Atlantic province nominated more than 1,400 immigrants in
2017
Nova Scotia says its Provincial Nominee Program nominated a
record number of immigrants in 2017.The Atlantic Canada province nominated more than 1,400
people through the Nova Scotia Nominee Program (NSNP), which accepts
applications under five immigration streams.
Those five streams are:-
- · Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry
- · Nova Scotia Experience: Express Entry
- · Skilled Worker
- · Entrepreneur
- · International Graduate Entrepreneur
One of the NSNP’s most active components was Category B of
the NSNP’s Nova Scotia Demand: Express Entry stream, which opened to
applications three times in 2017 and reached its intake limit quickly each
time.
Applicants to this popular first-come, first-served
immigration category do not need a job offer. However, they do need at least a
year’s paid work experience in one of Nova Scotia’s opportunity occupations, as
well as a profile registered in the federal Express Entry system.Nova Scotia says another 200 immigrants arrived in Nova
Scotia in 2017 along with their families through the Atlantic Immigration Pilot
Program (AIPP), an innovative, region-based immigration partnership established
in 2017 between the federal government and the governments of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.In all, Nova Scotia says it welcomed more than 4,000
newcomers in 2017, down from a 70-year high of nearly 5,500 in 2016 that
included 1,500 Syrian refugees.\
“Helping newcomers immigrate and build lives here in Nova
Scotia is a priority for the department and its settlement partners,” said Nova
Scotia’s Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab in a statement on the 2017
numbers. “[Immigration] is key to growing the province and its economy and I
look forward to continuing this work in [2018].”
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