Basic Requirement

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To be eligible for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot Program, you must meet all IRCC eligibility requirements. You must

 

• have qualifying work experience or have graduated from a publicly funded post-secondary institution in the recommending community

• meet or exceed the language requirements

• meet or exceed the educational requirements

• prove you have enough money to support your transition into the community

• intend to live in the community

• meet community-specific requirements

 

If you meet all of the requirements, you can start to look for an eligible job in the community.

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Work experience

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• You need 1 year of continuous work experience (at least 1,560 hours) in the past 3 years.

• To calculate your hours of work experience

• count the hours worked in part-time and full-time jobs

• The hours must be in 1 occupation, but they can be with different employers.

• The hours must be over a period of at least 12 months.

• These working hours can be inside or outside Canada.

• If you worked in Canada, you must have been allowed to work in Canada.

• don’t count hours you weren’t paid for (volunteering or unpaid internships don’t count)

• don’t count hours when you were self-employed

• Your work experience must include

• most of the main duties and all the essential duties listed in your National Occupational Classification (NOC)

• the activities listed in the lead statement of your NOC

• You can see which duties are involved by searching your job title on the NOC web page.