On 18 November, Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial government declared a new immigration pathway. This pathway’s main motive is to hold on to newcomers who all are staying in the territory.
The new immigration pathway, Priority Skills Newfoundland and Labrador, through the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Nominee Program (NLPNP), will target highly educated and highly skilled applicants with work experience in highly reputed industries like technology. This program is looking forward to releasing on 2 January 2021.
This step will look forward to identifying the territory’s labor shortages in several high growth sectors. The new way arrives as a response to employers increasing demands for specialized and experienced workers, the territory disclose in a media release.
Who is eligible for the Priority Skills pathway?
Masters or Ph.D. graduates of Memorial University who promoted in a period of last three years with a degree associated with information and communication technology, ocean technology, healthcare, agriculture, and aquaculture.
Moreover, a specialist with work experience in the given highly skilled high-demand occupations will be examined:
- Software Developer
- Biomedical Engineer
- UI/UX Developer
- Electrical Engineer
- AI Developer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Python Developer
- Dot Net Developer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Security Specialist
- Cloud Specialist
- Bioinformatician
- Computer Network Support
Every person needs to determine their English language expertise by giving any one of the language exams and securing correspondent to Canadian Language Benchmark level 5 or more.
- International English Language Testing System (IELTS),
- Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP).
- Other ways to immigrate to Newfoundland and Labrador
- The NLPNP is branched into five groups: Express Entry Skilled Worker category, Skilled Worker category, International Graduate category, International Entrepreneur category, and the International Graduate Entrepreneur category.
The Express Entry, Skilled Worker category, grants the territory to select experienced workers by Canada’s federal Express Entry system. Selected individuals must be having the job offers in the territory.