Currently Ontario Provincial Nomination Program (PNP) can nominate 6,650 applicants every year. As the demand for skilled workers has increased, Ontario is seeking to increase its allocation to 13,300 by 2020.

As the actual labour needs in the province has been increasing by leaps and bounds, the present allocation does not reflect this need and has fallen far short of meeting the needs of the employers, which has inversely had a negative impact on the growth and sustainability of businesses in the province. This year the ‘Human Capital Priorities Stream’ has been used to mitigate the shortage of skilled workers in the IT sector.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) sets all the provinces allocations in the PNP according to the immigration annual admission target. The admission target for this year is to issue 61,000 permanent residence visas; next years (2020) target is slated to be 67,000. However, it is worth mentioning that Ontario receives the largest chunk of the allocation from the rest of the provinces and territories.

Do you have questions about the PNP process, contact JM Immigration at www.onecanadavisa.com and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

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