{"id":129674,"date":"2023-11-07T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/sinp-expands-existing-work-permit-stream-to-include-279-more-occupations\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T13:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T18:21:34","slug":"sinp-expands-existing-work-permit-stream-to-include-279-more-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/sinp-expands-existing-work-permit-stream-to-include-279-more-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"SINP\u00a0Expands Existing Work Permit Stream To Include 279 More Occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/immigration-saskatchewan-2\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(SINP) is expanding its Existing Work Permit stream to make temporary foreign workers in lower and intermediate-skilled jobs eligible for permanent residency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThrough this expansion, our government is improving worker retention and directly addressing labour market gaps that Saskatchewan employers currently face,\u201d says Martensville-Warman MLA Terry Jenson<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCreating more permanent residency opportunities for displaced Ukrainians and other international workers, is just another way our government is further supporting Saskatchewan&rsquo;s businesses and economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Existing Work Permit stream of the SINP has until now only allowed newcomers in high-skilled occupations and designated trades to be eligible for permanent residency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The expansion of the program on Nov. 1 opens up 279 more occupations in lower- and intermediate-skilled sectors and makes those temporary foreign workers eligible to apply for permanent residency if they have worked in Saskatchewan and meet the remaining program criteria, which include meeting language requirements and having a permanent, full-time job offer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Read More<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/immigration-from-hong-kong-spikes-as-ircc-eases-restrictions\/\">Immigration From Hong Kong Spikes As IRCC Eases Restrictions<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/immigration-from-india-to-drop-as-canada-pulls-out-personnel\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Immigration From India To Drop As Canada Pulls Out Personnel<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/more-immigration-needed-to-resolve-housing-crisis-conference-board-of-canada-says\/\"><span class=\"s1\">More Immigration Needed To Resolve Housing Crisis, Conference Board Of Canada Says<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">Applicants must have an eligible <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/visa-de-travail-canadien-travailler-au-canada\/\"><span class=\"s1\">work permit<\/span><\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/labour-market-impact-assessments-lmias-canada\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Labour Market Impact Assessment<\/span><\/a> (LMIA) supported work permit, a francophone mobility work permit, or, for recently-arrived Ukrainians, a Canadian Ukrainian Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) visa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The SINP program\u2019s expansion was music to the ears of Ukrainians who have fled Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war and come to the safety of Canada on temporary visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe expansion of options for newcomers in today&rsquo;s announcement is very welcome,\u201d said Elena Krueger, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe look forward to continuing our work with the provincial government to enhance opportunities and supports for displaced Ukrainians seeking to build their lives in safety here in Saskatchewan.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Watch video:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XtaImy2wKTQ?si=AHghOGgCVKB38Vm8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\">Saskatchewan is bullish on immigration and has gotten increases for this year and the next two years to its annual allocation of provincial immigration nominees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The province currently has more than 16,000 job vacancies posted on SaskJobs and Jobbank, the federal job-hunting and career-planning website. A total of 112,260 job openings are forecasted in Saskatchewan over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere is no single answer for the labour shortage, now and into the future (but) the expansion to the SINP program is a good first step as it enables us to support our employees in the immigration process while also helping us fill vital positions,\u201d said Brennen Mills, a partner in Saskatoon Fire and Flood.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Saskatchewan Wants To Grow To 1.4m Residents Over Next Six Years<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the wake of the Forum of Ministers Responsible for Immigration in Halifax earlier this year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) agreed to cut red tape in the processing of\u00a0SINP\u00a0nominations and give the province sole authority over assessing a candidate&rsquo;s ability to live in Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The IRCC also agreed to up Saskatchewan\u2019s annual allocation of provincial nominees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am pleased to see that our proposal for a significant increase in our\u00a0SINP\u00a0allocation has been accepted by the government of Canada,\u201d said provincial Immigration Minister Jeremy Harrison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSaskatchewan is seeing record-high population growth numbers and immigration to the province has played a significant role in that. We are well on our way to our goal of 1.4 million residents by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the forum of immigration ministers, Harrison and his counterpart in the federal government also discussed federal settlement funding. The province wants to have control of those funds which are spent to help immigrants settle within Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In July last year, the province put forth its\u00a0<i>Saskatchewan Immigration Accord<\/i>, modelled after a similar deal between Ottawa and Quebec, which contains measures to give the province more autonomy over immigration. Under the accord, Saskatchewan would set its own immigration levels, select skilled immigrants aligned with labour market needs, re-establish a family class immigration stream and gain control over the design and delivery of settlement and integration services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSaskatchewan needs more workers to fill job vacancies in all sectors of the economy,\u201d said Jason Aebig, chief executive officer of the\u00a0Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFederal immigration programs and settlement services are not meeting the needs of Saskatchewan&rsquo;s labour market. We are calling on the federal government to speed up the negotiation process of the\u00a0<i>Saskatchewan Immigration Accord<\/i>, enabling Saskatchewan the freedom to dictate immigration levels and deliver services that best support newcomer retention and integration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program\u00a0(SINP) is expanding its Existing Work Permit stream to make temporary foreign workers in lower and intermediate-skilled jobs eligible for permanent residency. \u201cThrough this expansion, our government is improving worker retention and directly addressing labour market gaps that Saskatchewan employers currently face,\u201d says Martensville-Warman MLA Terry Jenson \u201cCreating more permanent residency&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}