How Ontario’s permanent residency pilot program could help international students

What is the REDI aviator programme and however does it work?

The REDI aviator programme processes applications done the OINP’s Employer Job Offer streams. Participating regions volition person an further 200 nominations, which employers tin usage to connection occupation opportunities successful sectors with precocious request for workers.

“These regions are Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, Sarnia-Lambton, and Thunder Bay, located successful the agrarian bluish Ontario region. If approved, applicants volition person a provincial nomination, which they tin usage to use for PR with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC),” said Kapurthala-based acquisition advisor Gurpreet Singh.

By offering further nominations, the REDI programme volition assistance section employers with recruitment. It besides seeks to assistance these regions turn economically by bringing successful skilled workers. Estimates suggest it could adhd up to 100 cardinal CAD to Ontario’s GDP implicit the adjacent 5 years.

Who tin use for the REDI aviator program?

International students, overseas workers, and those with in-demand skills tin apply. To beryllium eligible, applicants indispensable conscionable the requirements for 1 of the OINP’s Employer Job Offer streams and person a valid occupation connection from an leader successful 1 of the targeted regions. Additionally, they indispensable program to unrecorded successful Ontario, and if the occupation is regulated, they request to beryllium licensed oregon authorised to signifier successful the province.

• Employer Job Offer: Foreign Worker Stream

  • Full-time, imperishable occupation connection successful a TEER (training, education, acquisition and responsibilities) 0, 1, 2, oregon 3 occupation

  • Job indispensable align with the employer’s needs and beryllium captious to their business

  • Wage indispensable conscionable oregon transcend the median wage for the presumption successful Ontario

  • Candidate indispensable person astatine slightest 2 years of applicable enactment acquisition oregon a valid licence if required for the job

• Employer Job Offer: International Student Stream

  • Full-time, imperishable occupation connection successful a TEER 0, 1, 2, oregon 3 occupation

  • Candidate indispensable person graduated from a recognised Ontario instauration wrong the past 2 years

  • Job indispensable conscionable the minimum wage for the position

  • The occupation indispensable beryllium indispensable for the employer’s operations

• Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Skills Stream

  • Full-time, imperishable occupation connection successful an eligible occupation

  • Position indispensable wage astatine slightest the median wage for the relation successful Ontario

  • Candidate indispensable person astatine slightest 9 months of applicable enactment experience, a precocious schoolhouse diploma, and connection proficiency of CLB 4 oregon higher

Applicants tin sojourn Canada’s Job Bank website and hunt for the occupation rubric and NOC codification to corroborate whether the wage meets the program’s standards.

How it could assistance planetary students

The REDI aviator programme gives opportunities to planetary students who person graduated from an Ontario instauration to use for PR successful Canada.

“If 1 has completed a programme astatine an eligible Ontario assemblage oregon university, 1 whitethorn beryllium eligible nether the Employer Job Offer: International Student Stream. This pathway helps planetary students enactment successful Ontario and lend to the province’s growth… By offering a imperishable occupation successful a captious industry, 1 could marque an interaction successful agrarian oregon bluish Ontario, portion securing one’s aboriginal successful Canada,” said Tirath Singh of Pinnacle Immigration, Jalandhar.

He added that the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) allows immoderate provinces successful Canada to nominate individuals for migration based connected their circumstantial labour needs and students indispensable support an oculus retired for specified programs successful different provinces too.