SKILLED WORKER APPLICANTS WITH EMPLOYER SUPPORT

Eligibility Requirements

As a Skilled Worker Applicant with employer support:

You are between 22 and 55 years of age. Your age is assessed as of the day your application for permanent residence is received at the NBPNP Office and you are assigned an NBPNP file number.

You have sufficient English and, or French language ability to fulfill your job duties. You demonstrate, at a minimum, basic language ability. To obtain an objective assessment of your language ability you may be asked to submit an International English Language Testing System General Training (IELTS) or a Test d'Evaluation de Français (TEF). You can use language test results for two years from the time you took the test.

As of July 1, 2012, Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) applicants in National Occupation Classification (NOC) Skill Levels C and D must undergo mandatory language testing and achieve a minimum standard of Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4 across all four categories: listening, speaking, reading and writing, prior to obtaining a Provincial nomination certificate.

Applicants must provide valid results from a language test administered by a designated testing agency. The acceptable tests are:

• the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) General Training;

• the Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP-General); and

• the Test d’Évaluation de Français (to test proficiency in French).

You have the education, qualifications and, or licenses needed to fulfill your job duties. You will provide evidence that you have, at a minimum, been awarded a high school diploma for education completed after junior/middle school and before college, university and other formal training.

You will live and work in New Brunswick.

Your offer of employment is genuine. The New Brunswick company will have been operating for at least one year at the time the application is received at the NBPNP office. You will demonstrate that you have been interviewed and hired by your employer.

You are a permanent full-time employee of a New Brunswick Company. You are expected to regularly work the standard number of hours fixed by the employer for employees in the Occupational Group in which you are employed.

Your job will not have a pre-determined end date. Your job is represented in one of the following National Occupation Classification (NOC) skill levels:

• Skill levels O, A, B

• Skill level C, Skill type 1, 3, 7, 8, 9

• Skill level D, Skill type 1, 3, 7, 8, 9

Applicants in skill level C and D must work for the same New Brunswick employer for at least one year prior to submitting an application to the NBPNP.

Your job is in an area of skill shortage. Your employer must demonstrate that he/she has been unable to find a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada to perform the job duties.

Your job must provide a comparable industry rate of pay. Accommodations provided by the employer will not be considered as part of your compensation package.

Your job complies with New Brunswick employment standards. 

You will submit all required forms and supporting documents. If documents provided in support of Selection Factors are missing, incomplete or not able to be verified you will receive a “0” score for that selection factor.

Immigration Program Officers have a right to request additional information at any time. You score a minimum of 50 points in the selection factors.