Ontario held its first major selection in 2022
More than 1,000 people were invited.
On January 11, the province of Ontario sent out 1,084 invitations to be nominated by the province under the provincial immigration program. The selection process took place in three categories: international professionals, international Ontario graduates and in-demand professionals.
Invitations and passing grades in the "Expression of Interest" system were distributed as follows:
- foreign professionals — 264 invitations, passing score 38;
- foreign graduates — 762 invitations, passing score 59;
- in-demand professionals — 58 invitations, passing score 11.
All invited applicants must have had a job offer from an Ontario employer.
Additional requirements were imposed on the participants of the in-demand flow of specialists. They had to have a profession in health care, agriculture, or manufacturing. Candidates with the following professions could get a job offer in any locality in the province:
- nurse assistants, orderlies;
- sitters;
- farm workers;
- workers in nurseries and greenhouses;
- harvesters;
- industrial butchers.
Candidates from a number of other professions were only considered if they received a job offer outside of Toronto:
- operators of metalworking machines;
- machining and forging machines;
- machine operators;
- other machine tool operators;
- operators in chemical production;
- Plastics machine operators;
- woodworking machine operators;
- operators of industrial sewing machines;
- Food and beverage processing operators;
- assemblers, fabricators, electronics testers;
- machine assemblers and inspectors;
- industrial painters;
- assemblers and finishers.
To increase your chances of receiving an invitation from Ontario, keep an eye on history of immigration selections.
