Hi everyone, It's me again so if you haven't heard about me before my name is
Marilene Quintana, I'm a regulated Canadian immigration consultant and
today we are going to talk about the rural northern pilot program but before
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very happy to reply to you so let's start new program available for
a pilot project for two years the name is Rural Northern Pilot Program
and it is a very very great program with great eligibility requirements with few
cities participating in the program, so I will start talking about the cities we
have the five cities participating in Ontario two cities participating in BC
Two in Manitoba one in Saskatchewan and one in Alberta
check out the names of the participating cities in Ontario we have North Bay
Sudbury, Timmins, sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay in Manitoba we have Brandon and
altona in Saskatchewan we have Moose Jaw in Alberta we have Claresholm and in BC
we have Vernon and West Kootenay that are composed by few cities together
trail Castlegar, Rossland and Nelson. To qualify you have two options 1. Have a
job offer from an employer here 2. Study here in the participating city in a
program of at least two years so you can qualify upon graduation for the first
option which is obtaining a job offer in order to assist you to find that option
every city is creating a specific a website with a list of employers so you
can apply for the positions through that website
we are going to live down below here the information that contains the pages
that are already available for each city so you can preview specific community
requirements and also the list of employers that are participating in the
problem besides having the job offer there is also additional requirements
that you must consider for example having one year of related experience in
the position that were able to obtain job offer for education you must have at
least comparable to high school level so you can have the high school from your
home country you just need to do an assessment to confirm that's equivalent
to a high school in Canada you are not required to present for example bachelor
degree just high school it is enough to comply with requirements and foreign
languages we have three tiers, if you are coming for a position that's entry
level position what we call NOC C or D you are just required to present CLB 4
CLB 4 is equivalent to lower intermediate level so it's very
very easy to have this level if you studied once in your life you have just
to catch up a little bit and probably you'll be enough to have the
qualifications required if we're coming for an NOC B position which is usually a
technical position can be in construction can be a Supervisor
position for example you are required to have CLB 5, it is a little bit higher it's
like an intermediate level usually people that have studied in English even
that long time ago can brush it up and obtain the level 5 easily without many
concerns and only if you have a job offer
NOC 0 or NOC A, then you are required to have a CLB 6. Just for you guys to have
an idea CLB 6 on ielts it is equivalent to 5.5 so it is not a
very difficult level as well so CLB 5 is obtaining between 4.5 and 5 and Ielts
CLB 6 is equivalent to 5.5 in Ielts right and CLB 4 it is score obtaining score
4 in IELTS exam so it's not like very difficult which is great
and if you chose to come to Canada and study here you can waive the requirement
of having one year of related experience so once you graduated here in a
post-secondary education program of at least two years and you have lived in
that community already you have to comply with all the other requirements
but it don't need to comply with the work experience requirement in certain
ways is a way to make sure that what you study in Canada you are going to be able
to transition to permanent residency because the program requirements are
very accessible which means it is very unlikely that you cannot obtain the
success that you require. It is also important to say that for both the job
offers stream or the international graduate stream you must present
settlement funds meaning you must present that have enough money to
support your family according to the number of family members in your family
for example single it is about thirteen thousand couples about sixteen thousand
and for a couple with one child would be close to nineteen thousand and then
increases according to the number of family members in your family okay
this money can be available even back home as long as we can present a
conversion rate and show that the equivalent amount in Canadian dollars
would be according to the requirements of the program. Needless to say the
program was created to develop these communities so they expect more people
to live there to make a living there and because of that you must present
your intention to live in that community of course once you have a job or if I
study you're somehow already presenting ties to that city but in our immigration
application is important to also demonstrate that you wanted to stay
there want to prosper there i want to remain there. It does not mean you cannot
move out you can you always have the free
to go somewhere else is not a problem however your intention at the time of
application must show they'll have the intention to reside there it is very
important to say that the communiques may present some specific requirements
for you to participate and be eligible to apply in the problem so once you
choose the city it is very important to observe the specific community
requirements as well in my opinion the Rural Northern Pilot Program, it is a
great option because it is an additional pathway for you to pursue so if you are
considering for example coming to BC you can't pursue the federal program you can
still pursue the provincial program but now if you go to Vernon for example
that's one of the cities participating you can ask consider one more option to
apply which is the Rural Northern Pilot program so once increase the options the
chances of success meaning the chances of transitioning to permanent residency
it is higher, that's why it is so great to share these good news because
we are helping Canada to prosper when you bring people to smaller cities and
people also have more opportunity to achieve their goals. One very important
thing that I wanted to say is that when we say rural area or cities
participating in the rural program a lot of people get scared thinking that oh my
god the city's super small or doesn't have infrastructure or are we going to
live in a farm for example guys in Canada it is not like that if you go to
Vernon for example city that I am glad to know with my own eyes it is a
city that has a lot of infrastructure for example they have hospitals
supermarket available like big stores you can have everything that you need
very close by it's not like in some countries that when you talk about the
the village or the rural area you have limited access to a lot of good services
and some times have to travel a few hours by car
or by another mean to reach to certain things here in Canada it's not like that
so you can secure that this cities also have a lot of good infrastructure for
you to live with your families so don't worry about it okay so that's all for
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