Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP)

OINP enables foreign workers, international students, business owners or entrepreneurs from outside of Canada to apply for permanent residence in Ontario. This program highlights below, how Ontario businesses can recruit international talents to fill critical job openings.

1. Overview
2. What you need to know
3. Application process
4. Support for businesses
5. Contact us
6. Related

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The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) is currently accepting applications under the following streams:

• Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Skills Stream
• PhD Graduate Stream
• French-Speaking Skilled Worker Stream*
• Human Capital Priorities Stream*
• Skilled Trades Stream*
• Entrepreneur Stream 

However, the following OINP streams listed below are closed to applications at this time:

• Employer Job Offer: Foreign Worker Stream
• Employer Job Offer: International Student Stream
• Masters Graduate Stream

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* To apply under Ontario’s Express Entry streams, you must have a profile in the federal government’s Express Entry system and receive a Notification of Interest from Ontario.

Overview

The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) is the province’s economic immigration program. It works in partnership with the Government of Canada through Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
Foreign workers, international students and others with the right skills, experience and education apply to the OINP for a nomination.
The OINP recognizes and nominates people for permanent residence who have the skills and experience the Ontario economy needs, and the Government of Canada makes the final decision to approve applications for permanent residence.
For other ways to immigrate to Ontario, visit the Government of Canada’s website.

What you need to know

There are three ways you may qualify for a nomination:

• Employer job offer category: for workers who already have a permanent job offer from an Ontario employer
• Human capital category: for workers who have valuable work experience, education, language skills, and a profile in Canada’s Express Entry system; or for graduate students
• Business category: for entrepreneurs looking to start a new or buy an existing business in Ontario

Employer job offer category

The employer job offer category has three streams. You must have a full-time and permanent job offer from an Ontario employer to qualify.

• Foreign Worker stream: for workers in skilled positions
• International Student stream: for recent graduates in Ontario
• In-Demand Skills stream: for intermediate skilled workers in specific sectors, such as agriculture, construction, trucking and personal support workers

Human capital category

The human capital category has two sub-categories, the international graduate streams and Ontario’s Express Entry streams.

International graduates

To qualify under the Masters Graduate or PhD Graduate streams, you must have a graduate degree from an eligible Ontario university and apply within two years of getting your degree.

• Masters Graduate Stream
• PhD Graduate Stream

Ontario’s Express Entry

To qualify under Ontario’s Express Entry streams, you must have received a notification of interest from Ontario and have an up-to-date profile with your most current work experience, language tests and education in the federal government’s Express Entry system.

• French-Speaking Skilled Worker stream: for French-Speaking skilled workers with the required work experience, education and language proficiency in French and English
• Human Capital Priorities stream: for skilled workers with the required work experience, education and language proficiency in French or English
• Skilled Trades stream: for workers with work experience in Ontario in an eligible trade occupation

Business category

The business category has one stream. You must be an entrepreneur from outside of Canada who is looking to implement a new business idea or buy and grow an existing business in Ontario.

• Entrepreneur stream

Application process

There are three main steps to follow when applying for permanent residence:

1. Make sure you qualify

Once you’ve selected the stream you would like to apply under, make sure you meet all the mandatory requirements for that stream.

2. Apply to be nominated by the Ontario government

Once you’ve chosen your stream, you must apply online, through the OINP e-Filing Portal. It takes between two to three hours to complete the application.
The application cost for:

• the employer job offer and human capital streams is either $1,500 or $2,000
• the business streams is $3,500 per business partner or key staff applicant

We only accept Visa, Visa Debit, Mastercard and MasterCard Debit.
Application processing times vary, read application processing times and nominations issued for more information.

3. Apply to the Government of Canada for permanent residence

If your application is successful and you are nominated by the Ontario government, the next step is to apply for permanent residence through IRCC.
The Government of Canada makes the final decision on who becomes a permanent resident.

Support for businesses

The Business Immigration Services team takes an active role in helping employers find talent solutions with immigration. We are here to help businesses navigate the immigration system to:

• fill labour shortages
• retain international students
• get skilled workers faster

As a designated referral partner under Canada’s Global Skills Strategy, OINP business services can help innovative companies that are scaling-up or significantly investing in Ontario. We offer personalized service that can help businesses get an expedited work permit and labour market impact assessment (LMIA) processing for your highly skilled talent needs.
We provide info-sessions, in-person or teleconference meetings, and dedicated staff for your assistance.
Contact them at: business.immigration@ontario.ca

DO YOU MEET REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION?

You NEED to be nominated to participate!

You must apply for OINP nomination to enable you apply for permanent residence. 

We can match you with the appropriate stream. We can also help you through the applications. 
Please  FILL the CONTACT US FORM on the Top Right Corner of this page, if you need our assistance. 

We can assist you to determine the right stream to pick, by determining your eligibility in any of the available streams. 


We can help you to apply to the perfect stream, and
If you are nominated to assist you apply for permanent residence.