- 1275 Finch Avenue West Unit 406, North York, ON M3J 0L5
- info@immigrationtocanada.com
Get your skills assessed, get matched with a qualified Ontario employer, gain the required work experience and build your pathway to an Ontario nomination and Permanent Residence.
The Ontario Workforce Priority Stream is employer-driven. The right job offer and the right employer are central to the strategy.
We provide A-to-Z support throughout the Ontario PNP process — from initial assessment to nomination and Permanent Residence.
We assess your education, work experience, immigration status, occupation and overall profile to determine whether the Ontario Workforce Priority pathway may be suitable for you.
We identify occupations and employment sectors that fit your profile and may support the requirements of the Ontario pathway.
We help identify employment opportunities with Ontario employers that may meet the applicable employer and job-offer requirements.
Where required, you gain the qualifying work experience in the job-offer position. For eligible recent Ontario graduates in qualifying TEER 0–3 positions, this may be as little as 3 months of consecutive full-time experience.
Once eligible and invited, we coordinate the candidate and employer process and prepare the provincial nomination application.
If Ontario approves the nomination, we continue with the applicable federal Permanent Residence process.
Don’t wait until your work permit is close to expiry or your options become limited. Start building the right Ontario employment and PR strategy now.
A job offer alone does not guarantee eligibility. The position, employer, wage, location, work experience and other program requirements can all matter.
That is why our process begins with your profile and PR strategy first — and only then moves to occupation selection and employer matching.
EverNorth can manage the process from eligibility assessment and employer strategy through OINP application, nomination and the applicable PR process.
Build Your Ontario Pathway From Day One – Not After Your Work Permit Is About To Expire.
The Ontario Workforce Priority Stream is available to eligible skilled foreign workers with a qualifying full-time and permanent Ontario job offer. The stream can cover occupations across all NOC TEER categories, but the applicant requirements differ depending on whether the job offer is in TEER 0–3 or TEER 4–5.
Eligibility is not based on the job offer alone. The applicant must meet the applicable work experience or licensing requirements, language and education requirements, legal-status requirements where applicable, and demonstrate an intention to live and work in Ontario. The employer and employment position must also be approved by OINP.
A Post-Graduation Work Permit holder may qualify if they meet the applicable applicant requirements and have a qualifying Ontario job offer from an eligible employer.
Recent Ontario graduates may also benefit from a specific work-experience option for TEER 0–3 positions. If you graduated from an eligible Ontario institution within the previous three years with an eligible credential, you may be able to qualify with at least 3 months of consecutive, paid, full-time experience in the job-offer employment position, gained within the 12 months before applying.
It depends on the TEER category of the job offer and which work-experience option you use.
For a TEER 0–3 job offer, one option is at least 6 months of consecutive, paid, full-time work experience in the job-offer employment position within the 12 months before applying. Eligible recent Ontario graduates may qualify through the corresponding 3-month option. TEER 0–3 applicants may also have other qualifying routes, including certain prior occupational experience or mandatory licensing.
For a TEER 4–5 job offer, the current requirement is generally at least 9 months of cumulative, paid, full-time experience in the job-offer employment position within the two years before applying.
For the 6-month TEER 0–3 job-offer experience option, yes. The required experience must be in the employment position the employer is seeking approval for — meaning the same occupation, employer and location set out in the job offer. The same principle applies to the 3-month recent Ontario graduate option.
However, TEER 0–3 applicants may have another route: at least 2 years of cumulative paid full-time experience, or the permitted part-time equivalent, in the same NOC occupation within the previous five years, subject to the program rules. Therefore, experience with another employer can be relevant under that alternative route even though it would not satisfy the specific 6-month same-position option.
It depends on which work-experience pathway you are relying on.
Previous experience with another employer does not replace the requirement for the 6-month same employer, occupation and location route. But for certain TEER 0–3 applicants, previous experience may count toward the alternative requirement of two years of qualifying experience in the same NOC occupation within the previous five years.
This is why we assess your existing experience before deciding whether you need to build experience with the job-offer employer.
The employer must satisfy OINP's employer requirements. Among other requirements, the business must generally have been in active business for at least 3 years, maintain a business premises in Ontario where the employee will work, meet the applicable revenue and Canadian citizen/permanent resident employee thresholds, and comply with applicable Ontario employment and workplace-safety requirements.
The employer must use the OINP Employer Portal and obtain approval of the employment position. Depending on the worker's circumstances, recruitment requirements may also apply.
The stream is broad: a qualifying job offer may be in any NOC occupation and at any location in Ontario, provided the applicant, employer and employment position meet the applicable requirements.
The specific requirements change according to the job's TEER category. This is why occupation selection should be based not only on whether a job exists, but also on whether the position fits your experience, qualifications and longer-term PR strategy.
Yes. The employer's job offer must be for a full-time and permanent position in Ontario. The position must also be urgently necessary to the employer's business, meet the required wage level and satisfy the other OINP employment-position requirements.
If you are already working for the employer in the approved position, you are generally required to continue working in that position through nomination and during the post-nomination period until the PR application is granted or refused.
The offered wage must meet or exceed the wage level required for the occupation and the Ontario region where you will work. In general, the offer must be at or above the applicable median wage. A different low-wage threshold may apply to an eligible recent Ontario graduate with a TEER 0–3 job offer.
If you are already working in the position, the offered wage must also be at least equal to what the employer currently pays you in that position. Bonuses, commissions, vacation pay and non-financial compensation do not replace the required hourly base wage.
An LMIA is not itself a general nomination requirement for this stream. The OINP process instead requires a qualifying Ontario employer and approval of the employment position through the Employer Portal.
However, your authorization to work in Canada is a separate immigration issue. Depending on your status and work-permit strategy, an LMIA or an LMIA-exempt work-permit category may be relevant to your ability to work for the employer.
No. A job offer alone does not guarantee nomination.
The employer must initiate the process through the Employer Portal, the candidate must register an Expression of Interest and receive an Invitation to Apply, and both the applicant and employer must satisfy the applicable requirements. The employer's application for approval of the employment position must also be approved before the applicant can receive a nomination.
If your OINP application is approved, Ontario issues a nomination approval letter and nomination certificate, and may issue a work-permit support letter where applicable.
You must then complete the applicable federal Permanent Residence process with IRCC. Under the current stream rules, the PR application must generally be submitted within 6 months after nomination. IRCC makes the final decision on Permanent Residence.
Start with a professional assessment and build the employment and immigration strategy designed around your Ontario PR goal.
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