Newcomers are now eligible to apply for nomination. Below is the list of new jobs in the in-demand occupations stream of Ontario’s PNP.

On July 4, the Ministry of Labor, Immigration, Skills Development, and Training declared that it has added professions under 35 National Occupation Classification codes to the list of jobs that will be considered when the province issues Expressions Of Interest under the stream. They include: 

  • Shippers and Receivers  
  • Production logistics workers  
  • Dry cleaning, laundry, and related occupations  
  • Railway yard and track maintenance workers  
  • Automotive and heavy truck and equipment parts installers and servicers  
  • Utility maintenance workers  
  • Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers  
  • Material handlers  
  • Other trades helpers and laborers  
  • Railway and motor transport laborers  
  • Public works and maintenance laborers  
  • Aquaculture and marine harvest laborers  
  • Foundry workers  
  • Glass forming and finishing machine operators and glass cutters  
  • Concrete, clay, and stone forming operators  
  • Inspectors and testers, mineral and metal processing  
  • Rubber processing machine operators and related workers  
  • Sawmill machine operators  
  • Pulp mill, papermaking, and finishing machine operators  
  • Lumber graders and other wood processing inspectors and graders  
  • Fish and seafood plant workers  
  • Testers and graders, food and beverage processing  
  • Motor vehicle assemblers, inspectors and testers  
  • Assemblers and inspectors, electrical appliance, apparatus, and equipment manufacturing  
  • Assemblers, fabricators and inspectors, industrial electrical motors and transformers  
  • Machine operators and inspectors, electrical apparatus manufacturing  
  • Assemblers and inspectors of other wood products  
  • Plastic products assemblers, finishers and inspectors  
  • Laborers in mineral and metal processing  
  • Laborers in metal fabrication  
  • Laborers in wood, pulp, and paper processing  
  • Laborers in rubber and plastic products manufacturing  
  • Laborers in food and beverage processing  
  • Laborers in fish and seafood processing  

An applicant’s employment offer must be located outside of the Greater Toronto Area unless the offer is for NOC 75119 – Other trades helpers and laborers. 

These jobs were added following consultations between the provincial stakeholders as well as the Ministry in Fall 2023. 

Other Eligibility Criteria 

There have been many new Jobs In The In-Demand Occupations Stream Of Ontario’s PNP. The Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Occupations Stream of Ontario’s PNP is specifically designed to fill urgent job vacancies throughout the province. These professions include those in agriculture, manufacturing, construction, trades, etc. 

The employment offer must be from an Ontario employer and be full-time, implying a minimum of 1,560 hours a year and 30 hours a week. Jobs within an end date aren’t eligible. 

Moreover, applicants also require a minimum of nine months of cumulative, paid, and full-time work experience in Ontario in a position that carries the same NOC code as their job offer. 

Experience can be assigned over three years prior to the date an application is submitted. 

They also require a minimum CLB score of four in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in either French or English, along with a Canadian high school diploma/ credential. Those with no Canadian education will be required to submit an Educational Credential Assessment.

Lastly, if an applicant’s employment offer is in a licensed profession, they need a license from the appropriate provincial regulatory authority before they apply for nomination.   

About OINP 

Each Canadian territory and province has a PNP. They allow provincial governments to select the economic immigration applicants who are best suited to the local economy and nominate them. This means that the applicant has a much stronger application if they decide to apply to IRCC for permanent residence. 

In 2023, Ontario issued over 16,506 nominations to OINP applicants. Of these, over 463 went to applicants in the Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Occupations stream of Ontario’s PNP. 

In addition, the federal government has increased the number of nominations for OINP to 21,500 in 2024, the highest allocation of nominations obtained by any PNP in Canada. Overall, Canada expects to welcome 110,000 newcomers through the PNP by the end of this year.  

If you seek information on how to begin your Canada immigration application process, you can talk to our NavaImmigration experts at 1800-918-8490, or you can drop us an email at [email protected].