Skilled foreign workers will soon have new pathways to Canada PR

Canada immigration will launch new immigration pathways on May 6, 2021, that are meant for skilled foreign workers in essential occupations. These include healthcare workers, cleaners, and cashiers.

TFWs in 135 essential occupations can apply for the new Canada PR pathways. Skilled workers at work in Canada outside Quebec will get permanent residency in Canada via the new program.

The new program will be open until November 5, 2021. This will otherwise be until workers are recruited to 20,000 vacancies for healthcare workers and 30,000 vacancies for other essential workers.

French speakers could be eligible for the pathway for French-speaking TFW in essential occupations. The vacancies for this program are unlimited.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this pathway, candidates must:

• Have at least a year’s work experience within the past 3 years in an occupation classified as essential. These are 40 for jobs in healthcare and 95 for others.
• If not a year’s full-time work experience, an equivalent part-time work experience (minimum 1,560 work hours) working in an occupation classified as essential.

Candidates applying under both streams must be working in Canada in any job at the time of submitting the application. Unless the candidate is a medical doctor, he/she cannot be self-employed. The doctor must work in a fee-for-service manner with a health authority.

The candidates applying under these new immigration pathways must be living in Canada on a valid temporary status or must have eligibility for restoration. The candidates are expected to have the intention to immigrate to a Canadian province except for Quebec.

The candidates will need a CLB 4 in all language abilities in French or English. Candidates in the French stream must have NCLC 4 to be eligible.

Besides all these criteria, the candidates must be free of criminal or medical charges and declared admissible to Canada.

The occupations considered eligible by IRCC for Stream A (healthcare workers) and Stream B (essential workers in other jobs) are:

Stream A

• Home support workers, housekeepers, and related occupations – NOC 4412
• Social and community service workers – NOC 4212
• Health policy researchers, consultants, and program officers – NOC 4165
• Family, marriage, and other related counselors – NOC 4153
• Social workers – NOC 4152
• Psychologists – NOC 4151
• Other assisting occupations in support of health services – NOC 3414
• Nurse aides, orderlies, and patient service associates – NOC 3413
• Dental assistants – NOC 3411
• Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment – NOC 3237
• Massage therapists – NOC 3236
• Paramedical occupations – NOC 3234
• Licensed practical nurses – NOC 3233
• Practitioners of natural healing – NOC 3232
• Opticians – NOC 3231
• Dental technologists, technicians, and laboratory assistants – NOC 3223
• Dental hygienists and dental therapists – NOC 3222
• Denturists – NOC 3221
• Other medical technologists & technicians (barring dental health) - NOC 3219
• Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists, N.E.C. - NOC 3217
• Medical sonographers – NOC 3216
• Medical radiation technologists – NOC 3215
• Respiratory therapists, cardiopulmonary technologists, and clinical perfusionists – NOC 3214
• Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists’ assistants – NOC 3212
• Medical laboratory technologists – NOC 3211
• Other professional occupations in therapy and assessment – NOC 3144
• Occupational therapists – NOC 3143
• Physiotherapists – NOC 3142
• Audiologists and speech-language pathologists - NOC 3141
• Dieticians and nutritionists – NOC 3132
• Pharmacists – NOC 3131
• Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating - NOC 3125
• Allied primary health practitioners – NOC 3124
• Chiropractors – NOC 3122
• Optometrists – NOC 3121
• Dentists – NOC 3113
• General practitioners and family physicians – NOC 3112
• Specialist physicians – NOC 3111
• Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses – NOC 3012
• Nursing co-ordinators and supervisors - NOC 3011

Stream B

Major unit groups

Sales and support occupations

• Store shelf stockers, clerks, and order fillers – NOC 6622
• Service station attendants – NOC 6621
• Cashiers – NOC 6611
• Other sales-related occupations – NOC 6623

