Skilled Worker Category

The Skilled Worker Program of Nova Scotia is a component of the NSNP, a PNP administered by the province. The program is designed to help companies to hire international candidates to fill shortages in the labour force.

Through this program, companies who have been weak to fulfill positions with Canadian residents or permanent residents may provide business offers to interested international workers to promote their immigration. This program is an attractive option for foreign candidates and graduated international students with a business offer.

Skilled Worker Category – Eligibility Requirements

To get eligible for this stream, you must follow these requirements for applying quickly: 

• To get suitable for the Skilled Worker program, applicants must have a legitimate job offer from an acceptable company in the province. The job proposal must be from a company with a permanent residency and had active supervision over the past two years to be judged valid. 
• For a job offer to be adequate for this program, the company must describe that they could not find a permanent Canadian citizen to fulfill the position.
• If the job offer is for a profession at NOC rank C or D, the candidate must have already been operating with the company for 6 months. 
• Applicants must determine that they have a minimum of 1 year of full-time job experience in the same profession.  
• If an applicant converses English or French as their primary language and is concerned with a business offer at NOC rank 0, A, or B, they will be excluded from the language test condition. If an applicant speaks English or French as a secondary language, they must confirm language ability proof. 
• Candidates practicing with a business offer at NOC rank 0, A, or B must confirm that language test results are above CLB 5. Candidates applying for a work offer at NOC rank C or D must ensure test results at CLB 4.  
• All applicants applying to this program must show a level of education at a Canadian high school degree or a foreign equivalent.  
• All candidates for this program must muster the required settlement funds as defined by IRCC. This can be explained through their investments or through having a valid offer of a job.
• The applicant should have aged between 21 and 55.

Minimum Requirements For Skilled Worker Category

Requirements
Express Entry Profile	No
Work Experience	Business Management in the province
Language Ability	CLB 7
Education Level	Post-Secondary
Investment	None
Job Offer	No
Connection to the Province	Study Experience

Procedure of Application

• Victorious applicants will be assigned a provincial nomination for continual residency.
• After receiving the nomination, a candidate has 6 months to submit the governmental application for permanent residency. 
• Candidates in this program must finish and submit a paper-based form for permanent residence and present it by mail. 
• Paper-based PNP requests for permanent residency are processed in 18 months.