Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP)

Alberta's provincial nominee program is known as the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP). An Alberta Provincial Nomination Certificate may be obtained through this procedure for potential immigrants who have the combination of abilities and work experience that the province requires.

The AINP consists of the following immigration streams:

● Alberta Opportunity Stream
● Alberta Express Entry Stream

Streams for entrepreneurs

● International Graduate Entrepreneur Immigration Stream
● Alberta Self-Employed Farmer Stream
● Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa Stream

NOTE: On June 14, 2018, the Employer-Driven Stream and Strategic Recruiting Stream were terminated.

NOTE: From October 1, 2020, onwards, AINP launched a new online platform to streamline the application process for the Alberta Opportunity and Express Entry streams. To access the portal, candidates for the Alberta Express Entry stream must first get permission from AINP. For any applications submitted using the AINP online portal on or after October 1, 2020, there is a $500 processing charge. Applicants who submitted a paper application for the Opportunities Stream and Alberta Fast Entry Stream on or before October 1, 2020, are exempt from paying the processing fee.

Alberta Opportunity Stream

The Alberta Opportunity Stream( AOS) gives the opportunity for you to come to a Canadian endless hearthstone. If you're a foreign citizen working in Alberta and a transnational graduate who has completed their studies at an approved Alberta post-secondary institution this is a stylish option for you.

individualities interested in the AOS should meet the eligibility conditions for the ensuing areas
The AINP will introduce farther changes to the Alberta Opportunity Stream between 2019 and 2021.
Occupancy status and work permit conditions;
Language;
Education;
Work experience in an occupation that isn't part of the ineligible occupations list;
Income position.

International Graduates Of Alberta Post-Secondary Institutions

International students can take this option of the Alberta Opportunity Stream if they have completed their studies at an approved Alberta post-secondary institution and are employed in Alberta on a Post-Graduation Work Permit.

The AINP encourages student applicants to use the AOS if they can show that their training and abilities align with the demands of Alberta’s job market.

Students from other countries should:

● You need to have worked in Alberta for at least six months in a field related to your field of study (this is less than the requirement for other applicants).
● You must adhere to the same minimal linguistic and financial standards outlined on this page.

It is important to note that foreign students with Post-Graduation Work Permits who completed their studies in another Canadian province are ineligible to apply for the AINP. But, if they have a different kind of work permit, they may still be eligible for the program.

Residency Status And Work Permit Requirements

The following residency conditions must be met by applicants to the AOS at the time their application is postmarked and when it is reviewed:

• To be eligible to work in Canada, you must have a current temporary resident status (temporary foreign worker);
• The following residency statuses are ineligible under the AOS:
• Refugee heirs or individualities involved in a civil appeal or junking process:
• Temporary resides abiding or working in other Canadian businesses;
• Foreign citizens abiding or working in Canada without a valid temporary occupant status.
• For a job that qualifies, you need a valid work permit( not inferred status or restoration status).
• A positive Labour Market Impact Assessment( LMIA);
• An LMIA impunity for workers covered under transnational trade agreements, Intra-Company Transferees, or people taking part in International Experience Canada, as determined by Immigration, Deportees and Citizenship Canada( IRCC);
• An LMIA impunity as a Post-Graduation Work Permit( PGWP) holder. The aspirant must
• Have met the conditions for scale from an Alberta Advanced Education- approved credential issued by an Alberta Advanced Education- approved Alberta public and private post-secondary institution.
• Presently be in an occupation related to his or her field of study in Alberta.

Note: aspirants must also be employed in a field applicable to their previous undergraduate degree if they’re accepted and enrolled in a post-secondary instrument program in Alberta on or after April 1, 2019, or graduate field of study outside Canada.

Language Proficiency

You need a minimal Canadian Language Benchmark( CLB) score of 4 in either English or French for each language skill listening, reading, jotting, and speaking in English or French to Apply to the AOS

Still, individualities applying under NOC law 3413( nanny helpers, orderlies, and patient service associates) bear a minimum of CLB 7 in English or French.

Note: On January 1, 2020, campaigners in NOC 0, A, and B occupations will need a minimum of CLB 5 in each language skill.