Industrial, electrical, and construction trades

• Floor covering installers – NOC 7295
• Painters and decorators (except interior decorators) - NOC 7294
• Insulators – NOC 7293
• Glaziers – NOC 7292
• Shinglers and Roofers – NOC 7291
• Drywall installers, Plasterers, finishers, and lathers – NOC 7284
• Tile setters – NOC 7283
• Concrete finishers – NOC 7282
• Bricklayers – NOC 7281
• Cabinetmakers – NOC 7272
• Carpenters – NOC 7271
• Gasfitters – NOC 7253
• Steamfitters, pipefitters, and sprinkler system installers – NOC 7252
• Plumbers – NOC 7251
• Cable television service and maintenance technicians – NOC 7247
• Telecommunications installation and repair workers – NOC 7246
• Telecommunications line and cable workers – NOC 7245
• Electrical power line and cable workers – NOC 7244
• Power system electricians – NOC 7243
• Industrial electricians - NOC 7242
• Electricians (except industrial and power system) - NOC 7241
• Welders and related machine operators – NOC 7237
• Ironworkers – NOC 7236
• Structural metal and plate work fabricators, and fitters – NOC 7235
• Boilermakers – NOC 7234
• Sheet metal workers – NOC 7233
• Tool and die-makers - NOC 7232
• Machinists and machining, and tooling inspectors – NOC 7231
• Supervisors and contractors, other construction trades, repairers, installers, and servicers – NOC 7205
• Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades – NOC 7204
• Supervisors and contractors, pipefitting trades – NOC 7203
• Supervisors and contractors, electrical trades, and occupations in telecommunications – NOC 7202
• Supervisor and contractors, metal forming, machining, shaping, erecting trades and related occupations – NOC 7201

Other installers, repairers and servicers, and material handlers

• Material handlers – NOC 7452
• Longshore workers – NOC 7451
• Other repairers and servicers – NOC 7445
• Pest controllers and fumigators – NOC 7444
• Waterworks and gas maintenance workers – NOC 7442
• Residential and commercial installers and servicers – NOC 7441

Transport and heavy equipment operation and related maintenance occupations

• Air transport ramp attendants – NOC 7534
• Boat and cable ferry operators and related occupations – NOC 7533
• Water transport deck and engine room crew – NOC 7532
• Railway yard and truck maintenance workers – NOC 7531
• Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers – NOC 7522
• Heavy equipment operators (except crane) - NOC 7521
• Delivery and courier service drivers – NOC 7514
• Taxi and limousine drivers and chauffeurs – NOC 7513
• Bus drivers, subway operators, and other transit operators – NOC 7512
• Transport truck drivers – NOC 7511
• Other automotive mechanical installers and servicers – NOC 7535

Trade helpers, construction laborers, and related occupations

• Railway and motor transport laborers – NOC 7622
• Public works and maintenance laborers – NOC 7621
• Construction trades helpers and laborers – NOC 7611
• Other trades helpers and laborers – NOC 7612

Harvesting, landscaping, and natural resources laborers

• Logging and forestry laborers – NOC 8616
• Oil and gas drilling, servicing, and related laborers – NOC 8615
• Mine laborers – NOC 8614
• Aquaculture and marine harvest laborers – NOC 8613
• Landscaping and grounds maintenance laborers – NOC 8612
• Harvesting laborers – NOC 8611

 

Minor unit groups

Mail and message distribution occupations

• Couriers, messengers, and door-to-door distributors – NOC 1513
• Letter carriers – NOC 1512
• Mail, postal, and related workers – NOC 1511

Retail salesperson

• Retail salespersons – NOC 6421

Cleaners

• Janitors, caretakers, and building superintendents – NOC 6733
• Specialized cleaners – NOC 6732
• Light duty cleaners – NOC 6731

Agriculture and horticulture workers

• Nursery and greenhouse workers – NOC 8432
• General farm workers – NOC 8431

Other workers in fishing and trapping and hunting occupations

• Trappers and hunters – NOC 8442
• Fishing vessel deckhands – NOC 8441

Machine operators and related workers in beverage, food, and processing of associated products

• Testers and graders, food and beverage processing – NOC 9465
• Fish and seafood plant workers – NOC 9463
• Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers, and related workers – NOC 9462
• Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing – NOC 9461

Specific 4-digit unit groups

• Laborers in fish and seafood processing – NOC 9618
• Laborers in food and beverage processing – NOC 9617
• Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance, and horticulture services – NOC 8255
• Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors, and specialized livestock workers – NOC 8252
• Other customer and information services representatives – NOC 6552
• Customer services representatives – financial institutions – NOC 6551
• Security guards and related security service occupations – NOC 6541
• Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives, and related clerks – NOC 6524
• Airline ticket and service agents – NOC 6523
• Retail butchers – NOC 6331
• Elementary and secondary school teacher assistants – NOC 4413
• Home child care providers – NOC 4411
• French and French immersion elementary school and kindergarten teachers (the language of instruction must be French) - NOC 4032
• French and French immersion secondary school teachers (the language of instruction must be French) - NOC 4031
• Managers in horticulture – NOC 0822
• Managers in agriculture – NOC 0821

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Note:

NOC – National Occupational Classification

PR – Permanent Residence