing experience can count for a nurse aide job, and pharmacist experience can count for a pharmacy assistant job.

What You and Your Employer Need

Your job offer must be full-time, permanent and located in Ontario, from an employer that has been in business for at least three years. For higher-skilled jobs like registered nurses and pharmacists, you usually need at least six months of recent full-time work in the job, or two years in the past five years, plus a one-year college or university credential and an IELTS General score of 5.5 (5.0 in reading). For jobs like nurse aides, you usually need nine months of full-time experience in the past two years and an IELTS General score of about 4 (3.5 in reading). Self-employed doctors with an Ontario billing number and registration can apply without a job offer.

How to Apply, Step by Step

First, your Ontario employer submits your job offer online and you receive a job offer ID. Next, you register an expression of interest within 30 days, and Ontario scores your profile on your job, wage, experience, language and the region where you will work. If you are invited, your employer must apply within 14 days, and you then submit your own application and fee within 17 days. Finally, once you are nominated, you apply to IRCC for permanent residence, and choosing the Express Entry route adds 600 points to your profile. Emig can also help you find healthcare job openings and prepare a stronger application.

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