Education Requirements

At the time of applying for the AOS, individuals should have completed at least a Canadian high academy parchment or original in their country of origin. The loftiest position of foreign education must be vindicated through an Educational Credential Assessment( ECA) from an IRCC-honored association that confirms the education conditions are met.

ECAs don’t need aspirants with a Canadian degree, parchment, or instrument from an honored Canadian post-secondary, specialized council, or secondary institution. ECAs are also not needed from aspirants with work experience that qualifies an individual for the AINP in a mandatory or voluntary trade and who have a valid Alberta Qualification Certificate or trade instrument that’s honored by Alberta internship and Assiduity Training.

A Post-Graduation Work Permit holder applying for the AOS should meet the conditions for scale for an Alberta Advanced Education- approved credential issued by an Alberta Advanced Education- the approved post-secondary institution in the fiefdom.

Note: As of July 10, 2018, the AINP says that an aspirant who has been admitted to an Alberta Advanced Education-approved post-secondary program before April 1, 2019, may be eligible to apply to this sluice.

Note: Starting January 1, 2021, aspirants(banning Post-Graduation Work Permit holders) will be needed to have completed at minimum a high academy position education( original to Alberta norms) to be considered for the AOS.

Work Experience Requirements

Note: ‘ Current occupation ’ refers to the occupation an existent is working in at the time of the operation.

Individuals interested in applying for the AOS must meet the following work experience conditions

• The aspirant should presently be employed in the occupation listed as his or her ‘ current occupation ’ when submitting to the AINP.
• The aspirant must be working in an occupation that matches his or her work experience at the time of applying and at the time the AINP processes the operation.
• To meet the work experience conditions for the AOS, individuals must
• Have at least 12 months of full-time work experience in the ‘ current occupation ’ in Alberta within the once 18 months; or
• Have a minimum of 24 months of full-time work experience in the ‘ current occupation ’ in Canada and/ or outside Canada within the once 30 months
• This work experience can be a combination of experience gained in the fiefdom of Alberta, in Canada( outside Alberta), and/ or outside Canada.

Post-Graduation Work Permit holder.

• Should have a minimum of six months of full-time work experience in his or her current occupation in Alberta within the once 18 months, and

• Should presently be in an occupation related to his or her field of study in Alberta grounded on an approved Alberta educational credential from an Advanced Education-approved Alberta post-secondary institution. Also, if the aspirant has completed an Advanced Education-approved one-time post-graduate instrument, the occupation must be related to his or her former undergraduate or graduate field of study in Canada.

In addition to meeting the time frame conditions, the work experience

• Must have been full-time, for a minimum of 30 hours/ week(part-time work won’t be considered);
• Must have been in the same occupation as the current occupation’ listed in the operation;
• Must have been authorized by Immigration, Deportees and Citizenship Canada and with valid temporary occupant status if completed in Alberta or Canada
• Can not be completed while studying in Canada and doing hutch work placements or externships as part of a study program. *

*Post-Graduation Work Permit holders who have work experience from paid hutch placements as part of a study program at an Alberta post-secondary institution may use that experience as part of the work experience demand. For these aspirants, the work experience should meet the ensuing conditions

• Donated hutch work term must have been full-time ( minimum of 30 hours per week).
• The work experience must be directly related to a Post-Graduation Work Permit holder’s current occupation.
• The work experience must have been in Alberta.

Job Offer Requirements

To apply for the AOS, an aspirant should have a valid job offer from an Alberta employer to work in his or her current occupation. The aspirant must be working full-time for the employer in Alberta. Also, the aspirant must retain the needed licensing, enrollment, or instrument to work in his or her current occupation in Alberta.

The job offer must

• Be for nonstop, paid work, full-time work, defined as a minimum of 30 hours/ week for 12 months or further for an eligible AINP occupation;
• Be inked by the aspirant and the Alberta employer;
• Offer employment for 12 months or more;
• Offer work in the aspirant’s current occupation; and
• Offer work in an eligible AINP occupation for which an aspirant has a work permit that meets the AINP work permit conditions.

