Changes to the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities and French-Speaking Skilled Worker streams for Self-Employed Physicians, released by Ontario on 28 January 2025
Changes to the Express Entry Human Capital Priorities and French-Speaking Skilled Worker streams for Self-Employed Physicians, released by Ontario on 28 January 2025
Good day ladies and gentlemen, this is IRC news, I am Joy Stephen, a certified Canadian Immigration practitioner, and I bring to you this Provincial News Bulletin from the province of Ontario. This recording originates from the Polinsys studios in Cambridge, Ontario.
The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) has amended regulations so that applicants to the Human Capital Priorities and French-Speaking Skilled Worker streams can use periods of self-employment to meet the streams’ work experience requirement if they have periods of self-employment in an occupation under one of the following National Occupational Classification (NOC) codes:
NOC 31100 – Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine
NOC 31101 – Specialists in surgery
NOC 31102 – General practitioners and family physicians
Applicants to these streams must decide which of two federal program criteria they would like to be assessed against:
the Federal Skilled Workers Program; or
the Canadian Experience Class
The amendments allow applicants who choose to be assessed against Canadian Experience Class criteria to use periods of self-employment if that experience is in a designated NOC.
The amendments do not apply to applicants under any other NOC. This amendment mirrors recent updates to federal policy.
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