Canada immigration news: Manitoba is a great place to seek permanent residence through the economic immigration programs. Given the Prairie province’s unemployment rate is currently the lowest in Canada and it has almost fully replaced all the jobs it lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We are focused on Manitoba’s recovery, and budget 2021 set aside nearly $1.2 billion for the ongoing COVID-19 response and to prepare the province for future economic shocks and challenges,” said Scott Fielding, the province’s finance minister, in late September.
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“Although our focus is to continue to protect Manitobans through the ongoing pandemic, we have made a commitment to once again return to balance within the next eight years.”
In the first nine months of this year, Manitoba welcomed 10,725 new permanent residents, up almost 24.3 per cent over last year’s total number of new permanent residents, 8,630.
Despite that rebound, Manitoba’s immigration levels are still below what they have been in recent years.
In 2019, the last full year before the arrival of the pandemic in Canada, the province welcomed 18,910 new permanent residents. The last time Manitoba saw as low a level of immigration as it is currently experiencing was in 2017 when it saw the arrival of 14,705 new permanent residents.
Aside from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its travel restrictions and border closures, immigration to Manitoba has been climbing steadily upwards over the past several years.
The province’s immigration levels seesawed from 2015 through to 2017 with 14,900 new permanent residents in 2015, then rising almost 12.9 per cent to hit 16,830 in 2016, and then dipping back down to 14,705 in 2017.
Since then, though, Manitoba’s levels of immigration had been on an upward trajectory, rising 3.5 per cent to hit 15,225 in 2018 and then rising again by almost a quarter the following year.
Manitoba selects candidates for immigration based on its economic needs through four streams of the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP):
The Skilled Worker in Manitoba Stream prioritizes candidates with a strong attachment to Manitoba, with two pathways, the Manitoba Work Experience and Employer Direct Recruitment pathways.
The Skilled Worker Overseas Stream, which includes both a dedicated federal Express Entry pathway and a direct provincial pathway, prioritizes those with close family connections in Manitoba who also have the language proficiency, training and experience to find jobs quickly.
International Education Stream
The International Education Stream is dedicated to international graduates from Manitoba colleges and universities. Under this stream, candidates are no longer required to work for six months in their field before applying for an MPNP nomination.
There are three pathways under this stream: the Career Employment; Graduate Internship, and; Student Entrepreneur pathways.
The Business Investor Stream is aimed at qualified international business investors and entrepreneurs and includes two pathways, one for entrepreneurs and the other for farm investors.
The MPNP’s aim is to be flexible to Manitoba’s labour market and broader economic priorities. Those priorities are communicated to candidates via a regularly updated list of In-Demand Occupations.
The current list of in-demand occupations in Manitoba is broadly divided into categories based on National Occupational Classification (NOC) codes:
Those in-demand occupations are:
Business, Finance and Administration
NOC Occupation Title
Natural and Applied Sciences and Related
NOC Occupation Title
Health
NOC Occupation Title
Social Science, Education, Government Service and Religion
NOC Occupation Title
Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
NOC Occupation Title
Sales and Service
NOC Occupation Title
Trades, Transport and Equipment Operators and Related
NOC Occupation Title
Unique to Primary Industry
NOC Occupation Title
Unique to Processing, Manufacturing and Utilities
NOC Occupation Title
The provincial government also considers two other groups of occupations as in-demand outside of the Manitoba Capital Region, the greater Winnipeg area.
Those are:
NOC Occupation Title
The MPNP issues periodic Invitations to Apply (ITAs) through its Expression of Interest system and Notifications of Interest (NOIs) to candidates in the Express Entry pool, allowing them to apply for nomination under one of the targeted streams. The details and methodology used are published after the draws are done.
Express Entry Applications Processed By Federal Government
Processing times are divided into two periods: how long it takes for the province to issue the nomination and then how long it takes for the permanent resident visa to be processed and issued.
Manitoba’s processing times currently range from 60 to 90 days for most streams.
The Express Entry Skilled Trades applications are being processed within 30 to 60 days. The Business applications’ processing times depend on the complexity of each file.
The Express Entry process is simple.
Under Express Entry, candidates score Comprehensive Ranking System points for core factors such as age, education, work experience and language ability.
At the federal level, IRCC currently processes provincial non-Express Entry nominee applications within 15 to 19 months. For the Express Entry streams, the general average of six months applies.
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