Job offers for the ensuing conditions are considered ineligible

• Part-time workers, anyhow of their working hours;
• Independent contractors, business possessors, or temporary agency workers, including individualities listed as Directors, Shareholders, or Agents of the Alberta employer on the Commercial Registry System (CORES);
• Workers who work in Alberta in a place of employment that isn’t zoned for marketable or artificial operations, similar to a home-grounded business; or
• Workers who don’t work on demesne in Alberta, similar to those who work in a “ virtual ” position or serve the employer by telecommuting from a position outside Alberta.

Occupation Requirements

At the time of applying, individuals must be working in an eligible occupation in Alberta that matches their former work experience.
Post-Graduation Work Permit holders with an approved Alberta Advanced Education approved post-secondary credential issued by an Advanced Education-approved Alberta public and private post-secondary institution need to be employed in an occupation related to their field of study in Alberta.

aspirants who have completed an Alberta- approved one-time post-graduate instrument must be employed in an occupation related to their former undergraduate or graduate field of study outside Canada.

utmost occupations under the National Occupational Bracket( NOC) skill situations 0, A, B, C, and D are eligible under the AINP.

Ineligible Occupations List

The AINP provides two ineligible occupation lists for aspirants to the AOS. The first list applies to all aspirants to the sluice and the alternate list applies to all aspirants to the AOS who are on a Post-Graduation Work Permit.

If an aspirant is working on any of the following operations.

NOC	NOC Skill Level	Occupation Title
11	0	Legislators
422	0	School Principals and Administrators of Elementary and secondary education
423	0	Managers in Social, Community and Correctional Services
432	0	Fire Chiefs and Senior Firefighting Officers
651	0	Escort Agency Managers, Massage Parlour Managers
4031	A	Secondary School Teachers
4032	A	Elementary School and Kindergarten Teachers
4154	A	Professional Occupations in Religion
5121	A	Authors and Writers
5133	A	Musicians and Singers
5135	A	Actors and Comedians
5136	A	Painters, Sculptors and Other Visual Artists
1227	B	Court Officers and Justices of the Peace
3223	B	Dental Laboratory Bench Workers
4214	B	Early Childhood Educators and Assistants (only those without certification as a Child Development Worker (Level 2) or Child Development Supervisor (Level 3) through Alberta Children’s Services – Child Care Staff Certification Office)*
4216	B	Other Instructors
4217	B	Other Religious Occupations
5232	B	Other Performers, n.e.c.
5244	B	Artisans and Craftspersons
5251	B	Athletes
6232	B	Real Estate Agents and Salespersons
4411	C	Home Child Care Providers
4412	C	Home Support Workers, Housekeepers and Related Occupations
4413	C	Elementary and Secondary School Teacher Assistants
6533	C	Casino Occupations
6564	C	Other Personal Service Occupations
7513	C	Taxi and Limousine Drivers and Chauffeurs
8442	C	Trappers and Hunters
6623	C	Other Sales Related Occupations
6722	C	Operators and Attendants in Amusement, Recreation and Sport
6742	D	Other Service Support Occupations, n.e.c.
8611	D	Harvesting Labourers
8612	D	Landscaping and Grounds Maintenance Labourers
8613	D	Aquaculture and Marine Harvest Labourers
8614	D	Mine Labourers

Income Level Requirements

NOTE: The Alberta Emigrant designee Program removed the minimal income demand for the Alberta Opportunity Stream, effective November 1, 2018. This change will be applied to all operations issued to the program since June 14, 2018.

communicate the Settlers International to know further about the eligibility conditions for the AINP Alberta Opportunity Stream.

The AINP will introduce further changes to the Alberta Opportunity Stream between 2019 and 2021.

Self-Employed Farmer Stream

This sluice allows individuals with husbandry experience and particular finances to buy and develop a ranch in Alberta to apply for endless hearthstone. Successful aspirants are ranch possessors drivers who plan to live in Alberta to buy and manage their husbandry business.

Eligibility factors- aspirants to the Self-Employed Farmer sluice should meet the following criteria at the time their operation is posted to the AINP and at the time of assessment by the AINP. Meeting this criterion doesn’t guarantee a nomination or endless hearthstone.

ranch operation chops-aspirants must prove that they’ve ranch operation chops.

