The popular and the widely used Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP), earlier known as Alberta Provincial Nomination Program, is basically a procedure via which the province selects aspirants who may settle on its soils. The AINP is essentially an economic immigration scheme, and devised to improve the province’s overall economic growth & development. It not only assists in drawing trained and semi-trained workers into the region, but it also aids in keeping work-ready aliens already present on the province’s territories.
After a person gets nomination from the province, he can submit an application for the prized Permanent Residency (PR) along with that of the other half, partner, dependent kids or common in-laws, via the Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)—the nation’s immigration and visa organization. The CIC is the last and the ultimate power on the Provincial Nominee petitions. Aspirants can submit a petition for the skilled and semi-skilled choices, through different classes. They can put forward an application for these categories on their own, or via the Employer Driven Class.
Employers-Driven Class
In case a recruiter/firm of the province is powerless to fill an empty position with obtainable citizens, or with appropriate permanent residents, then he can proffer nomination to a worker for the unoccupied opening from outside the Maple Leaf Country, under the class. A person–who gets a permanent employment offer from the recruiter/company–can then go on and put forward an application for what is called a Provincial Nomination Certificate.
The class has three streams:
1) Skilled Worker Class–Any skilled line-of-work, that falls under the “0”, “A” or “B” skill kind levels considered by the National Occupation Classification (NOC), comes under the group.
2) International Graduate Class–Any graduate, who has concluded his post-secondary education from a public funded organization in the Maple Leaf Country, can be picked-up by the recruiter/firm to occupy his vacant place under the group.
3) Semi-skilled Worker Class—Despite the fact that this class is industry specific, the general levels of skill needed are “C” and “D”, and not “0”, “A” or “B” skill levels required for the other two groups.
Strategic Recruitment Class
Different from the “Employer Driven Stream”, under this class, the Province of Alberta offers nomination to a qualified applicant as a permanent worker, as per the province’s specific requirements. There are no requirements whosoever of employment offer from an Alberta employer, for the object of a nomination under the scheme. It has three groups, namely, 1) Compulsory and Optional Trades Class, 2) Engineering Occupations Class, and 3) Post Graduate Worker Class.
Non-eligibility
Nomination via these different classes is not obtainable for individuals from some particular vocations & skills, such as Clergy, Refugee Applicants, Provisional Foreign Manpower living & doing a job in other Canadian provinces, and Live-in Caregivers presently residing in the Maple Leaf Country, etc.
