RNIP Work Experience Criteria Update
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Policy effect
Amended work experience criteria for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), requiring one year of full-time work experience (or equivalent) in a NOC-listed occupation during the preceding three years, with a specific exemption for licensed medical practitioners.
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… ion and Refugee Protection Act footnote b. Ottawa, September 15, 2022 Sean Fraser Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Ministerial Instructions Amending the Ministerial Instructions with respect to the Rural and Northern Community Immigration Class Amendments 1 (1) Subsection 3(1) of the Ministerial Instructions with respect to the Rural and Northern Community Immigration Class footnote 1 is replaced by the following: Work experience 3 (1) The applicant must have, in the three years preceding the day on which they made their application for permanent residence, accumulated at least one year … of full-time work experience, or the equivalent in part-time work, in an occupation listed in the National Occupational Classification. (2) Paragraph 3(2)(c) of the Instructions is replaced by the following: (c) it must include only work experience that was acquired in the employ of a third party, unless the experience was acquired as a medical practitioner entitled to practise medicine under the laws of the jurisdiction where the experience was acquired; and 2 (1) Subsection 4(1) of the Instructions is replaced by the following: Offer of employment 4 (1) The applicant must have a genuine off …
Canada GazetteCanada Gazette. RNIP Work Experience Criteria Update. Effective 2022-09-23.Open official source
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