Evidence of this may include but isn’t limited to:

• Fiscal attestation of a being ranch business
• Attestation of education, training, and work experience
• A proposed business plan for the husbandry enterprise you’re considering in Alberta
• Evidence that a Canadian financial institution is willing to finance your proposed husbandry business

Fiscal criteria- aspirants must be suitable to invest a minimum of CDN$,000 of equity in a primary product husbandry business in Alberta.

Documents must be handed that show a minimum net worth of CDN$,000, or evidence of the capability to pierce an analogous quantum of finances from other sources. Aspirants may be needed to show the capability to invest further than the minimum.

Primary product investment aspirants must validate their investment plans in a proposed business plan.

operations representing the stylish occasion for growth applicable to Alberta’s agri-food targets will be given precedence.

Ineligible aspirants- The following individuals aren’t eligible to apply under the AINP Self-Employed Farmer Stream

• Exile heirs, or individualities involved in a civil appeal or junking process; it isn’t the accreditation of the AINP to intermediate in the civil exile claim, appeal, or junking process.
• Live-in caregivers presently living in Canada.
• Temporary foreign workers working and abiding in a fiefdom other than Alberta.
• Transnational scholars studying in Canada, including scholars doing hutch work placements or externships as part of their study program.

Contact Settlers International to know further about the eligibility conditions of the AINP Self-Employed Farmer Stream.

Alberta Express Entry Stream

This sluice allows the Government of Alberta to nominate eligible campaigners from Canada’s Express Entry system. A successful nomination under this sluice results in 600 fresh Comprehensive Ranking System points.

AINP Selection Process -Express Entry Candidates

International aspirants can only apply to the Alberta Express Entry sluice after entering an announcement of Interest( NOI) letter from the fiefdom. Eligible campaigners will be communicated directly by the AINP through their runner Entry profile.

Only those Express Entry campaigners who admit an assignation, or NOI letter from the AINP can apply for a parochial nomination under the Alberta Express Entry Stream.

The AINP will choose campaigners depending on the tone-declared information in their runner Entry profile.
You’ll admit an NOI if you

• Have an active Express Entry profile in the civil Express Entry pool;
• Have stated an interest in immigrating permanently to Alberta;
• Are working in an occupation that supports Alberta’s profitable development and diversification; and
• Have a minimum CRS score of 300.

In addition, the AINP is more likely to elect campaigners with one or further rigidity factors. The seeker must

• Have a valid Alberta job offer and/ or work experience; and/ or
• Be a graduate of an Alberta post-secondary institution with a valid Alberta job offer; and/ or
• Have a Parent, child, family, and/ or family who’s an endless occupant living in Alberta, or a Canadian citizen living in Alberta.

The below Factors that may drop the chances of entering an NOI letter include

• An Express Entry profile that expires in three( 3) months or lower.
• Work in an occupation.
• On the list of High- pay envelope and low-pay envelope occupations in the fiefdom of Alberta set out on the online Government of Canada

Refusal to Reuse a Labour Market Impact Assessment list:

• On the Alberta Opportunity Stream Ineligible Occupations list; or
• That has a high volume of sessions across all AINP aqueducts.

Contact Settlers International to know further about the eligibility conditions of the AINP Alberta Express Entry Stream.

The following factors increase your chances

This may increase your liability of entering a Request to submit a Business operation If you have one or further of the following rigidity factors.

Profitable Benefits- Can give profitable benefits to Alberta through.

• Job creation
• Profitable sector
• Business position( for illustration, pastoral)
• Business race
• Investment
• Advanced intellectual property
• Cooperation or support from a business incubator/ accelerator, adventure capital, or angel investor

Age- 21 to 49 times

Partner- Your partner or common-law mate has at least one of the following:

• At least 1 time of nonstop full-time employment in Alberta
• Completed at least 2 times of full-time study at a post-secondary institution in Alberta
• A minimal position CLB 5 in English or NCLC 5 in French in all 4 language capacities( Reading, Writing, harkening, Speaking)

Alberta relative- You, or your partner or common-law mate, have one or further of the following cousins living full-time in Alberta father, step-father, mama, step-mama, child, step-child, family, step-family, family, step-family

Ineligibility- You aren’t eligible to apply under IGEIS if

• You have an active nomination that has not expired and/ or is eligible for extension under another AINP sluice. campaigners are only eligible for one AINP Nomination Certificate.
• You have been issued a letter on a former AINP operation that stated you aren’t eligible tore-apply to the AINP for a specified period. However, it’ll be declined, If you apply during the specified period.
• You have had a junking order issued against you by Immigration, Deportees and Citizenship Canada( IRCC) or Canada Border Services Agency. The AINP doesn’t intermediate in the civil exile claim, appeal, or junking process.
• You’re a foreign public living or working in Canada with no valid temporary occupant status.
• Your business is on the list of ineligible businesses below.

Eligible businesses

Business operations that began before submitting an EOI may not be eligible and don’t guarantee EOI pool selection or AINP blessing. It’s your responsibility to ensure your proposed business meets the criteria for eligible businesses. However, there’s a chance your Business operation may be declined If it isn’t an eligible business or doesn’t duly demonstrate a significant profitable benefit to Alberta.

Businesses should have the eventuality for creating profitable benefits for Alberta, as assessed by the AINP. A proposed business must align with the following general conditions to be eligible under the IGEIS

• The purpose of the proposed business must be to make a profit from active or earned income, not unresistant income, through the trade of goods and/ or provision of services.
• The proposed business must misbehave with any applicable civil, parochial, or external legal, nonsupervisory, or licensing conditions that govern its operation. This includes Alberta labor laws, including but not limited to employment norms, occupational health and safety, and labor relations legislations.
• The proposed business should have a physical place of business in Alberta at all times.
• For votes, the power conditions and all other program criteria are the same as for other businesses. campaigners must also give evidence that they’ve entered support from the master franchisor to operate a ballot position.
• You must enjoy at least 34 of the business. You’re needed to live in Alberta and be involved in the day-to-day operation of the business. You may not do this ever, from another Canadian fiefdom or home, or another country and you’re needed to demonstrate hearthstone in Alberta while on a work permit.

Ineligible Businesses

• Any business in violation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Regulations( for illustration, immigration-linked investment schemes or unresistant investment).
• Businesses without a value- add a profitable element, including
• Payday loan, cheque cashing, and affiliated businesses
• Businesses trading in used goods
• Businesses that would be considered unresistant investments and/ or lack active operation, including
• Property reimbursement, investment, and leasing conditioning
• Real estate development/ brokerage, insurance brokerage, or business brokerage
• Coin-operated businesses, including laundromats and auto marshland operations
• Design- grounded or seasonal businesses
• Home-grounded businesses, including bed-and-breakfasts and lodging houses
• Businesses that are part of a race plan. This includes businesses that
• Are possessed and operated by a close relation of the seeker
• Were preliminarily possessed and operated by a current or former AINP entrepreneur sluice campaigners appointees within the history 4 times
• Have changed power in the once 3 times before the IGEIS operation
• Businesses involved in producing, distributing, or dealing pornography or sexually unequivocal products or services, or furnishing sexually acquainted services.
• Any other type of business that by association would tend to bring the AINP and the Government of Alberta into reproach.

Communicate the Settlers International to know further about the eligibility conditions of the Alberta International Graduate Entrepreneur Immigration Stream.

Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa Stream

The Foreign Graduate Start-Up Visa Stream (FGSVS) is a business immigration program for qualified foreign graduates from outside of Canada who want to establish start-up firms and novel ventures in Alberta.

To apply to the FGSVS, foreign graduates should get in touch with one of the following authorized recognized agencies:

Canadian dollars are needed for the FGSVS settlement monies.

Number of family members	Less than 1,000	1,000 to 30,000	30,000 to 99,999	100,000 to 499,999	500,000 and over
1	$8,922	$10,151	$11,093	$12,961	$12,960
2	$11,107	$12,636	$13,810	$16,135	$16,135
3	$13,655	$15,534	$16,977	$19,836	$19,836
4	$16,579	$18,861	$20,613	$24,084	$24,083
5	$18,803	$21,392	$23,379	$27,315	$27,315
6	$21,208	$24,127	$26,367	$30,807	$30,806
7	$23,611	$26,861	$29,356	$34,299	$34,299

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